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23rd October 2017

Dear Supporters,

Mitra Jyothi is happy to announce that we now have a Braille Library with 250 books covering various topics. The books are in Kannada and English with a majority being in Kannada to accordance with the demographics of the beneficiaries we support. These 250 books added include fiction, non-fiction and other general reading material. with your support, these books were transcribed to Braille and produced in Mitra Jyothi over the past year.
This has been possible only with your support of this program! Please check our website http://www.mitrajyothi.org/ to get a copy of our Braille book Catalog.

Apart from these 250 books, we have worked on School Text Books (Karnataka State Syllabus) for classes 7 through 10 and sent 1500+ text books to 10 different schools for the blind across Karnataka. The Schools listed below.
  1. Rangarao Memorial School, Mysore
  2. Maheswari Blind School, Belagam
  3. Asha Kirana School for the Blind, Kempana halli, Chikkamagalur
  4. Sri Manik Prabhu Academy for the Blind, Bidar
  5. Mathru Educational Trust for the Blind, Yalahanka
  6. Sri Sharadadevi Andhara Vikasa Kendra, Shivamogga
  7. Govt. School for the Blind Girls, Davanger
  8. Sri Manik Prabhu Academy for the Blind, Raichur
  9. Jyothi Seva School for the Blind, Bengaluru
  10. KWAB, Vijayapura
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Regards

Dear Supporters,

Mitra Jyothi is happy to announce that we now have a Braille Library with 250 books covering various topics. The books are in Kannada and English with a majority being in Kannada to accordance with the demographics of the beneficiaries we support. These 250 books added include fiction, non-fiction and other general reading material. with your support, these books were transcribed to Braille and produced in Mitra Jyothi over the past year.
This has been possible only with your support of this program! Please check our website http://www.mitrajyothi.org/ to get a copy of our Braille book Catalog.

Apart from these 250 books, we have worked on School Text Books (Karnataka State Syllabus) for classes 7 through 10 and sent 1500+ text books to 10 different schools for the blind across Karnataka. The Schools listed below.
  1. Rangarao Memorial School, Mysore
  2. Maheswari Blind School, Belagam
  3. Asha Kirana School for the Blind, Kempana halli, Chikkamagalur
  4. Sri Manik Prabhu Academy for the Blind, Bidar
  5. Mathru Educational Trust for the Blind, Yalahanka
  6. Sri Sharadadevi Andhara Vikasa Kendra, Shivamogga
  7. Govt. School for the Blind Girls, Davanger
  8. Sri Manik Prabhu Academy for the Blind, Raichur
  9. Jyothi Seva School for the Blind, Bengaluru
  10. KWAB, Vijayapura
For regular Mitra Jyothi updates, please follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mitra.jyothi

Regards
27th October 2016
Dear Supporters,

Mitra Jyothi is very happy and proud to say that the Kannada Braille Book Printing Project has started and production of some books have already begin at our Braille Press! This is such an exciting project! Imagine the smile on every child's face as she/he reads through these lovely story books. Simple pleasures that last with us for a lifetime - now in Braille!

Sincere thanks to all our supporters who have made our Crowd Funding Initiative for this project a big success! You have made this project possible!!! Many thanks to the employees of Persistent Systems and Persistent Foundation for supporting this cause as well! As each child a smiles with happiness reading her/his book - your contribution is acknowledged in immeasurable ways!

You are welcome to come and be a part of the production process, come visit us!

Team, Mitra Jyoti

Visit us at https://www.facebook.com/mitra.jyothi/media_set?set=a.1002335763209402.1073741844.100002989634713&type=3 to see more photos of this Project in Progress
Dear Supporters,

Mitra Jyothi is very happy and proud to say that the Kannada Braille Book Printing Project has started and production of some books have already begin at our Braille Press! This is such an exciting project! Imagine the smile on every child's face as she/he reads through these lovely story books. Simple pleasures that last with us for a lifetime - now in Braille!

Sincere thanks to all our supporters who have made our Crowd Funding Initiative for this project a big success! You have made this project possible!!! Many thanks to the employees of Persistent Systems and Persistent Foundation for supporting this cause as well! As each child a smiles with happiness reading her/his book - your contribution is acknowledged in immeasurable ways!

You are welcome to come and be a part of the production process, come visit us!

Team, Mitra Jyoti

Visit us at https://www.facebook.com/mitra.jyothi/media_set?set=a.1002335763209402.1073741844.100002989634713&type=3 to see more photos of this Project in Progress
4th October 2016
Dear Supporters,

Mitra Jyothi is proud to say that we have started working on this project - Some more very interesting books have been purchased for this project from the donations that have come in. Suggestions were taken from our most awesome library members. One of our library members Mr. Nagaraj who has been using our Audio Books for studies right from his high school times and successfully completed his education and currently working in State Bank of Mysore has given us suggestions from a wide variety of topics including but not limited to biographies of great leaders and achievers like Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, Louis Braille, books on our great Gurus like Sri Purandaradasaru, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, books about our Fundamental Rights and Duties, Law and how it protects us, Healthcare, Recipies, Short stories from around the world, collection of proverbs, puzzles, Basavanna's VachanagLu, inspiring personalities like Saalumarada Thimakka, stories of Young Achievers, some interesting history books and of course fantasies and wonderful stories! Many thanks Mr Nagaraj! Many thanks to all of you our dear supporters!
Dear Supporters,

Mitra Jyothi is proud to say that we have started working on this project - Some more very interesting books have been purchased for this project from the donations that have come in. Suggestions were taken from our most awesome library members. One of our library members Mr. Nagaraj who has been using our Audio Books for studies right from his high school times and successfully completed his education and currently working in State Bank of Mysore has given us suggestions from a wide variety of topics including but not limited to biographies of great leaders and achievers like Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, Louis Braille, books on our great Gurus like Sri Purandaradasaru, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, books about our Fundamental Rights and Duties, Law and how it protects us, Healthcare, Recipies, Short stories from around the world, collection of proverbs, puzzles, Basavanna's VachanagLu, inspiring personalities like Saalumarada Thimakka, stories of Young Achievers, some interesting history books and of course fantasies and wonderful stories! Many thanks Mr Nagaraj! Many thanks to all of you our dear supporters!