A blind Tokyo masseur will put his healing hands to work as a volunteer at a facility for the physically disabled in Malaysia with the hope he can "pass techniques on and make a difference."
Saburo Sasada was due Tuesday to head to Malaysia on a two-year stint as a senior overseas volunteer for the Japan International Cooperation Agency. According to the agency, he is the first totally blind volunteer it has sent abroad for an extended period.
The Leeds-based tour operator was born out of entrepreneur Amar Latif's frustration at the lack of options available to blind travellers.
When Amar Latif discovered that the sort of travel experiences he was looking for didn’t exist for blind travellers, he was faced with two options. He could either do without, or organise them himself. Not being afraid of a challenge he decided on the latter option and in April 2005 the Leeds-based tour operator Traveleyes was born.
The jury said on Thursday it was won over by Zappa's "Blind-Liecht" charitable foundation and its innovative gastronomic concept, which involves diners eating in the darkness and being guided through their meals by blind and visually impaired waiters.
The "Blind-Liecht" charitable foundation was set up in December 1998 by Zappa, a partially sighted psychologist, with help from three other blind people.
Helping the visually impaired to reach out to the world was the motto of the day for The National Association for the Blind (NAB) who, along with Rotary Club of Bangalore, distributed around 1,000 FM radios to visually challenged persons at the NAB Rehabilitation Complex here on Saturday.
It is part of Rotary Club’s ‘Support the Challenged’ initiative, which in turn was supported by Mitra Jyothi and Matru.
Credit Suisse aims to become the most accessible bank in Switzerland. Therefore the bank is clearing obstacles: Steps are being removed from branch entrances, ATMs are getting a voice, and applications and web portals are being reprogrammed.
It's a visual spectacular, but that did not stop 300 blind and partially-sighted children enjoying the delights of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The Royal National Institute for the Blind brought the youngsters to a special performance of the CS Lewis classic being staged at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. The children met and interacted with the characters from the magical world of Narnia, including the White Witch, Aslan the lion, Mr and Mrs Beaver and the four evacuated children – all of whom were in full costume. They then experienced the wonder of the production.
The Open Society Institute, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the
United Kingdom Department for International Development, and an anonymous donor today announced a groundbreaking collaborative to support the human rights for people with disabilities.
The National Association for the Blind, India (NAB) in association with Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has launched a Specialized Cyber Café for the visually impaired in New Delhi.
COIMBATORE: A ‘talking book library’ will come to the help of visually impaired students here since learning through Braille system is “difficult for them.”
The library, which will be called ‘Bharathi-Rotary Talking Book Library’, will be set up by the Bharathiar University (BU) with the support of a Rotary Club. It will be opened in a month at a private college in the city.
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