Nearly half the world’s blind are in India. Of the 15 million blind in India, 25% are corneal blind and again of this 60% are children below the age of 12 years. These children have a long dark life ahead of them, but we can give them light through sight by some dedicated effort. Drushti Daan, a registered voluntary society has been working in the realm of Eye Donation since the last decade in Odisha. Every visually challenged has a RIGHT TO SIGHT and see this beautiful world. Drusthi Daan has collected nearly 2000 corneas till date.

For the visually impaired, the supermarket can be a daunting place to visit.

Buying groceries is not an easy task when you have trouble seeing.

But for people like Liat Negris, life is about to become a lot easier. By wearing the OrCam, Negrin can point to what she wants to read and the device will do it for her.

She said: “It gives me independence, you know, I can do anything by myself. I don’t need favours, I don’t need to be escorted anywhere, I can go to new places without memorising again and again the way”.

In a touching, heart-rending and soul-stirring event, more than 300 blind and differently enabled youth from all over Maharashtra participated in the western zone round of auditions for the Blind Dreams’ Indiyaah Talent Hunt for the disabled or differently enabled. The auditions were held at the Kamla Mehta School for the Blind at Dadar in Central Mumbai. Most participants came from far off towns and villages in Maharashtra and Gujarat.

NAGPUR: The Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) could not have got a better way to begin the 'eye donation fortnight' than getting someone pledging eye donation on the very first day. Pooja Saluja, 32, of Jaripatka and a graphic designer running her business, has decided to pledge eye donation with GMCH on the first day of the fortnight on Sunday.

"I had been thinking about organ donation. But recent deliberations with our religious Guru of Radhaswami Pant and recent campaign of Times of India made my determination more strong," she told TOI.

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CHANDIGARH: If your child tends to hold his book too close to his face while reading and blinks excessively, the doctor may recommend spectacles. In that case, convince him or her to wear it. Your child may not have a problem after being told that 29% of school students in the city suffer from refractive error, a condition which necessitates wearing spectacles.

Stand-up comedian Sundeep Rao begins poking fun at himself right from the word go. His latest act is called Out of Sight and the irony is obvious because Bangalore-based Rao suffers from a condition of partial blindness. He, however, strongly rejects the notion that he is "suffering", but instead sees his impairment as a silver lining. "I was bitten by an anaconda," says Rao to those who ask him about how he lost partial vision. Waiting some moments for an awkward silence, he breaks into a chuckle and explains, "It is a degenerative condition that I was diagnosed with when I was nine.

NAGPUR: It has been 25 years since the National Programme for Control Of Blindness (NPCB) was launched in the country. While it has had many successes that has helped reduce the national burden of preventable blindness, there is scope for much better services, believe experts.