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Deafblind Awareness Week [16] [17] runs at the end of June to coincide with the birthday of Helen Keller. [18] In 2021, it fell on the week of 28 June - 4 July. [ 19 ] The week aims to make dual sensory loss a more widely known condition; educating people about what it is and letting them know what to look out for in themselves and others.
In 2021, Sense campaigned to highlight the exclusion and social isolation of disabled people during the COVID-19 pandemic. [14] The charity was also involved in highlighting the abuse of a woman and her deafblind sister for removing a face mask. [15]
[21] [22] It was not possible to find a host nation able to cater for all the sports. Instead the IBSA Goalball and Judo Paralympic Games qualifying tournaments were held in Fort Wayne , Indiana , United States of America in June–July 2019, in conjunction with the federation's four-yearly international general assembly.
RNIB was first established on 16 October 1868 as the British and Foreign Society for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind. [7] [8] The first meeting, which was held at 33 Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, involved founder Thomas Rhodes Armitage (a physician who was partially sighted) and Daniel Conolly, W W Fenn [a] and Dr James Gale [b] (all three of whom were blind). [8]
An important achievement of Vision 2020 was improving awareness of the burden of blindness. Getting prevention of blindness onto the healthcare agenda of the WHO and its member states ensured that those countries included allocations for eye care in their budgets. World Sight Day also helps to raise awareness of blindness and visual impairment. [8]
Vista, previously known as The Royal Leicestershire, Rutland and Wycliffe Society for the Blind, is an English independent charity. It provides services for blind and partially sighted people of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. After many years of operations, [1] it took its current name in 2002. [2]
Sight Scotland (formerly known as Royal Blind) is a Scottish Charity based in Edinburgh, Scotland founded in 1793. [1] The charity provides care, education and employment for people of all ages who are blind or partially sighted. [2] Sight Scotland provides the following services: Royal Blind School, Forward Vision, Scottish Braille Press and ...
It was originally the Preston Industrial Institute for the Blind, then the Institute for Blind Welfare and until 2000 the Preston and North Lancashire Blind Welfare Society. It is now named after William Wilding Galloway , a cotton merchant from Preston who left £40,000 to local charities including £10,000 to the society when he died in 1936.