Bharatiya Welfare Association for the Blind’ (Gulbarga, Karnataka) is offering karate training to visually impaired boys to equip them with self-defence skills.

The training programme was inaugurated by Amrita Somnath, national referee for Karate and an international karate player from Kerala, recently.

She said karate is a means for self-defence, not attack. It creates tolerance and inculcates discipline in a person, she added.

Association president, Dattu Agarwal, said it was for the first time in North Karnataka this unique programme has been taken up.

The training will be for three days a week. It will be a continuous programme that will resume in June after the summer vacations.