Dear Mohammad: I feel the general level of awareness on the capabilities of a VH in itself is very low. For instance, when I mention that I work for an organisation (I don't often reveal that I'm a journalist), some people immediately ask things like: "Who is the one who employed someone who can't see?"
I'm sure most of us aren't terribly offended by such questions any more as we have become somewhat immuned to it (after listening to such questions for so long). So, I feel it's important to start writing any article on the basic capabilities of a VH. Secondly, the issue of employment is far more important. Though it's heartening to find that awareness levels are improving, it still needs to be emphasized that a VH doesn't require anything more than the essential assistive technology to work. I'm sure that many would have heard Shanti's presentation at CII's special conference on disability, but still mentioning the kind of work she has been doing is still relevant, because these are not things that comes to people's minds instantly and even if does, many may be interested to get her contact etc. Thirdly, Pl make a detail mention of the PWD act. I find the awareness about this piece of legislation is very low. Pl mention what the act provides and what it doesn't, because this would enable us to create widespread backing from the industries for our cause. Finally, pl mention about accessibility. If these industries are committed to the cause of the disability, they should show their support through building accessible facilities and installing technologies that improves accessibility. I'm sure most of these things are already in your mind, but still I thought putting these in a proper order may be of help to you. Warm Regards, L. Subramani -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shadab Husain Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Confederations of indian Industries (CII) Newsletter *********************** No virus was detected in the attachment no filename Your mail has been scanned by InterScan MSS. *********************** Hello, in my humble opinion, the movies in which blinds people are caricatured are excessively dissolute and hateful. I feel very bedraggled and disappointed while sitting and hearing laughters of other people. We are emotionally tortured by these flagrant movies. --- Mohammed Asif Iqbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > I am suppose to write a news article on present > scenario of disability in India. this article would > appear in the CII newsletter which comes out > monthly. My deadline is Saturday August 11, 2006 > for the same. I would highly appreciate if you guys > could help me out with the followings: > 1. point of highlights to be taken in the article. > 2. issues pertaining to employment of disability. > 3. anything important. > Note: This article would go to all corporates > members and concerned government agencies. As we all > know, first impression is only impression so keying > on doing a good job on the same. > Hense looking forward for your valuable input on the > same. > Thanks and regards > Asif > To unsubscribe send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make > any other changes, please visit the list home page > at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n > __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
