----- Original Message ----- From: "BlindNews Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Blind News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 10:38 AM Subject: India: New career options for visually challenged.
> > India: New career options for visually challenged. > > > Economic Times - India > 23 Jul, 2007. > > > NEW DELHI: With beauty and personal care sector coming up as one of the > fastest-growing in India, it is also offering a chance for the visually > impaired > to break the traditional mould and look for new career opportunities. > > Some 50 visually challenged people have undergone training in therapeutic > massage since the Blind Relief Association, New Delhi, started a course in > collaboration > with the Vandana Luthra Curls and Curves (VLCC) Institute three years ago. > > "It is a vocational course mainly aimed at imparting scientific training > to > the blind in massaging and body therapy techniques to help them become > self-reliant," > says A David, the project manager of the Association who designed the > course, open for both men and women who passed eighth standard with > science > as one > of the subjects. > > Covering relaxation and therapeutic massage, pressure point massage and > aromatherapy, the three-month course is recognised by the VLCC, which > imparts training > to the instructors and awards certificate to the students. > > Four batches have passed out since the course was started in 2004, and > while > some 15 visually impaired students are working independently, several have > opened their own massage parlours, providing jobs to others, says Rampal > Singh, who is working as an instructor. The Association is also providing > self-employment > and placement assistance. > > "We are imparting the training free of cost to equip the visually > challenged > to make a career for themselves," Yogesh Sethi, the CEO of VLCC Health > Care > Ltd, says. > > > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/New_career_options_for_visually_challenged/articleshow/2226470.cms > > > > > > -- > BlindNews mailing list > > To contact a list moderator about a problem or to make a request, send a > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The BlindNews list is archived at: http://GeoffAndWen.com/blind/ > > To address a message to all members of the list, send mail to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Access your subscription info at: > http://blindprogramming.com/mailman/listinfo/blindnews_blindprogramming.com > > To unsubscribe via e-mail: send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in either > the subject or body of the message Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.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.in
