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As you are aware, a campaign had been initiated for making Indian currency accessible for persons with visual impairment, low vision, visual perception issues and senior citizens. Please find all details about the campaign appended in the mail below. Do sign the petition in support of the campaign and also share it with your friends in big number. This crucial campaign needs massive support to get it changed. Thanks & Regards Smitha Sadasivan Vidya Sagar, Chennai -----Original Message----- From: Ai [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI) via Ai Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 4:46 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI) <[email protected]> Subject: [DKIM Failure] Re: [Ai] Accessible Indian Currency social media campaign ! Get people to sign the petition, share and like Hi all, You can use the below message to forward to your contacts, all the WhatsApp groups and online groups to spread the word on accessible Indian currency. How would you feel if you unknowingly give away a 500-rupee note to the auto person instead of Rs 20 note and realize after he drives away? Frightening and disabling. isn’t it? Unfortunately, this scenario is becoming a day-to-day challenge for over 50 lakh blind people in India. Please support accessible Indian currency campaign by signing the below petition and sharing it on Facebook. Here are the three simple steps you need to follow: 1.Click on the below change.org petition and sign the petition by sharing your email id. Your message will automatically reach the authorities by an email as soon as you sign the petition. So get as many people as possible to sign this. Also, share the petition on your Facebook profile and remember to make it public. http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyPetition Click on the below Accessible Indian Currency Facebook page. Like the page to get future Updates on this. You can share the petition on to your Facebook account from here as well if required. http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyFacebookPage 2.Click on the twitter page and retweet. You may directly tweet to 3.The authorities by picking the twitter handles on the page if you Wish. Ignore if you do not have a twitter account. https://twitter.com/accessibleinr Please forward this to your contacts and ask them to share it further. It will be good if you could get in touch with your close ones in person to support in making Indian currency accessible for the blind. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “In a gentle way, you can shake the world!” On 10/2/17, Blind Graduates' Forum of India (BGFI) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Glad to have all of us united on raising our voice for Accessible > Indian Currency. The current new notes and coins and the probable new > notes are going to be impractical for persons with impairment to > identify. Indeed, we have a disaster in the making. It is too serious > a matter for us not to work on this issue until we have a solution. So > let us run together the biggest possible social media campaign and > ensure our voice is heard and acted upon immediately! > We have created an exclusive Accessible Indian Currency Facebook page, > petition on change.org and a twitter handle. Let us target obtaining > at least 20,000 signatures, hundreds of Facebook shares and twitter > tweets. If each of us contribute with getting just fifteen people to > join this campaign, we can do it! All you need to do is get at least 5 > relatives, 5 blind friends and 5 sighted friends to share the below > Facebook page and sign the petition in the next one week. If each of > us together do not spend 20 minutes every day for the next few days, > we may have to live with inaccessible currency for the next ten odd > years. It is a matter of our independence, livelihood, and dignity. > Isn’t it? > > Here are the three simple steps you need to follow: > 1. Click on the below change.org petition and sign the petition > by sharing your email id. Your message will immediately reach the > authorities by email as soon as you sign the petition. Also post the > petition on your Facebook profile and remember to make it public. > http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyPetition > > 2. Click on the below Accessible Indian Currency Facebook page. > Like the page to get future updates and coverage on this. If required > you may share the petition on your Facebook account from here as well. > http://tinyurl.com/AccessibleCurrencyFacebookPage > > 3. Click on the twitter page and retweet. You may directly tweet > to the authorities by picking the twitter handles on the page if you > wish. Ignore if you do not have a twitter account. > https://twitter.com/accessibleinr > > A smart approach could be to forward this to people who have different > set of connections and ask them to share it further. Remember, people > may not act unless you personally request and follow up with them. > > In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “In a gentle way, you can shake the world!” > > Thanks and regards, > Team Blind Graduates Forum of India. > 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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