Antardrishti Forum for Friends of Blind
Recently a meeting was held at Goverdhan Hotel on 7 February 2010 to discuss the problems of visually impaired people, wherein it was unanimously decided to establish a forum designated as 'Antardrishti Forum for Friends of Blind' which shall address problem of the visually impaired and their seamless integration with the mainstream society.
We welcome your views and suggestions on the same. The forum is being formally launched on 21st February 2010 at Youth Hostel, Sanjay Place, Agra.
Concept note of the forum is available for your perusal in Hindi and English. Please feel free to share your valuable suggestions through email at
affb@antardrishti.org as well.
Eye Care
The much awaited awareness manual for school teachers on children's eye care is now available in Hindi language and very soon we will be bringing out the English Manual as well. In this manual, we have incorporated the views and suggestion of teachers, ophthalmologist and instructors. We hope that this manual would serve the purpose of a useful training aid towards prevention of blindness amongst children.
If you, or anyone known to you, work with school (junior section) as a teacher/ principal/ manager or in any capacity and is willing to use this manual, please fill the form to obtain a copy of the manual.
Click on the LinkWe would also like to request you to forward this message to everyone in your contact list. This way we can reach to a lot more of them.
Together we can bring a change in the life of Sunayana, a visually impaired............
Currently we are collecting information about visually impaired people in India to understand their situation in a comprehensive manner. This will help us to articulate and share plan and programs for their development.
If you know any visually impaired person and wish to support, kindly download the form and pass it on to him or her. If you find this cumbersome kindly fill the form on their behalf and send the detail by email at
sunayana@antardrishti.org or by post to Antardrishti office.
The form is available at
http://antardrishti.org/download.php?view.10.
We would also like to request you to forward this message to everyone in your contact list. This way we can reach to a lot more of them.
Theatre for Personality Development
We all know that theatre can play a big role in creating awareness and bringing social change. With this understanding we organized a theatre workshop for the visually impaired children not only to create awareness but also to provide them a tool for their own personality development. This was our first effort; there were barriers all around, but the kids were full of enthusiasm and vigour. They all did some hard work and came out with flying colours. We are planning to organize some more workshops with the visually impaired children and look forward to your comments and feedback
sunayana@antardrishti.org. Join us to be part of such a process to bring change in the life of Sunayana; not one but many around us……….
Eye Donation
According to Indian council of Medical Research (ICMR) study on blindness show that about 25% of the total blind in India are blind due to corneal blindness. we require really a large number of people to donate their eyes if we want to treat these patients.There is a huge gap between the supply and demand of eyes - supply being 10% of demand! And in a country like India this gap is ever increasing. Why this lack of concern? Well, some experts like to believe that such a callous attitude on part of society is due to a lack of a concenrted effort on a national scale by everyone who needs to be involved, namely, professionals, the media, Government, voluntary organizations and civil society at large.Then, there are superstitions and strange beliefs to contend with such as the belief that one will be born disfigured or blind in the next birth if eyes are removed before cremation / burial. Click on the link for more information on eye donation :
