Dear All,

Thank you for your support

Mitra Jyothi conducts various programs to inspire and enable the visually impaired. Braille Transcription is one of our keystone ongoing programs. This program is hosted by the Braille Transcription Centre at Mitra Jyothi.

Braille Transcription Center (BTC): The BTC converts books in various languages to the Braille format. This centre has grown significantly since its inception in 1999 when it started as a small facility with a simple Braille Embosser to today’s full-fledged Braille Press.  Based on requirements from visually impaired people or from special schools/colleges or from organizations like NFB or from corporates, the BTC converts Educational Books/magazines/specific articles/text books and selected items of interest into electronic format and prints it in Braille format.
More than 30,00,000 pages have been printed at this facility and more than 3,00,000 pages have been scanned and saved in electronic formats for creating e-texts in the past three years alone. Books in various Indian languages like Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Gujarati are printed along with English in the BTC.

Though the world is going more electronic each day, the importance of paper and pencil cannot be undermined in anyway. They are the first and most essential accessories to education as a small child goes to school and starts learning his/her first alphabets and writes them. Braille – writing and reading plays the same role in the world of the visually disabled. Braille opens up the world of education and knowledge to the visually disabled/impaired.

Continuous support towards this cause will help Mitra Jyothi to help the Visually Impaired students with braille books for their education.

Campaign link to contribute
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/DonateforBrailleBooks

Dear All,

Many Visually Impaired students are in need of braille books and the funds we get through Milaap help us to fulfill their needs.

Mitra Jyothi has taken up the big project of printing textbooks in Braille for students of class 1 through class 10 (Karnataka State syllabus) for both English and Kannada medium. Providing textbooks in Braille free of cost to 40+ schools/institutions for the blind across Karnataka has been our flag-ship project since 2017!

Along with textbooks, books of various kinds including but not limited to fiction, non-fiction, inspirational life stories, cookery, sports, leaders, health & hygiene, legal rights and other topics are being transcribed into Braille in Kannada and English for children of all age groups. These books shall be used to build Braille Libraries across the various schools for the blind in the state of Karnataka.

Dear Supporters,

Thank you all for the love and support.

Activities covered at Mitra Jyothi under the project are listed below: Convert to Braille format, proof read and save master braille copy.

1. Convert PDF to word using PDF converter or OCR based on the type of file (editable pdf/image pdf).
2. Edit it to accessible format especially for tables, images, magazine format to normal and correct mistakes if any.
3. Add breaks wherever necessary to indicate paragraph, chapters and other logical breaks as per Braille requirement.
4. Print the braille books, organize and bind.
5. Proof read a copy and do random check of others for pages.
6. Pack and post to students across pan India especially Karnataka.

Thanks