Dear All,
Hi, I am Amit Jain from Rising Star Tours & Travels. Last 10 months, I have started taking Trips for Visually Impaired community on very rebated Prices/ Nil Prices. Till now I have taken people to Pangot, Rishikesh, Jaipur, Jim Corbett and recently, I am taking a Trip to Mussoorie on 1st August 2019 for 4 days all inclusive in just 2999/- only. The rest amount is taken care of by me or my friends. I am doing all this out of love. While doing all this I came across a few concerns which issues which your community faces. I am trying to address one of them. I am sharing one idea with you and request you to please give your inputs. If this is implemented the way I anticipate then it will certainly revolutionize the way you all travel. Please take a serious part in it. ReCommunity Helping the Community. One Community helping another Community as Volunteers across cities, states & Countries. How It can be Done A Guy ( Mr. X) from Bhopal called me on 11/03/2019 and told me that he is traveling to Mussoorie in the month of April. They are 4 people. All are Visually Impaired People. They have booked their Tickets and Hotels etc and they wanted to have a person who can help them in sightseeing there, as they are visually Impaired thus they need assistance. Mr. X told me he approached some Travels ( this agency do travel for Disabled Community professionally, but they are charging very much and he cannot afford that big amount. So he asked me if my agency can arrange a Taxi driver for them who should be sensitive enough and kind enough for the blind and can also help as a Tour Guide. I told him I will try for the same. This moment the idea came to my mind. What if I use my contacts ( known people) in Dehradun/ Mussoriee and tell them the whole story and ask them if they can provide a volunteer ( it can be self/ friend/ driver/ family/ employee/ relative etc ) for the visiting visually Impaired in their city. I can tell them that no expense is involved, it is just they want someone to help them in Travel. If this happens it will help us two ways- 1. Blind will spread on it's known to the Blind Community that there is some kind of facility which can be availed free of cost. You get a volunteer at the city u are visiting (without cost and with love) which no one can provide. This eliminates the constraints of Travel. 2. This way we may be able to open a Volunteer Bank ( services) where we can keep a record of people who wants to volunteer and this will help the disabled community. In this case of Mr. X. We can take a commitment from him as well that the number of days you have taken the services of Volunteer, you have to give the same number of days volunteer ship to any a person with a disability ( which matches the common criteria) coming to your city. You can be given 3 chances. If u deny for it 3 times in a row then you will be delisted from the bank and you will never get the volunteers anytime in life. This volunteer ship can be given by anyone nominated by Mr. X and not necessarily by himself. This way there will be always incoming and outgoing of Volunteers everywhere. This, we will create a Google Group whose main Agenda of Conversation will be Travel and Travel Only. People will become a member because they will learn that they will get free services of Volunteer for their Travel. Members who are part of the group can also become Volunteers for others. Eg.- If a Delhi Visually Impaired is visiting Mumbai for Holidays for 3 days and he puts the query on the Google Group. There might be a Visual Impaired member from the group only who comes up and offers his volunteer ship for a Delhi person coming to Mumbai. If Mumbai person does this then he will earn credit points in his account which can be later used by him when he needs volunteer service in any other city. (the win-win situation for Mumbai Person) and Delhi person will enjoy the service and also gives a verbal commitment to volunteer for the same no. of days if someone is coming to Delhi. A Volunteer bank sort of thing will be created where you deposit/ withdraw your Volunteer Days. If this works well with Visual Impaired People then, We can involve all disabilities in it. We can connect the whole world in it. A person with One disability can also be a volunteer for another disability ( if not him then certainly his family/ friends can be). This may also mean that give service in Bhopal and get benefit in London. This way we can help and support manage disabilities and the whole disability by themselves can take care of each other and this will create a boom about the travel they can be freer about it and this can be done in a very big way and a very noble way. We can connect the whole world with this concept and also can connect all the disabilities. Request you all to please give your inputs on what all points we should take care of while designing/ working on it. We wish to create a Mobile application for it which will work on this idea. What all points/ features to be made/ created in the app. What all precautions for Visual Impaired or volunteer to be taken care of. Share extensively to let us work on it. Become a part of it to make it more and more successful. We have kept brainstorming session on it on 30th June' 2019 in the afternoon in North West Delhi. We will be preparing a complete blueprint of our app. on that day. We have invited many prominent personalities of the society ( from Visually Impaired Community & sighted both). If you think you can also contribute to the cause and take this initiative further, then please contact me personally on mail and on phone and you can also be invited to be part of it. Looking Forward Amit Jain 9811141952 [email protected] -- Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] 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..
