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Esha- Be aware!

"Some where over the rainbow's blue birds fly..." is the famous song one hums early in the morning. We are truly blessed to have the gift of vision to take in the beautiful sights mother nature has to offer us everyday.

Imagine this; one fine day, you wake up and the whole world is black. Nothing but black. No reflections or shadows or anything. Or imagine yourself wearing n eye-patch. Nope. You wont be able to go through your daily chores the same way you go about using both your eyes.

While you can't imagine yourself in such a situation, some of us have to lead our lives visionless. Being visually impaired or hearing impaired, makes it even more difficult for them to face life as it is. Hence, Esha- The Braille Place foundation has come up with an unique idea to make the blind self reliant.

It is an non-profit initiative to empower the blind by making them independent. They aim to do this by making stationery and communications materials in Braille.

Esha has currently three avenues for the Blind and they are:

1. Braille Cards
2. Theatre Workshops
3. Accessibility Audit


So if you want to make a difference, help them by getting your calling cards embossed in Braille. And this will cost you only Re.1!

To find out more, click on http://www.eshabraille.wordpress.com/

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