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| ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THE VISUALLY
CHALLENGED. |
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Date: 26th Dec 2003
Venue: Kalamassery Office, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Organisation: Society For the Rehabilitation Of The Visually
Challenged
Project Coordinator: Sunil. J. Mathew |
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INAUGURATION
OF THE RESOURCE CENTRE
The
inauguration of the ‘Resource Centre
for the Visually Challenged’ was held at
Madukkakuzhy building Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala, India, on 26th December
2003 under the auspices of the Society For Rehabilitation Of
The Visually Challenged. Welcoming the participants Shri Jacob Peter, Secretary of the Society
explained that the centre was a long-standing need of the visually challenged in
Ernakulam district, and a dream project of the Society turned
to reality .
Shri.
M.J Chacko in his presidential address stressed on the "
duty of an individual to bring our deprived
brethren of vision into the mainstream of social,
economic and cultural life of the society."
Prof.V.J.
Pappu, President of ICSW and Pro Vice Chancellor (Retd) CUSAT
while inaugurating the Centre pointed out that society had a
responsibility towards the physically handicapped to provide
them with material support, and also help them live in society
with equal
honour and respect as their sighted counterparts.
Shri M.C. Roy, Head of Projects, in his keynote address
emphasized that there was
a need to work as
a team to meet the needs of the visually challenged . The Resouce Centre
is to provide the much needed
impetus for this section of the people to come to the forefront, and it
will need the vision deprived brethren to make optimum use of this
facility.
Dr.K.K.
Mohamed Yusuf, Professor CUSAT presented a memento to shri C.U.
Priyesh who bagged First Rank in Political Science from M.G.
University during 2002-2003.Shri.George Varghese thanked all
the donors and all other others who supported this
endeavour with money and material. This was followed by a LIVE
demonstration by Mr.George Varghese and Sunil, using the
software developed by Dr.
Kalyanakrishnan and his team at I.I.T. Chennai.
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| Disability
- Blind (Visual) : Statistics "Blindness
represents a serious public health, social and
economic problem for our Member States. It is
especially true for the developing countries, where 9
out of 10 of the world's blind live," stated Dr
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of WHO.
"Up to 80% of global blindness is avoidable: it
either results from the conditions that could have
been prevented or can be successfully treated with the
sight restored," she said.
Today, there is an estimated 180
million people worldwide who are visually disabled. Of
these, between 40 and 45 million persons are blind and,
by definition, cannot walk about unaided. Around 60% of
the world's blind reside in sub-Saharan Africa, China
and India.
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