Training center

I recently learned about the existence of an organisation founded in 1986, BLIND Incorporated, which is still mainly based on teaching blind people how to live a successful life as independent individuals. Indeed, BLIND, inc. helps severe visually impaired ones to deal with blindness and it acts as a training center where they become more aware of how to develop some skills and confidence in their everyday life. Most become more confident with learning how to read the Braille, with using a white cane, with learning how to manage their home and their schedule. Furthermore, there is a comprehensive program which lets blind students to integrate their theoretical knowledge (what they are learning in class) into everyone's everyday life. This leads to make them gaining experience and becoming more comfortable to deal with their blindness and the outside world. Indeed, the main objective is to make the students understand that their loss of vision does not have to become a barrier in their personal achievement towards a fullfilled life and to realize the level of their potential to accomplish alternative tasks that were initially associated to the requirement of sight. Moreover, on the BLIND, inc. web site, it is mentioned that even some members of the staff are blind who represents positive models to the students. In fact, the whole tutoring session is mainly done in order to help blind ones to gain self-assurance, independence, and then, an employment. On this web site, it is also declared that a recent study has estimated that 84% of the graduated obtain a job within a year of graduation. which clearly shows a certain progress in their work in eliminating the 70% unemployment of BLIND, inc. by offering a better quality of life from this minority group, and then, hope for blind people is much more perceived as being rational.

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