[Blindtlk] Fw: The blind in India

[Mark Tardif]

Oh, I agree with Barbara, how terrible.  For some reason I thought India, 
for all its poverty, actually had a more advanced, user-friendly health 
insurance system.  Don't know where I got that idea.



Mark Tardif
Nuclear arms will not hold you.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Sherri
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6:41 AM
To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
Cc: nfbf-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindtlk] Fw: The blind in India

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



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