By Shruti Pushkarna
The last two weeks of September saw a fair bit of media coverage from the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Political gripes and handling of predominant world crises made headlines across countries.
It’s been five years since I quit the media to work in the non-profit sector. Whenever I tell people that I work with the disabled community, I get typecast into this ‘saintly selfless soul’, who chose to sacrifice her economic aspirations for the larger good. My vivid imagination introduces music from Ramanand Sagar’s ‘Ramayan’ in the background.
In this episode of Eyeway Conversations, George Abraham speaks with Sadaf Khan, a Human Resources professional working with a tech company. Sadaf lost her eyesight at the tender age of three but her parents were determined to give her the best education. She studied in reputed mainstream institutions, getting a masters in Industrial Psychology. A choice that is not considered natural or easy for persons with vision impairment.
Twenty-two-year-old Anup Kumar was born blind in Rai Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh. Anup has five other siblings, including a sister who is also visually impaired. Being poor and uneducated, the family was unaware about ways of educating children with blindness. There was added stigma induced by the surrounding community. Society tends to believe that blind people need lifelong support for their day to day living. Anup and his sister remained confined to their home, with little exposure to the outside world.
Snehankit Helpline has organised a programme on Sunday, 17th October 2021, on the occasion of World White Cane Safety Day.
The programme will consist of the following segments –
1) A short video showing the steps taken by Snehankit Helpline to provide mobility training to it’s students
2) A panel discussion on the present status of mobility training in Maharashtra. The panelists will include Mr. Hemant Patil, Mr. Prakash Pandagale & principals of blind schools from across the state. Mr. Harshad Jadhav will moderate the panel discussion.
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New Delhi: Globally, at least 1 billion people have a near or distance vision impairment that is preventable or is yet to be addressed, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Vision impairment and blindness affect daily activities, and also work opportunities.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It comes as a double delight for blind students of the National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH), Akkulam as the institute’s library has been equipped with assistive technology devices and services, that too on the occasion of World Sight Day on Thursday.
SHIMLA: In Himachal Pradesh, 3,047 visually-impaired voters would be able to exercise their vote in the byelections thanks to a Braille signage feature added with the electronic voting machines (EVMs).
Speaking on the issue, Himachal Pradesh chief electoral officer C Palrasu said instructions have been given to district officials to make special arrangements to facilitate voting for visually impaired people across the state.
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Nainital: The Centre has written to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asking it to ensure that ‘visually impaired friendly’ coins are widely circulated in public after a group of lawyers argued that non-availability of these coins violated rights of blind people under Article 14 of the Constitution.
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