Yusuf Huraira has complete vision loss, which means he’s never had the experience of drawing with a pen. He has had to rely either on Braille, or on his teachers or fellow students to help him.
So many in our country are shocked at the mention of photography by the blind, they cannot seem to wrap their head around the concept. Why and how would a blind person take a photograph? Like most photographers, persons with blindness too have been drawn to photography out of a curiosity to explore the world through images.
There is need for more advocacy to ensure people with visual impairment are not discriminated in the labour market and social protection programmes for them to avoid begging culture.
The appeal was made at a news conference organised by Rwanda Union of Blind in Kigali, last week.
Dr Patrick Suubi, legal representative of the Union, said employers need to give a chance to visually impaired people to demonstrate their ability.
Blind and visually-impaired people in the country can now read any printed Nepali characters using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, which was launched on Monday.
The software, developed by two IT experts from the Kathmandu University (KU) for the Nepal Netra Joyti Sangh in financial support of the Australian government, was launched by Australian Ambassador to Nepal, Peter Budd, amid a function.
"My teacher is so near to me that I scarcely think of myself apart from her." - Hellen Keller
Mark Twain once called a lady ‘The Miracle Worker’. She was Anne Sullivan, the teacher and the lifelong companion of author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Keller. Sullivan was herself visually impaired and had a troubled childhood. But what Sullivan achieved was remarkable. She was the force behind one of the most influential women of the 20th century.
By Anoushka Mathews
Visually impaired people from India are exploring a visual art form like photography. Here’s to the techniques that guide them and the passion that motivates them.
So many in our country are shocked at the mention of photography by the blind, they cannot seem to wrap their head around the concept. Why and how would a blind person take a photograph? Like most photographers, persons with blindness too have been drawn to photography out of a curiosity to explore the world through images.
By Anoushka Mathews & Shruti Pushkarna
With the new batch set to begin their academic session in Delhi University, visually impaired students of Miranda House will find it easy to navigate their way around campus using the recently installed digital talking signages by the college’s enabling unit.
Modern College, Ganeshkhind, Pune* (Opp. Pune Uni. Gate) has organised "JOB FAIR" in collaboration with *Skill Development Department of Government of Maharashtra* at Modern College campus.
Date – 23rd Aug 2017.Wednesday.
Time - 9 am to 5 pm
Place - Modern College of Arts , Science and Commerce, Ganeshkhind , Pune-411016
Come along with your documents.Interview will be conducted on the spot. Offer letters will be also given on spot.
Documents required as per your qualifications.
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*Please come with your Bio-data /C V.
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Kullu, August 20
The District Red Cross Society organised a special eye camp for visually impaired children at the Regional, Hospital, Kullu today. The society has taken a special initiative in collaboration with the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), Health Department, Indira Gandhi Medical College Administration and the Social Justice and Empowerment Department.
An overview of the Eclipse Soundscapes Project, a Cambridge, MA based initiative of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and NASA's Heliophysics Education Consortium by Kelsey Perrett.
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It is the duty of every institution to extend a helping hand to disabled persons, the Supreme Court said on Friday.
The observation by the apex court came while hearing a thalassaemia patient’s plea claiming that she falls under the category of persons with benchmark disability as prescribed under the provisions of the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar directed the Chhattisgarh government to constitute a medical board to ascertain whether the petitioner, Sruchi Rathore, would fall under the ambit of the Act.
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BENGALURU: While the Internet has become a basic human necessity, the blind and visually impaired have little means to access it. As a way to help such people, a group of engineers from the city have built a device that converts online text into braille.
Called Sparsh, the device uses electro-mechanical technology that reproduces the content of a smartphone or a computer on a rolling display in braille. Powered by a Dynamic Braille Board or dBB, it enables streaming of digital data into its equivalent braille output in real-time.
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New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A visually-impaired computer programmer was barred from giving a test for a government-certified programmer when the state-run institute that was conducting it sent him back for not bringing a writer with him.
Originally from West Bengal, the 26-year-old Varun Mehato had gone to give his CCC exam conducted by National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), an entity under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has approved the payment of special bursary for visually impaired students of the state origin studying in tertiary institutions.
He gave the approval when the executive members of the state chapter of the Nigeria Association of the Blind (NAB), paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Benin City.
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