2. LOUIS BRAILLE
Louis Braille (04-01-1809 –
06-01-1852) was a blind
French teacher; and he
was famous because
he invented the braille
system.
3. WHY WAS HE BLIND?
When he was 3 years old he was playing with a
awl in his father’s craft room. He started to run
with the awl in his hand and he fell to
the ground; so he nailed the awl in his left
eye. That infection damaged his right eye too;
and in that moment, Louise Braille was blind
4. HOW DID LOUIS BRAILLE STUDIED?
• Louise Braille’s family thought that Louise couldn’t
study and write because he was blind.
• Louis Braille went to a school for 2 years. He was a
really outdone student because he knew a lot of
maths and music (he played the organ and the
violonchelo). In 1819, when he was 10 years old, he
went to a school for blinds of Paris.
5. BARBIER AND BRAILLE
One day, in a terrace of a bar in Paris, Braille
heard someone saying that a captain called
Charles Barbier invented a system of
comunication in the darkness; so in
1821Charles Barbier went to Braille’s school
and both worked together to find a system of
comunication for blinds.
6. BARBIER AND BRAILLE
One day, in a terrace of a bar in
Paris, Braille heard someone saying that
a captain called Charles Barbier invented
a system of comunication in the darkness;
so in 1821Charles Barbier went to
Braille’s school and both worked together
to find a system of comunication for
blinds.
7. INVENTING A NEW CODE
During a summer, Louis Braille devoted
to invent a new code. He worked with
the leather and he made wounds
himself. He combined circles, triangles
and squares to form the different
letters.
8. BRAILLE
Braille is named after its creator, Louis Braille,
a Frenchman who lost his sight as a result of a
childhood accident. In 1824, at the age of
fifteen, he developed a code for the French
alphabet as an improvement on night writing.
He published his system, which subsequently
included musical notation, in 1829.
13. THE KAHANI PROJECT
• Reviving the lost art of story-telling, Ajay Dasgupta’s The Kahani
Project is making stories accessible to children across all nationalities
and disabilities. Started on the eve of Children’s Day in 2012, the team
at The Kahani Project has crowdsourced over 600 stories on it online
repository, which has been accessed over one lakh times. From
folklore to fables, The Kahani Project’s open-sourced, online library
has access to stories recorded in English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati,
Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Sindhi. Using MP3 players,
the team of Kahani Project works closely with special schools helping
visually impaired children download and listen to various stories that
they otherwise didn’t have access to.
14. MITRA JYOTI
• Madhu Singhal and her non-profit Mitra Jyoti have been
empowering visually impaired individuals with various
programmes and material for over 26 years now. From humble
beginnings in a garage to now housing South India’s first private
Braille press, Mitra Jyoti has marked an incredible journey. Mitra
Jyoti’s famous ‘talking book library’ has a vast collection of
around 3,800 books in CD/cassette formats. The trust also runs a
full-fledged job placement cell that tries to bridge the gap
between differently-abled job seekers and potential recruiters.
15. ACCESS FOR ALL
• Twenty-seven-year-old Siddhant Shah is India’s first architect to
render heritage projects and museums accessible to the visually
impaired. A heritage architect by profession, Siddhant set
up Access for ALL in Mumbai in 2016 to push physical and social
limits in spaces of cultural significance to create an inclusive
experience for all visitors. He created tactile surfaces and
textures for visually impaired visitors, and published India and
Pakistan’s first museum Braille publication with large fonts and
tactile imagery to encourage partially sighted and blind
audiences.
16. NABET
• National Association for the Blind (Employment & Training) also
known as Nabet is working towards providing job opportunities
for the visually impaired with the help of a unique employment
linked training programme in the IT sector that has resulted in a
regular source of livelihood. Over the past six years, Nabet India
has found employment for over 500 people. It has received
various recognitions, including the Washington DC’s ‘Global
Good Fund’ 2017, and London’s ‘Queen’s Young Leader’, 2017
awards.
17. SARTHAK EDUCATIONAL
TRUST
• Sarthak Educational Trust is a holistic platform for
providing skills and empowering the disabled.
Founded by Dr Jitender Aggarwal, a dentist who lost
his vision due to macular degeneration, this
organisation has so far placed nearly 10,000 disabled
candidates in various sectors including retail, BPOs, IT,
and hospitality, through its 13 skill development centres
present across India.
