Visually imparted caste vote in Delhi for the fourth phase

Administrator Friday 08 May 2009 - 10:37:25   Comments: 0

As hundreds of thousands of people voted in the national capital on Thursday despite scorching heat, several visually impaired voters also exercised their franchise and voted joyfully.
Polling booths with electronic voting machines (EVMs) in Braille werespecially set up for the visually handicapped voters, the fact which fascinated these special voters turning out to vote in big number.
Every one of the visually challenged was full of appreciation for the Election Commission for facilitating voting exercise through EVMs having Braille version.
Some of them had a suggestion or two for the Election Commission for the next time.
There should be improvement in the voting machine for the visuallyimpaired people. Now we have to ask from others which candidate is on number 1, 2 or 3, the candidates name should also be written next to the numbers in Braille script (method used by blind people to read and write), said Vashist Prasad, a visually impaired.

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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.
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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.



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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.


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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.
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