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Welcome to Samrita Trust !
Samrita Trust is a registered, non-profitable organization established in December 2006 with a vision to change lives of blind students by providing suitable learning devices for their education. Mission of Samrita Trust “Education of visually handicapped-Preschool to employment”. The learning devices provided by Samrita Trust help visually handicapped students (hereafter referred as ‘blind students’) to study on their own and perform better in examinations to get degrees and jobs. The Trust is inspired by Louis Braille, inventor of Braille Script, and the indomitable spirit of Helen Keller
Mission
Education of blind students: Preschool to Employment.
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Information on
Blindness
About 180 million people in the world are visually handicapped or blind. One out of every 3 blind people in the world lives in India, which means 60 million Indians are blind. There are 2 million blind children in India and only 5 % of them receive any education.
Blind persons can learn to live a life of dignity and independence. They can also perform all most all the tasks of a normal person and lead a normal life. Mission of Samrita Trust is to empower the blind students, from education to employment, to become self-sufficient, Click Know More to learn more about Blindness.
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Projects
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Audio Books |
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Production of audio books, for various courses to get degrees, and competitive examinations to get jobs, and make them available FREE to all the blind students in colleges and schools in Andhra
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Braille Kits |
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To distribute Braille Kits to blind students in or out of schools in Andhra Pradesh.
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Text books in Braille |
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Blind students in schools need text books in Braille to read and study the subjects in syllabus.
Samrita Trust, with NIVH Chennai and AP Govt., is working to arrange supply of all the text books from class 1 to 10 in Braille to all the blind students in all schools with in Andhra Pradesh
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