Seeing and hearing is believing
Business Today recently ranked Gurgaon, a prospering Tier II city in the Haryana state southwest of Delhi, one of the best places to live and work in India. For 122 visually-impaired students, Gurgaon is also one of the best places to attend school.
With the support of the Amway Opportunity Foundation (AOF), AICB (Capt. Chandan Lal) Special School For The Blind opened the AOF-AICB Centre of Excellence. The Centre features computers equipped with specialized speech software that helps school-aged students hear words as they type. This enables them to hone basic computing skills and surf the web.
This is the first school centre of its kind in Gurgaon, and the 11th the AOF has opened throughout India. As quoted in the 20 August print edition of The Hindustan Times, the secretary general of the school, J.K. Kaul says:
“It is important in today’s time to be technically strong. This effort by the AOF will surely help out visually impaired children to learn with technology and upgrade their skills.”
The AOF’s vision is to enable less privileged children to lead better lives. These children in Gurgaon are a very big part of that vision.