*My Charter as a V.I person (International Day of Persons with Disabilities)*
1. Be polite & remain polite to everyone. Let it be your habit. 2. Smile and keep smiling at every sweet, harsh, crude or insulting words and situation 3. Appreciate, admire and express gratefulness at even the smallest favour by others specially the sighted. 4. Be responsive to one and all, without exception. Always reply a call, a missed call or massage, how-so-ever un-important to you. Never presume the other person will understand your silence because of your blindness. 5. Offer help to others for whatever you are capable of. Your offer is not lightly to be accepted. 6. If you are low vision, do not try to pose as fully sighted. Others can easily make out. No one likes to be fooled! Help is held back, if you pose! 7. Avoid being authoritative with subordinates, if you are lucky to have them! No able bodied person likes to be ordered by a disabled! 8. Try to get rid of the habit of using your disability as a qualification! It does not confer rights upon you. This makes us a subject of pity & charity only! 9. Donate money and blood, whenever you can! 10. Donate your eyes, if your Cornea is healthy. Ailments like RP, drying up of optic nerve or Macular degeneration, Etc., do not normally spoil the Cornea. These will be gorged out only after our death! 11. Pledge donating your body or organs, in case of brain death! As such a donation will make you a living memory in your society! 12. Marry but produce children only after Genetic counseling! Else adopt daughters. They will be your for all your life!!! 13. Support the Disabled persons by patronising their endeavours, like subscribing to the YouTube channels started by them and pressing the like button for each episode. This may help them earn a little more! 14. Support the disabled persons by purchasing books written by them and promoting them amongst friends and relatives. This helps in bringing about a positive change, in attitudes & perspective towards the disabled community. 15. Ask for help explicitly without waiting for others to understand your need, on their own. Thank them for the help profusely. Sighted people like it!!! *Let’s make sure we are useful to this world!* -Arun Kumar Dua Advisor Disha –A non-profit Producing Audio Books for the V.I http://audiobooks.ourcivilsociety.com/ -- 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.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAPwPya9JDWN3OqUxCc1iyrcmPmG01QYoE1rOTVmjYNfZf4%3DDCw%40mail.gmail.com.
