The coronavirus can survive on surfaces for a long time, and for those who rely on touch, it has made life more difficult.
The visually impaired understand the world through touch and feel. Without this, everything from shopping for groceries to using the elevator becomes impossible,” says K N Sudeendra Kumar, programme officer with a community-based rehabilitation forum...
Jammu: The School Education Department in Jammu and Kashmir is going to distribute 42 laptops among children who are visually impaired to provide inclusive educational support through technological interventions.
The laptops will be connected to braille tactile terminals lying in the resource rooms, School Education Principal Secretary Asgar Samoon said.
This will help the visually-impaired children to read and explore more learning resources from the internet,” he said.
All sessions are in English and the minimum requirement to join the course is basic knowledge of computer and mobile phones.
KOCHI: You have seen him; the blind lottery seller, walking ever so gently by the side of the bustling street. You might have even bought a lottery from him regardless of whether you have a penchant for trying your luck or not. That man could have been Venugopal Mani, the 32-year-old blind cricketer from Badiyadka in Kasaragod district.
New Delhi, May 7 (PTI) Visually impaired Amina, who relies heavily on her sense of touch, wonders what kind of ''new life'' awaits her when the lockdown imposed in view of the coronavirus pandemic relaxes.
For Amina, it is a double whammy as not only touching any surface will put her at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus but also the new norm of social distancing would make the outside world more wary towards helping her and other blind people.
Sandeep Rana
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 6
A visually challenged man, who holds MA and BEd degree, got a home when he turned 39 today.
Forced to take to begging due to the traumatic family life and failed attempts to get a job, Billu Paswan was today shifted to Sector 21-based Cheshire Homes, a place for the destitute, by the local Municipal Corporation.
He has been living and begging outside Sai mandir in Sector 29 for nearly 2.5 years.
As a girl of 15, Nidhi Goyal wanted to be a portrait artist. Then she became visually-challenged, and turned to activism. “I was 16,” she says about losing sight to a rare genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa. “It was a struggle and I was slipping into depression until I looked at my own privilege.” She then decided to “do something about it”.
Rahul Gambhir, a 31-year-old banker from Mumbai, is worried about the day when the Covid-19 lockdown will be lifted and he will have to join office again.
His office is at Nariman Point, which is at least 20km away from his flat at Chembur.
There are several questions worrying Gambhir, who is totally blind since birth.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called on governments around the world to specifically take into account the billions of people with disabilities in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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