Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital’s initiative to give wings to visually impaired youngsters to be employable completed its first milestone.
The 1st batch of 10 students completed their 3 months long free basic computer training course successfully at Tanya Computer Centre, Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh.
The computer lab was launched by Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital jointly with Sightsavers India and with the support from Medicine Resource Foundation in October last year.
Sewa Sadan team of Col ( Retd) Dr. M. Deshpande, Consultant; Ms. Bharti Janiyani, Admin and Mr. Manoj Dhavadiya, Programme Manager gave away the certificates.
Talking about the benefit of the course, Sheetal Yadav said, “We received useful training. I will take forward this opportunity provided to me to make my future better.”
“With this training, I could appreciate the importance of computer operation in our working life shared Chaitnya Mathre on his experience on completing the training.
Nisha Solanki belongs to a large family of two brothers and four sisters (of whom 3 are married). Both her brothers and elder sister attend school. Nisha’s father is mentally challenged. The responsibility of earning is on the mother, who is a daily wage farm labourer and grandmother, who tends to her goats. Two earing members for a family of ten.
Blindness in children leads to deep impact on psychological, emotional, and socioeconomic growth to the family. A child with blindness is more likely to have delays in developmental milestones, to be more frequently hospitalized, and die during childhood than a sighted child. Such severe vision loss also adversely effects the educational activities, orientation, and mobility from the early stage of life resulting in lack of employment privilege. These differential characteristics between a sighted and non-sighted child is more obvious in developing countries. Moreover, the disability adjusted life years (DALY) loss in a blind child is far more than that of adults with blindness.