Atul Ranjan Sahay, a visually impaired person joined as a member of Lions Club of Jamshedpur Tatanagar. Membership of Lions Club of Atul Ranjan Sahay for his Lions Club was sponsored by Rajnish Kumar, Second Vice District Governor(Elect) which was readily agreed by the Club Board. He joined the club with two other new members Vijay Kumar Singh and a lady Nutan Gupta. Sahay is a senior manager at Tata Steel.
Area yoga teachers will be offering a special class to benefit the visually impaired.
Local teachers Janine Bennett, Andrea Jennings, Nicole Tweedie, Sue Whitmarsh and Joan Wolf will be joining Michelle Massey-Barnes in her studio as part of Yoga for Sight from 6-7:30 p.m., Friday, June 20 at the Chelsea Clocktower. The event will help the Seva Foundation’s work to help people see again.
The Seva Foundation was founded in Chelsea 35 years and is now based in California. The foundation has helped 3.5 million to see again.
In Delhi, urban transport has undergone a sea change in the last decade. But how accessible are the Delhi Metro, DTC buses and the railways to the differently abled?
The state government is planning to make government web portals disabled-friendly with screen readers, resizing of texts and colour contrast scheme by August 15.
Screen reader is a software application that interprets the display on a computer and presents it to an user in a text-to-speech, sound icon or Braille form, making the contents accessible to the blind.
Surveys reveal that people with disabilities consistently report a good quality of life, says Tom Shakespeare. So why is it often assumed they are unhappy?
Have you ever thought to yourself: "I'd rather be dead than disabled?" It's not an unusual reflection. Disability, in everyday thought, is associated with failure, with dependency and with not being able to do things. We feel sorry for disabled people, because we imagine it must be miserable to be disabled.
Visually challenged Bangalorean girl Miss Ashwini Angadi, achiever of ’Youth Courage Award’ by the United Nations in 2013 is all set to open her dream challenge project by Ashwini Angadi Trust, ’Belaku Academy’ a residential school for visually impaired children in Bangalore on 6th of June, 2014.
Jnana Peetha Awardee Dr. Chandrashekar Kambar will be inaugurating the formation of Ashwini Angadi Trust on Friday the 6th June, 2014, on the birthday of Ashwini, at No. 9, Supraja Nagar, 7th Cros, Konankunte, Bangalore. The programme will start at sharp 10.30 AM.
In a move to encourage visually-impaired students to opt for higher education, the State government has decided to distribute laptops free of cost to such students of government, aided and unaided educational institutions in the State.
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