Hi I do know of a person with similar type of disability at Bangalore who is paralysed below his neck. He uses the keyboard by keying with a small piece of stick in his mouth.
Truely amazing! Harish. ----- Original Message ----- From: "renuka warriar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 6:14 PM Subject: [AI] Paralysed man in Pak uses nose to host website > The Hindu News Update Service > > News Update Service > Monday, March 3, 2008 : 1620 Hrs > > Paralysed man in Pak uses nose to host website > > Islamabad (PTI): A 22-year-old paralysed Pakistani has hosted a website -- > keying in its contents with his nose -- to encourage people with > disabilities > never to give up. > > "My name is Waqas Ahmed. I was born in 1985 and soon realised that I was > not able to use my hands and my legs the way other people could," Ahmed > writes > on his website waqasonline.com. > > "I accepted this challenge and started using the computer with my nose. I > worked hard day and night to become something. > > "I have now completed my diploma in e-commerce, and now I am a web > designer and developer," wrote Ahmed, whose lower middle-class family > moved from Balakot > in the North West Frontier Province to Lahore to help him have a better > life. > > Ahmed was a normal child till illness struck him when he was five years > old and disabled him. Ahmed, who was never admitted to school and is > completely > self-taught, now intends to host a special section for the disabled on his > website. > > "I want people with disabilities not to give up hope," said Ahmed, whose > speech is difficult to comprehend. "If I can do it so can anybody else." > > Rana Taiyab Arfani, a 55-year-old visually impaired man, has already > signed into the special section for people with disabilities. > > But Ahmed's website is not his only passion -- he spends a lot of time > gardening and likes travelling too. > > "I get seeds of different flowers and sow them in a small plot in front of > my house," he wrote on his website. "Whenever I get tired or become sad, I > sit > in the company of these attractive flowers." > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > 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
