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Please, follow below the Daily Eyeway Alerts: News- Group life insurance policy for visually impaired. The local unit of the National Association for Blind (NAB) has announced a group life insurance policy for 700 visually impaired students, to mark the Louis Braille Day. This was announced at a function held in observance of the 208th centenary of Louis Braille. Lizzie Jacob, former chief secretary of the State, was the chief guest at the event. The insurance policy has been facilitated by the Amway Opportunity Foundation, the corporate social responsibility wing of Amway India. NAB celebrated the occasion by organising a Braille reading and writing contests for 81 visually impaired students at the organisation. Quiz and music competitions were also held. The Braille calender was distributed amongst beneficiaries of NAB. Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/Group-life-insurance-policy-for-visually-impaired/article17009782.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication IGRMS ORGANISES BLIND CHALLENGE CAR RALLY. The 11th Blind Challenge Car Rally was organised in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) and Arushi, NGO for disabled on Sunday. There were 48 participants - drivers and the visually impaired navigators took part. The rally was flagged off by Chief Secretary Govt. of MP- BP Singh, Chairman of RERA Antony De Sa and Director of IGRMS Prof. Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri. It began from DB City Mall and culminated at the Manav Sangrahalaya. The rally where the vehicle was driven by a sighted person and the navigator was a blind person, the route map in Braille was given to them on the spot. The navigators for the rally were from all over Madhya Pradesh. The rally covered around 30 kms distance within the Bhopal Municipal limits. 48 teams of driver and navigators participated in the 11th chapter of Blind Challenge Car- Rally. Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/igrms-organises-blind-challenge-car-rally.html. More at http://www.eyeway.org/?q=igrms-organises-blind-challenge-car-rally -- -- With warm regards, Helpdesk Team! Toll free: 1800 300 20469 Working days: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Helpdesk: e...@eyeway.org Website: www.eyeway.org Office Phone: 011-26472582 You can stay connected with us on What'sApp: Eyeway-9968329329 Facebook: facebook/projecteyeway Twitter: @friendsofeyeway Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/eyewayindia “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”―Mary Anne Radmacher 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. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
