By Ilakkiaarasi | Relationship Coordinator
We, lndian Association for the Blind (lAB), are based in South India and are a well-known non-profit organization working to provide education, employment, training and rehabilitation for the visually challenged from rural areas. Late Mr. S.M.A.Jinnah, the visually challenged activist and a group of like-minded visually challenged people founded IAB in 1985.
Until today,we have benefitted more than 30,000 youths who now hold prestigious positions in society. For this project, we have received 33 donations worth $1872. This amount has helped us provide assistive devices such as Laptops, angel players, Net books and headphones to our beneficiaries. Assistive Device helps our visually impaired students to increase their access to the general curriculam and improve their academic performance. As the name suggests, these devices will assist them in their daily lives by offering the best possible help of operating all devices with ease. This project helps to give more the technologies for our students.
In this fast-paced world, everything around us is rapidly changing and it requires each and every one of us to be in tune with the flow. Assistive device helps for note taking, studying for test, research and a variety of other academic uses. This being the case, at IAB, we aim to provide our visually challenged students with the right devices which will help make their lives easier and those that help them be on par with the sighted individuals.
These devices will ease their daily life by providing them with the perfect assistance required. In today's world, everything around us is rapidly changing and it requires each and everyone of us to go with the flow.This being the case, we at IAB, aim to provide our visually challenged students with all the devices needed for them to lead smooth lives, in the exact same way as the sighted individuals. We are happy to have a good support system and are sure of always being on the right track, thanks to our philanthropists and GlobalGiving!
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