Donate a walking stick, donate vision to a visually challenged person

What is your worst nightmare? An injury? A fall? Complete darkness? Ever been to a place so dark you can't make out anything?  For some people, it's reality. 

Each one of us has tried to imagine what it's like to be visually challenged. But we can never come close to it. To eliminate color, sights, written characters, or any visual from our lives, would be devastating. But for some, it isn't a choice. A congenital disability, an accident, has left them visually challenged for life. 

Every routine task, every step a visually challenged person takes, is a struggle. They could trip, run into a vehicle, or gravely injure themselves. A visually challenged person is dependent on someone to show them the way, which leaves them feeling like a burden on their loved ones.

A simple walking stick is a boon for the visually challenged. It can guide them, make them aware of steps, or any obstacle in the way. A commodity like this one is sometimes not readily available for them. It's either not sold where some visually challenged folks live or too expensive. Which is an unfair reason for them to suffer. Life has been cruel enough, taking away their sight. 

Help be their eyes, donate a walking stick. A visually challenged person will be grateful for your donation, and be able to go on with his/her life. 

Beneficiary NGO:

1. The Saksham Trust : Saksham Trust was established in 2003 under the leadership of Mr. Dipendra Manocha and Ms. Rummi K. Seth, with the sole purpose of empowering persons with visually challengedness. It plays a key role in advocacy and act as a service provider in the field of rehabilitation, education, training and assistive technology. In addition to a school for children with visual impairment and multiple disabilities, it runs a distribution center of assistive aids and appliances for education, mobility and independent living.

Where is it located:

486, Double Storey, Double Storey II, New Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi 110060

2. Devnar School for Visually Challenged: ‘Devnar’ is a combination of two words DEV (God) and NAR (Man), highlighting the fact that there is God in every man. If the entire humanity is the family of God, the visually challenged children are special members in it. And so, they should be given every possible opportunity to develop their potentialities and latent talents. Devnar Foundation tries to unleash the incredible capacity of students by giving them value based education thus enabling them to realize that within them can be found the skill, knowledge and motivation to make something special happen.

Where is it located:

Devnar School for Visually Challenged. Mayuri Marg. Begumpet. Hyderabad - 500026

3. Abhisti welfare Society: The vision of Abhisti Welfare Society is a happy and healthy person whose rights are protected and honored in a society that is built on respect for dignity, justice and equity for all. Their mission is to enable the people to take responsibility for the situation of the deprived and so motivate them to seek resolution through individual and collective action thereby enabling to realize their full potential.

Where is it located: 

Door Number : 1-29/5 , Peerzadiguda Gramapanchayath,Peerzadiguda , Uppal,Hyderabad,Telangana,500039,India.

4. Global Association for Visually Challenged Handicapped and Destitute Trust: This institution is working for rehabilitation of handicapped persons who is economically backward and similarly neglected and frustrated by the society. This institution gives financial help to many handicapped persons and made them self-reliant. It helps in many other ways for example.

Where is it located:

2, Diamonds Housing Society, M.H.B. Colony. Pathanwadi Marg. Malad (E). Mumbai - 400 097. India

5. Ambubai Residential School of Visually Challenged Girls: Dattu Agarwal, visually challenged since the age of 3 and a retired professor started the Ambubai Residential School for Visually Challenged Girls in Gulbarga in 2007. He founded the school in the memory of his mother, Ambu Bai. They have 75 students currently studying there. He’s trying to build a new safer, challenged friendly building in order to provide the students a better facility.

Where is it located:

House No. 4-282 Maktampura, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India. 585101

Note: Donations made towards this fundraiser in INR on and after 29th September 2020 are eligible for Indian Tax Exemption.