BENGALURU: Visually and hearing impaired adults on Friday experienced their first ride on a portion of Namma Metro’s underground Corridor with the help of an NGO and IT concern, who facilitated it. Sense International India had organised the ride for 34 visually and hearing impaired adults along with their interpreters from Swami Vivekananda Metro station to Cubbon Park Metro station. Thirteen volunteers from Cognizant also took part.
Pallavi (name changed) was 14-years-old when a field worker from the NGO, Sense International India, discovered her tied inside a cowshed in Jharkhand. She was menstruating and unaware of it; her clothes were soiled.
CHENNAI: This year the Global IT Challenge (GITC) for Youth with Disabilities will be held during 21st – 25th November, 2016 in Yagzhou, Jiangsu, China. The event is meant for four categories of disabilities – visual impairment, hearing impairment, physical impairment (locomotor) and intellectual/development disorder for people within 13-19 years. One youth with disability from each of the above categories will be nominated to participate in the GITC 2016 in China.
Their vision may be impaired, but their dreams need not be.
Students of Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science (MITS), Madanapalle, have designed a system called ‘Blind Vision’ that helps the visually-challenged to tread easily even in crowded spaces.
HYDERABAD: How does it feel not to have a vision? What does one go through when one can see, but finds it tough to type something on the cramped smartphone keypad? Microsoft India hosted Confluence, a annual diversity and inclusion conference in Hyderabad on Friday. It had a host of events and sessions to help its employees understand shortcomings of people, be sensitive towards them and be more perceptive towards all.
Having trouble seeing items on your phone screen?
At 19 years of age, Datta Baban Gawli, a vendor earning his living in local trains at Daund, suffered an accident and it led to the amputation of both his legs. Not one to give up, he got a tricycle wheelchair and started selling goods again. He availed a disability certificate from Sassoon general hospital to ensure that he could use the tricycle wheelchair in the train.
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