Great endeavor! All the best! On 3/8/17, ra...@barrierbreak.com <ra...@barrierbreak.com> wrote: > Helping visually impaired with the write choice - My Take by Ummehaani > Bagasrawala > > Source: NewzHook (www.newzhook.com) > > As a college student in Mumbai, I have experienced firsthand how hard it > is for visually impaired students to find writers before exams. I, like > other visually impaired students, would run from pillar to post, desperate > to find someone who would be willing to help out. > > When you have experienced that kind of stress, you don’t want others to > suffer. That is why I decided to start Pearls of Vision India. > We are a small group of people who help people with visual impairments > with writing various exams - school, college and competitive exams. It’s a > social cause and we do it free of charge. > > We formally launched the group in 2015 and gave it a name but we started > working informally before that. > > We reach out to students all over India through WhatsApp and Facebook. We > recently added Aurangabad to our list of cities.It would help us a lot if > principals at schools and colleges were to create a small team of students > who we could be in touch with regarding exam schedules etc. This would > make the process smoother. > > It makes me very happy when people call after exams and tell us that the > writer was very good or that the exam went off well. Recently, there was > this Class 12 student from Kerala who called us from a co-passenger’s > phone on the train and said that he wanted a writer in Mumbai for an exam. > > He had no money to even travel from the train station to the exam centre > but he had heard of us and reached out for help. When such things happen, > I feel very satisfied with what we have been able to do. > > About the Writer > Ummehaani Bagasrawala is the founder of Pearls of Vision India, a group > that helps the visually impaired find writers. She can be reached at > 9619177720 or at pearlsofvisionin...@gmail.com. There is also a Facebook > page - Pearls of Vision. > > > > 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.. >
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