Our Impact Stories
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Twenty-three-year-old Pranali Daware was born with low vision in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Coming from a low income family, Pranali lost her father at an early age. Her mother supports the family through her income from a job in a private school.
Her parents tried to seek various medical interventions to reverse their daughter’s eyesight but at the age of five, due to optic nerve damage,...
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Digital empowerment to achieve career goals
Fifty-year-old Om Prakash is a resident of Durg district in Chhattisgarh. He was born with an eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa, which results in gradual sight loss. Up till Class X, Om Prakash was able to attend regular school alongside sighted children. But as his vision began to deteriorate, he was unable to study in a mainstream... -
Thirty-six-year-old Venkatesh A lives with his family in South Karnataka. He was born with a degenerative eye condition which resulted in gradual sight loss. Venkatesh could only study till Class 8 due to his parents’ poor financial condition, and he started working from an early age.
He worked as a labourer, loading goods into a lorry, but as his eyesight deteriorated, he couldn... -
Nineteen-year-old Ajay Kumar is a resident of Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh. Following an outbreak of smallpox at the age of 5, Ajay lost his eyesight completely. But he still managed to study, and he is currently pursuing Class 12.
Ajay was born into a low income household, and his parents and siblings shared the family home with his maternal grandparents. Due to some discord, they... -
Living with a disability is not easy in a country where a large section of the population still looks at it as an outcome of bad karma. And being a person with disability born to a poor household makes it harder. Now imagine a blind girl from a low income family, the stigma scales greater heights.
The Eyeway Helpdesk receives fewer calls from women with blindness as they are... -
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 mandates equal access to opportunities of education for students with disabilities. The law also states that reasonable accommodation measures be provided so that barriers in access don’t deter students from availing these opportunities.
The Marathwada region of Maharashtra is home to several low income families who struggle for... -
Thirty-five-year-old Zainab Arif was born with an eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa. In her early years, she had partial vision, but gradually she experienced further sight loss. At present, she only has some light perception left. Growing up in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Zainab went to a regular school. But due to deteriorating eyesight, she couldn’t study after Class 8. Her family...
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Guidance for independent living
Twenty-eight-year-old Rahul was born totally blind into a middle income family in Latur, Maharashtra. His parents lacked awareness about living life with blindness. As a result, Rahul started his schooling later than usual. But he successfully completed his Class X through Maharashtra State Board.
When he came in touch with... -
There are around 60 million blind and visually impaired people living in India. A majority of this population remains ignorant, with limited or no access to opportunities of education and employment. This also means they remain financially dependent on family and close community.
The government of India offers a monthly Disability Pension to support their basic needs. This pension scheme... -
Twenty-year-old Khagesh hails from Purnia in Bihar. At the age of three, he was administered few injections to treat a fever, after which he lost his eyesight. Khagesh studied in a local special school for the blind till Class VIII and is currently pursuing Class XII via open schooling.
Khagesh operates a bank account with the State Bank of India. Recently, when he called the...
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