Skill Development Training to Visually Impaired Children on Braille & ICT

02 May 2022, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribagh): Under Inclusive Education Project of Sightsavers and with support of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, Skill Development Training upon Braille & Information-Communication-Technology for visually impaired children is going on at NBJK co-ordination office campus.

These children are students of Government schools from different blocks of Hazaribagh district. The training started on 19th April and children learn life skills, Braille script and different ICT devices like daisy player, mobile phone, laptop etc to make their academic performance better. For their practice, the project has provided Braille kits, abacuses and reading-writing materials to the students of class 1-5, made available mobile phones, daisy players and e-books for the children of class 6-8 while the students of class 9-12 have been supported with laptops & audio books. In evening time, the trainee children join special recreational activities also.

Mr. Satyajit Singh (District Project Co-ordinator, Sightsavers) who himself a physically challenged person, says about Sightsavers’ initiative like development of visually challenged children’s course books in Braille script. As the resource person Ms. Mala Yadav and Mr. Paaras Kumar (Dist. IE Facilitator, Sightsavers) play important role in the training that will end on 3rd May.