Visually impaired

After Meenal Singhvi lost her vision at 28, she decided to launch Radio Udaan, an online radio that has around 45,000 specially-abled listeners from across the world, who participate in community programmes and offer support to one another

The 53-year-old Pramit Bhargava runs Visioapps, a Gurugram-based startup, which developed the Louie Voice Control app, a “virtual friend” for the visually impaired.

The 52-year-old Kerala man is working to find 25 lakh eye-donors in Kerala within a decade so that others may not have to endure the same fate as him.

Two students from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad - Mani Teja Lingala and Mrudul Chilmulwar - have designed a pocket-sized piece that acts as a template.

Using several assistive technologies for the visually impaired like screen reader applications, digital textbook databases, and tweaking several softwares using coding, Haroon managed to write his exams without the help of a scribe and scored an A+ in all 10 subjects.

"All the accolades and awards I have received can never match the heartfelt gratitude and blessings from my blind daughters and their families.”

Lack of teaching facilities restrict visually-impaired from pursuing education. This device and mobile application makes self-learning easy.

“We were shocked to realise that even well-educated visually-challenged adults would not have a clear idea of maps - we wanted to go a step higher than that."

These stories are filled with inspiration and will infuse in you a never-say-die attitude!

“When someone asks me how old I am, I confidently tell them 13 years. Because I wasted nearly 50 years of my life doing nothing,” says the first visually impaired person to complete the 19,000 Dolma Pass in Tibet.