Educate a visually challenged child for one year

GlobalGiving has gained us numerous donors across the world and this leads to raising our fund through $17,646 by 265 Philanthropists. Great thanks to the supporters and well-wishers of IAB who are behind the tremendous increase in the funds for this project.

Indian Association for the Blind (lAB), 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.

A Statistics reveals that out of the 39 million blind people in the world, 7.8 million people live in India, which amounts to almost 20 percentage of that population. Four lakh children out of the fourteen lakh are from India, out of which only 5 percentage of them receive the right to education.

IAB has been instrumental in providing best education with regard to all the required skill sets which would be helpful for each of them in a lot of aspects and would certainly help them look at life in a positive perspective.

Every year the school provides education free of charge to hundreds of students from middle to higher secondary level. A unique feature of the school is that since 1995 the school has achieved almost 100 % results in the class X and XII board exams. The IAB Higher Sec School follows the same content in syllabus as students in any school for sighted children in the state interestingly only the method of instruction is based on the needs of visually challenged. 

We look forward to raising more for this cause. As always, we, along with GlobalGiving, will do our best in reaching out to generous donors across the Globe and will strive to bring happiness on the face of each of our beneficiaries.

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