You are right mane thing is that in blind schools there is no quality education after completed 10 class also they dont no how to behave they look like they dont have basic education we are young indians we have to work on it. That is why no one hiring but one think I want to say with you guys that Enable-India doing great job I am visually impaired I had training at enable India.they only placed me now I am working .
On 1/15/13, ss sarfudeen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > The quality of education imparted at the blind schools may fall short > of the required skills and practical training in some cases. But, > undoubtedly, vision impaired students do go beyond their formal > education to pursue courses at Graduate, Post Graduate and Doctorate > levels these days and I am sure you all will agree with me on this. > The fact is that there are a number of deserving candidates who even > after gaining the skills and training required by the industry, do not > attain employment. What we need to understand here is that it is not > the mindsets of visually challenged students alone that need to be > changed, but that of the respective institutions and employers who are > highly discriminative towards them. > > Let me draw your attention to a very serious point. Some of us here on > the list must be aware of the job portal called jobability launched > for people with disabilities. This is an initiative taken by Leonard > Cheshire Disability - South Asia, supported by Accenture. The irony is > that the supporting organisation Accenture does not hire people with > visual impairments simply because of their attitudinal barriers. > Please note that this is not my personal statement. I was told this by > a person working for the Leonard Cheshire Disability Home in the > Chennai location and he also added that they find it very difficult to > place people with vision impairment in any organisation. > > At this juncture, I would like to ask one serious question to you all. > Kindly enlighten me as to how many NGOs working in the area of > disability have employed people with vision impairment in particular > and also continue to do so, and if so, in what numbers? We can't keep > talking about this without the actual facts and figures. > > It is not only our educational institutions that need to be blamed for > not imparting high quality of education with the necessary > employability skills and training for these students. A lot more needs > to be done by the so-called organisations working for the vision > impaired segment by undertaking rigorous lobbying efforts and > advocacy programs towards sensitizing the society at large in the > areas of reducing social barriers, education, training, empowerment, > employment, equity in pay, recognition and so on. As one of the > members Ajay pointed out, corrective and immediate action needs to be > taken by channelising our efforts consistently in the right direction > so as to bring forth the desired change. > > @Avichal, > The vijob site is fine to my knowledge, as far as accessibility is > concerned. But I found that the section on Job Lists does not contain > any job listing. So, can you please explain the purpose of this > section? > > In addition, it would be better to include a separate section on > Clients/Employers providing the list of employers who are registered > on this site, just like the section on the list of job seekers. > > Regards, > > Sultana > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > 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 > > -- Regards Thanking you [email protected] [email protected] 9036482329 Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
