Dear All: Greetings from the Eyeway Helpdesk!
Follow below the Daily Eyeway Alerts: 1. Planet-abled provides accessible travel solutions for people with disabilities. We customize tours according to the different ability of the traveller so that they are fully able to enjoy and experience the new place and culture. Converting specially-abled tourists into travellers and creating a platform for inclusive tourism alongside. So if you are differently abled or are a family member of one, come join us in the First Ever Accessible Heritage Tour in Delhi this January 30, 2016 !! You can come alone or with a family member/friend/partner to have an inclusive travel experience no matter what your disability is. We have designed the tour and itinerary keeping in mind travellers of different disabilities. You could be visually impaired, hearing or speech impaired or mobility impaired, we'll make sure you don't miss out on anything. The accessibility of the places and their historical significance in and around the area has been taken care of as well. We would start at 10 am and cover the park in first 3 hours. Then we would have nice scrumptious lunch in the natural setting like a mini picnic and move to the Qutub Complex. We start the second leg of tour at 2 pm and would cover the place in next 2 hours. Book Tickets here to the First Accessible Heritage Tour of Delhi. Call us at – 9582088882. Email Us at - tra...@planetabled.com <mailto: tra...@planetabled.com. More at http://eyeway.org/?q=first-ever-accessible-heritage-tour-delhi 2. The 5th session of project Dignity was held on 6th December 2015. Venue: The Silver Linings Office: 164 B, Pocket A, Mayur Vihar Phase 2, Delhi 110091. Time: 11am. To 4.30pm. Number of Participants: 9. Session one was moderated by Preeti Monga: Here participants shared their life challenges and successes, while Preeti helped them recognize the learning's and development their life experiences had given them; while the others also found how they could relate to each other's experiences and derive value and courage from the same. Session two was moderated by Ms. Ronnica: Here the participants were drawn into a discussion by the moderator; to get them to identify what were the top things that they wanted to learn and develop, so that these sessions could actually bring value to all of them. Session 3 was jointly moderated by Ms. Ronnica and Preeti. This session dealt with relationship and marriage.Session 4 was once again moderated by Preeti: This session was around general issues of visually impaired women and non disabled women. Challenges around striking a good work life balance and other day to day issues. The Dignity Workshop culminated with a hot cup of tea and cookies and happy smiles!With a plan of Dignity workshops to grow in numbers and participants. Also, to involve more non disabled and other disabled females in the programme. We are also in the process of looking for collaborations with other institutions and organizations to increase our reach! More at http://eyeway.org/?q=dignity-session-5th-report 3. DIVYA JYOTHI CHARITABLE TRUST is organizing state level yoga camp and cultural programme on sixth and seventh of February 2016 . We are expecting 100 visually impaired persons to participate in different events. Yoga camp will be held on 6th and 7th February from 10.30am to 3.30 pm. Cultural program will be held on 6th and 7th February from 3.30pm to 8pm. Cultural program Competitions will be held in the following categories. Patriotic group songs, Folk group songs, Laavani group songs, bajana group songs. All events will be open for groups only, consisting of 4 to 10 members. Each team should give 30 minutes program Including four category along with instruments. Each team is allowed with single escort, if it is girl participants in the team they can bring one lady escort and travelling allowance will be given to escorts. Food and accommodation will be provided to participants from 5th February 4pm to 8th February 10am and winning teams will be given prizes. Registrations are open between 10 A.m. to 5 P.M. Contact Shri Nagaraj 0821-2510129 0821-2510129 or 9513359881 Last date for registration 31 January 2016. E mail I d is divya.jyothi.tr...@gmail.com. More at http://eyeway.org/?q=state-level-yoga-camp-and-cultural-program-visually-challenged-mysore -- With warm regards, Helpdesk Team! Toll free: 1800 300 20469 Working days: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Website: www.eyeway.org “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”—William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. 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