Our Impact Stories
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Eyeway shows the way!
Persons with vision impairment are often left behind socially and economically given the lack of awareness and access to resources from an early age. The Eyeway helpdesk aims to reach every blind and visually impaired person of the country to ensure access to information and knowledge to help them aspire for a better future. In this direction we recently aired...
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Eighteen-year-old Mohit and sixteen-year-old Niharika Kasliwal are visually impaired siblings from Kolhapur, Maharashtra. They belong to a middle-class family where the father works in a garment center and the mother sells homemade products.
When it came to educating their children, the family was supportive, even though they lacked the right information about solutions and...
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Forty-three-year-old Raju is a resident of Bangalore, Karnataka. He was diagnosed with Glaucoma at an early age after he faced vision problems in his right eye. Due to financial constraints in the family, Raju took up an office assistant’s job after finishing Class X. He faced difficulties in performing the tasks, especially running errands assigned to him but somehow, he carried on till he...
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Eighteen-year-old Khubab Muzafar was born with low vision into a well-off family in Shopian district of Jammu & Kashmir. His parents were left disheartened and clueless about raising a blind child.
Owing to the lack of blind schools/ resources for blind children in the district, his parents enrolled him in a nearby government primary school where everyone pitied him. After class 5,...
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Twenty-year-old Angat Gupta was born into a lower middle-class family residing in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh. He is the only blind child among four siblings. Despite their challenging circumstances, Angat’s father ensured that the boy had access to education from an early age. He was enrolled in a special school for the blind where he was empowered to demand his rights as an equal...
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Nineteen-year-old Pawan Kumar hails from Tumakuru city in Karnataka. He was born with a generative eye disorder, Retinitis Pigmentosa that resulted in sight loss from an early age.
Pawan’s parents were clueless about raising a child with vision impairment, so he spent most of his childhood confined alone at home. Looking at kids his age going to school, Pawan wished he could join them....
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With a keen interest in finance, Rahul Hatwal from Mumbai started his career as a Customer Support Executive in a BPO’s mutual fund department. Born sighted, Rahul led a carefree life, graduating in Commerce and enjoying financial independence soon after.
It was after five months in his first job that Rahul’s vision turned blurry. He struggled to read the content on his computer screen...
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Twenty-nine-year-old Sonu Kumar Gupta, a resident of Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, was born with vision impairment. His father, an auto-rickshaw driver is the sole breadwinner of a large family of ten. Sonu is the eldest of his eight siblings, out of which a younger brother and sister are also visually impaired.
The lack of financial resources and awareness led to keeping Sonu...
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Twenty-six-year-old Dr Hitesh Prasad is an Ayurvedic physician who was born in Hassan district of Karnataka. He experienced difficulty in seeing when he was in primary school. An ophthalmologist recommended him to wear spectacles but rapidly decreasing vision resulted in frequent change of eye glasses.
When he was pursuing higher education, living in a hostel, he faced issues of night...
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Even in 20th century India, disability is seen as a fallout of bad...
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