Monday, August 2, 2010

An Audio Library for the Visually Challenged Community

Name of the project - Hearing pages

Possibility of the Project : Building Hope and confidence by opening the flood gates of knowledge.


Hearing Pages is a community project aimed at providing the visually challenged community with empowering /motivational materials for their self development and textbooks, reference books; guides used for their academic requirements in audio formats by setting up an audio library. The resource will be available to the community free of charge. This project is carried out as part of the Self Expression and Leadership Program (SELP) Initiative offered by Landmark Education (www.landmarkeducation.com) and the major part of the resource material is being sourced from Rotary Helen Keller Talking Book Library (ROHTALK), Madurai, India.

The audio library will be housed at
The College Students and Graduates Association of the Blind (CSGAB)
Thakkar Baba Vidyalaya, 58 Venkatnarayana Road, T.Nagar
Chennai – 600 017 Phone: 044 24348628
Web Site: www.csgab.org


Benefits

Hearing pages benefits a large section of visually impaired persons in the following categories:

• Students studying in Schools/colleges
• Research Scholars
• Persons appearing for Competitive exams
• Visually Impaired Persons in general

Mr Rajenthiran (Raju) has initiated this project and he can be contacted at p.rajenthiran@gmail.com

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