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Help a School for Blind Children become more accessible
  • Pancham

    Created by

    Pancham Cajla
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    This fundraiser will benefit

    Anuprayaas trust

    from Mysuru, Karnataka

Help us to make the Blind school, Tilak Nagar Mysore Accessible and Blind Friendly:
Need- The irony of a blind school not being blind friendly compelled us to take up this initiative. This project will not only help us to provide easy accessibility of the campus to the students, but also help us to educate them about the use of tactile maps and braille signages.

Scope of work- Braille signage are to be installed inside the premises (As suggested by the school authorities) and tactile maps have to be installed (a Anuprayaas initiative).

Budget Requirement:

Required Items
Quantity
Cost
Braille Plates
35
17500
Tactile Map
1
15000
Installation Charges
-
5000
Commercial RO Plant water purifier system
115,000
Total 52,500

Outcome- The signage installed would help the children identify the classrooms and other places easily. The tactile maps would help in easy navigation for the new students. It would also help in creating awareness about the concept of tactile maps so that it could later be made maximum use of when installed in other public places.

About Anuprayaas:
Anuprayaas is a Non-governmental organization established on 26 Nov 2014 with a dream of making India a blind friendly country.

Vision:
To Spread Sunshine.
Our Vision is to make India blind friendly.
As a march towards an inclusive society, Anuprayaas not only dreams of making India blind friendly but also spreads awareness about eye donation.

Objectives of Anuprayaas:
  1. To make public places accessible for blind, so that they can commute and conduct with minimal external assistance. We aim at providing appropriate braille signages & tactile maps at public places, assisting documents in braille, braille menu cards at restaurants & guiding tactile flooring at public places.
  2. To spread awareness on Eye-pledge Donation.
  3. Sensitizing sighted people towards visually impaired and motivating them to pledge for eye donation through are unique campaigns.
  4. Conducting seminars to educate people with basic disability etiquettes that should be followed while interacting with people with various disabilities.
  5. Promoting Blind cricket and conducting matches for blind players.
  6. Providing employment to people with disability hence helping them to be self sustainable.
Our Previous Projects:

Accessible India – India's First Visually Impaired Friendly Railway Station Mysore
Anuprayaas in Collaboration with South Western Railways worked on a project to make Mysore Railway Station (Karnataka, India) as India’s First Blind friendly Railway station. The project was initiated and executed by Anuprayaas.
Project got successfully completed and was inaugurated on 3rd November 2015.
The installations at the station include the following:
· Tactile maps to give people an idea about the physical layout of the station. It is basically a map with raised surfaces that describes the distance and location of the entrance, platforms, counters, washrooms etc. The map informs people where they are, which side to turn and how to reach a help desk. The Prototype was installed in phase I for testing purpose and map was refined on basis of feedback for visually impaired Individuals in Phase II.
· Train itinerary sign board that provides train names their schedules in Braille.
· Metallic Braille signs have been installed at about ten places on each platform. Placed along the railing of the staircase leading to various platforms, they provide directions and platform information.
· Restaurants, canteens and food plazas in the railways station were provided Braille menu cards as well.

India’s First Blind Friendly Train - Mysore-Varanasi Express
· Anuprayaas assisted South Western Railways in making Mysore-Varanasi Express(train no. 16229 / 16230 ) Blind friendly.
· The train was flagged on 25-Jan-2016 from Mysore railway station in the presence of Shri Pratap Simha, MP Mysore.
· All the bogies of Mysore – Varanasi Express, have been provided with metallic Braille signages inside the coaches. These indicate the location of alarm pull chains, toilets, emergency windows, and berth numbers, for the convenience of the visually challenged.
· All the 18 coaches of this first-of-its-kind train have been provided with metallic braille signage.

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