[Blindtlk] Fw: The blind in India

[Sherri]

I have a friend who is a sighted member our NFB chapter. She and her husband 
are visiting India. This is what she saw.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Barbara Siry
To: Sherri
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:10 AM
Subject: The blind in India


Hi Sherri,


Not surprisingly, you see blind begging on the street.  One person I saw was 
a young man who had a small child with him.  The child would point him 
towards the tourists walking by so he could tell us how he was born blind.


There are schools for the blind -- one called Happy Home: School for the 
Blind.   I got a kick out of that one.   I also saw a wretched little street 
store, standing by itself that read: Help for the blind.  It had a telephone 
that I suppose a blind person would use to call someone.   No one was 
manning it.


There are actually more children born blind in India than anywhere else in 
the world, often from cataracts.   They are left untreated most of them 
because they're poor and there's really no health insurance.


There's gotta be a better way than this to help them.


Barbara