World Braille Day is celebrated every year on 4th January around the
world to commemorate the birthday of Louis Braille. Louis Braille is credited
with inventing the Braille language which helps blind people to read as well as
write.
Louis Braille was born in France. At the age of 3, he accidentally became
blind. However, he had a great yearning to be able to read and write properly,
despite his disability. An attentive kid at school, at the age of 15, he
developed a set of symbols by making raised dots on a piece of paper. The dots
could be easily felt by hand, thus enabling even the blind to feel them and
hence, read and write.
The language developed y Louis Braille is today known as the Braille
language. Louis's work was not only confined to alphabets. He was passionate
about music too, and thus, in the latter part of his life, he even developed
Braille language for music. While developing the language for music, he made a
point to keep it flexible so that it could be adapted to almost any musical
instrument around the world.
Although the system was very useful for those with visual impairment, it
was only 2 years after Louis's death in 1854 that the system was adopted by his
school. Soon after its adoption, it grew very popular in the rest of France.
The penetration of the system in other countries was quite slow.
The World Braille Day is celebrated every year to recognize the efforts
of Louis Braille. His simple yet effective invention made it possible for blind
people to read and write. The World Braille Day is relatively a little known
occasion. However, for individuals working for the blind, it is a day of great
significance.
There is no public holiday as such in any part of the world on this day.
Various NGOs as well as other organizations come together on this day to raise
awareness about the apathy towards blind people and to help them be equal with
the rest of the people.
Various competitions are organized across cities specifically for the
blind. Awareness is also raised about the new technologies coming in the field
of Braille language on this day. For example, in the earlier days, a special
type of typewriter had to be used in order to write Braille language. Now a
days, computers are also equipped to do the job. The World Braille Day is taken
as an opportunity by various organizations and philanthropic individuals around
the world to help the blind out there.
The World Braille Day in 2009 marked the 200th birthday anniversary of
Louis Braille. It was celebrated around the world, including that in France,
where a special exhibition was organized in a museum dedicated to Louis
Braille. In India, Belgium as well as Italy, special coins were released with
the image of Louis Braille.
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