Our is one of the prominent registered Social Organization, working for the social awareness and All Round development of the blind. In this connection we are implementing the following programs and schemes.
1. Scholarship Scheme:
We are offering scholarship to those blind students who are studying from class 8 to post graduation. We are glad to inform you that, there were 122 blind students beneficiaries from 2013. 130 students have been beneficiaries from 2014, 135 from 2015, and 129 students in the year 2016 this way total 486 blind students are beneficiaries under this scheme for last 4 years. This way the poor blind students are benefited from the scholarship, student can remit examination fees; afford the bus passes and books or educational stationary etc. with the help of this fund received form society.
2. Self Employment:
We do provide good assistance in self-employment to the needy blind people. We would like to inform you that, in the last three years we supported 32 blind people for self employment. 6 blind candidates benefitted of this scheme in the year 2013, 9 candidates in 2014 and 10 candidates in 2015 and 7 candidates in 2016. Out of these total 32 candidates 23 candidates are running the stationary, cutlery stores and 9 candidates are selling toys in the railways, thus all of them has maintained themselves and their families.
3. Educational help to create new educational equipments and free distribution.
A. Education and Training: We are running musical academy named as 'Brahmanand Musical Academy ` at Nashik and imparting free musical training and education for the blind people, with this help the blind people can get a job or get self employed either by running Orchestra or music class. At present total 24 candidates are learning music and musical instrument in the academy.
B. The Organization is also running a computer training center for the blind with the help of talking software, with the help of this training the blind people can work efficiently in the Government offices and service industry. Similarly they can have better educational facility, study material and book reading facility with the help of talking software.
C. Publication of Brail Books: Lions club of Pune donated the Brail printer to BWO, with the help of this printer we published books: Nishabda (English Grammar Book) with 3 Editions which helped 1150 students to improve their English Skills specially in rural area. To develop the health awareness among the blinds this year we are planning to publish 'Arogya Sanjivani' health related book which will help the blinds to take care of their health.
4. Sports Activities:
We arrange various types of sports and games events for the blinds, in which, tournament for the following games and sports are organized:
Athletics, Chess and Cricket etc. these tournaments are organized every year on State as well as National Level, we are proud to inform you that in the year 2014, 7 of our blind players played and won the cricket world cup of blind cricket held in South Africa. Among these 7 players of us 2 were from Maharashtra 3 from Gujarat and 1 each from Andhra Pradesh and Punjab. For last 3 years ONGC is helping us to conduct these tournaments successfully.
5. We are also conducting the eye checkup camps in the rural areas, so the poor people who cannot afford visiting eye specialists doctors. This year we helped 5 poor people for their cataract surgery and distributed spectacles for free to many needy people.
6. We Helped poor blind people by organizing their marriage and also supported them by offering the required things for their new life like- kitchenware, and other necessary things. In the year 2014 we helped 1 couple, 1 couple in 2015 and 3 couples in 2016 thus, we arranged and supported total 6 couples in last three years. We hope the number will keep growing.
7.Simultaneously, We run awareness programs about blindness in rural areas for all people and also we conduct personality development camps for blind people to help make their life better.
This way we are trying to get involved in various social activities for the blind and also trying to make their life easy with distribution of helpful material for their daily life as well as educational life.
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