[Faith-talk] Blind people in 2014. Challenges and barriers.

[Poppa Bear]

Hello Mustafa, I know that you are always seeking to improve your ability to 
communicate in the English language, so I took a little time to make some 
changes in what you emailed. I understand that one of the hardest things to 
do is write in another language. There is sometimes difficulty in knowing 
how to mix the informal and formal aspects of conversational writing when 
you are not a native speaker of that particular language. I hope this is 
helpful to you in some way.



Hello everyone, I hope that you are all doing well, and that all of your 
Holiday plans work out, and if not then I hope they go even better than you 
anticipated.

Today I intend to talk about the ambitions I have for blind people and some 
goals for blind people in 2014. As I talk about these plans for blind 
individuals, I am not talking about the domestic aspect of our goals, but 
rather, my aim is to ask this question globally.

Have we really improved blind people's employment rate in some parts of the 
world?

As blind people, I think we need to be more interconnected on an 
international basis. I believe that we are very efficient at doing this on 
an individual level, But, we should make an effort to create more 
organizational groups with greater levels of communication.

I have always wanted to reach the World Blind Union, because I would like to 
communicate with them regarding the employment rate for   blind people in 
Egypt, and reach their international coordinator for some partnership 
proposals.

     I have looked at their website under the contact us page, and I did not 
find that particular information.

I have learned that they are located in Toronto Canada, but I am sure that 
they are willing to reach out to blind people outside of their country.

I would like to be able to benefit from their experience on tackling 
legislative issues, what obstacles they have had to confront, and how they 
were successful to overcome them.

I am convinced that the main barrier for employment for the blind is a 
deficiency of legal guarantees. As a community, We should really make it a 
priority to work on this. We should not work on this randomly or 
individually, but We should instead work together to integrate and establish 
legislation that would increase the employment rate for adequate blind 
applicants. Here in Egypt, we need to permanently abandon the 5% law, 
because  the employment rate should essentially depend on a person's 
qualifications and experience, in spite of any other irrelevant 
circumstances bassed on a %.
Canada is known for being the top worldwide country on recognizing the human 
rights principles.  Thus, I would like to benefit and learn from their 
experiences because I believe that by understanding their policies it would 
help to further these goals.
Finally, I want to add another personal goal for 2014. I would like to 
participate in improving the employment rate for blind people in Egypt, by 
emphasizing the qualifications of the individual, instead of hiring a 
certain number of individuals to fulfill a %. This is my battle for Egyptian 
blind people in 2014. And I will initially relate to the constitution draft, 
which has been scheduled for referendum in the fourteenth and the fifteenth 
of January. This draft supposedly guarantees the right for blind people, but 
we will see how true this is.

I wish you all a very pleasant provenience in 2014.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post, and Happy New Year.

Mostafa.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mostafa" <mostafa.almahdy at gmail.com>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 12:38 PM
Subject: [Faith-talk] Blind people in 2014. Challenges and barriers.


> Hello everyone.
>
> I hope you all are keeping really well, and that your Holiday goes 
> typically as planned, if not even better.
>
> Today I intended to talk about our ambitions for blind people goals in 
> 2014.
>
> What we have planned on that regard so far?
>
> I am not talking about the domestic level.
>
> My aim is to ask that question globally.
>
> Have we improved the blind people employment rate in some parts of the 
> world?
>
> As blind people, I think  we need to be more interconnected on 
> international basis.
>
> I think, that we are significantly prosperous on doing that on individual 
> level.
>
> But, we demand to proceed into organizational and integrative levels.
>
> I always wanted to reach the World Blind Union.
>
> I want to communicate with them regarding the employment rate for   blind 
> people in Egypt.
>
> I want to reach their international coordinator for partnership proposals.
>
>     I looked at their website under the contact us page, and I could not 
> find that particular entitlement.
>
> I just learned that they based in Toronto, Canada.
>
> But I am sure that they are keen to reach out.
>
> I want to benefit from their experience on tackling the legislative 
> procedures, what obsticles they had to confront, and how they were 
> successful to perfectly overcome them.
>
> I am incisively convinced, that the main barrier of blind people 
> employment is the deficiency of the legal guarantees.
>
> We demand to substantially work on that.
>
> We should not work on that  randomly or individually.
>
> We rather have to unitedly integrate on establishing the legislation that 
> impressively amends the employment rate for adequate blind applicants.
>
>     In Egypt, we have to permanently abandon the 5% law.
>
> The employment rate has  to essentially depend on your qualifications and 
> achievments, in spite of any irrelevant circumstances.
>
> Canada is known for being the top worldwide country on recognizing the 
> humanrights principles.
>
>  Thus, I want to benefit from any experience therein on that regard.
>
> Finally, I want to add another personal goal for 2014.
>
> I want to participate in improving the employment rate for blind people in 
> Egypt, and it has to depend on the qualification, not a certain percentage 
> to be fulfilled.
>
> This is my battle for Egyptian blind people in 2014.
>
> And I will initially relate to the constitution draft, which has been 
> scheduled for referendum in the fourteenth and the fifteenth of January.
>
> It supposedly guarantees that right for blind people.
>
> We will see about that.
>
> I wish you all a pleasant provenience of 2014.
>
> Thank you so much for reading my post, and Happy New Year.
>
> Mostafa.
>
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