The Schwab Foundation has named Stefan Zappa, founder of the blindekuh chain of restaurants, Swiss Social Entrepreneur 2007.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, India’s one of the leading eye care provider, has successfully performed Intraocular lens (IOL) implant on Anandhi, who is just 4 years, using glued IOL technology. For the first time in the World, tissue glue has been used to fix an intraocular lens in an eye, where Intraocular lenses cannot be implanted. This new surgical procedure was invented & performed by Prof. Amar Agarwal, Joint Managing Director, Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, Chennai.