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May All Become Happy,
May All Be Free From illness,
May All see What is Auspicious,
May No One Suffer.
Acharya Sushrut
Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time. Small changes can make a big difference.Success is a SUM. Small efforts repeated day in and day out
For more details, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta/
Mahatma gandhi
Service which is rendered without JOY helps neither server nor served.
The weak can never forgive. It is an attribute of strong.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live for ever.
Louis Braille
Louis Braille was a French educator and inventor of a reading and writing system for use by people who are visually impaired. His system remains virtually unchanged to this day, and is known worldwide simply as braille. Source: Wikipedia
As he pressed down, the sharp pointed tool slipped and struck him in one eye. Louis' damaged eye could not be treated and in the weeks that followed the young boy's eye became badly infected. The infection spread to his other eye. By the time he was five years old, Louis was completely blind in both eyes.
Ms. Beroz Vacha
Ms. Beroz Vacha pioneered educational services for children with deafblindness throughout India starting in 1977. She combined her knowledge and expertise with a deep passion for children and families and went about her work in an unassuming, easy going manner that never failed to put people at ease.
Ms. Beroz had a deep understanding of the possibilities of individuals with deafblindness and multiple disabilities, and she pushed for the recognition of ‘total communication’ as a mode of communication for those with deafblindness and hearing impairment
professor Valentin Haüy
In 1784 French calligraphy professor Valentin Haüy opened the first school for the blind in Paris. Haüy had been influenced by Charles-Michel, abbé de l'Épée, who had opened the first public school for the deaf in the 1770s. The school’s name was the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris.
Haüy's impulse to help the blind started in 1771, after he stopped for lunch in a cafe on the Place de la Concorde, Paris. There, he witnessed an ensemble of people from the Quinze-Vingts hospice for the blind being mocked during the religious street festival, He decided to found a school with Charles-Michel de l'Épée.[3]
Dr.V of Arvind Eye Hospital
Intelligence and capabilities are not enough. There must be joy of doing something beautiful. You don't just find people. You have to BUILD them. To get things done in a BIG and PERMANENT way it must be done spiritually.
For more details please visit https://aravind.org/our-founder/
Tiffany Brar
Yes, there is a mobile school for blind in Trivandrum, Kerala state. It is started by Tiffany Brar. Tiffany Brar is an Indian community service worker who became blind as an infant due to oxygen toxicity. She is the founder of the Jyothirgamaya Foundation, a non-profit organization that teaches life skills to blind people of all ages.
She firmly believes “that if a student cannot go to school, school must reach to their doorstep.”
For more details please visit https://www.jyothirgamayaindia.org/founder.php
Hellen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness at the age of 19 months.
Source : Wikipedia
Upasana Makati
I review the day to think about what went right, what went wrong, and what I can do in life to make it more meaningful. And one such night, I just happened to wonder about what visually impaired people read. If we want to read, we have so many options. We can easily read so many magazines. But when this thought came to me, ledge life styleI couldn’t think of even one newspaper or magazine that is there for the visually impaired in Braille.”
She started in 2013, full fledged life style magazine for visually impaired “WHITE PRINT” after talking with community what they want to read
First Blind School in India
The first special school for the blind in India was set up at Amritsar in 1887. During the subsequent six decades several special schools came up in different parts of the country. As a result, there were about 50 such schools at the time of attaining independence.
Source: NAB
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