PRESENTATION – PART 3 : REACHING THE BLIND
REACHING BOTH LITERACY
& EDUCATION TO THE CHILD THE LAST MILE OF
PHYSICAL REACH The main difficulty of vast numbers of blind
children, specially
in the third world is that they are unable to reach schools by
reason of distance, disability and poverty. Our answer to this problem is : Where children cannot
come to school, the school should go to
them. Our solution is the (a) distribute UBKs to
the children and train them and
their family members at their homes on using the UBKs; and (b) impart
education to groups of children through use of the UEK at or near their homes. LET US LOOK AT A FEW
WORKING MODELS OF THE MBS |
THE This unit is at
the International established in Thiruvananthapuram in Sabriye Tenberken and
Paul Kronenberg as a unit of Braille Without Borders of This organization trains blind trainees from
Afro-Asian countries to become Social Entrepreneurs, and the MBS unit is
used to train them ITS PRICE OF INR 2.5 LAKHS OR US$ 5000 IS MET BY
DONATIONS FRONT VIEW
REAR VIEW INSIDE VIEW A Solar Module provides power wherever local power is not available |
THE These are our first
MBS units in Africa : in Less expensive but powerful motor cycles costing
us$ 2500 are used here as the regions have rugged hilly roads, These units are run by graduates of the
International Institute of Social Entrepreneurs Thiruvananthapuram, James Johnson, Johnson Kortue and Victor
Gaigaie in Julius
Braimah and Eric Ofori in |
THE An innovative approach : Three horses instead of a
three wheeler motor vehicle because of the needs of a mountainous region of This is perhaps the world’s first horse-based It has two horses for use of teachers and one to carry teaching
equipment which includes
a mobile solar module. THE UNIT’S PRICE OF INR 2.5 LAKHS OR US$ 5000 IS MET BY
DONATIONS.
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THE A FEW DISTRICT MODELS IN INDIA FOR THE UBK
DISTRIBUTION
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