Experience shared by Bhavesh Patel who is blind. As a part of Diwali celebration, our HR had announced Rangoli competition in the office. Everyone became excited and started thinking for ideas of how uniquely can they draw rangolis. This made me think of how I can participate in such competition, as I had never drawn or had never touched a rangoli ever in my life. I told my colleagues that I also need to participate in this competition.
Since I am a person with visual Impairment, I was a little worried that how will I be able to do the same. However at the same time I was confident that BarrierBreak has never run out of innovative ideas when it comes to equal participation of persons with disabilities in any activities. And it is true indeed! One of my friend suggested me to make the outline of rangoli using clay. I became very happy upon hearing this and immediately decided to make rangoli of a flower. On the next day we had rangoli competition in the office. Wed bought all the necessary equipments for rangoli. Rather as being a competitor, I was excited of being a participant in the competition. During the competition, I recalled my school days when I used to make different things during my pottery class. In the competition, I had made a flower containing shades of red, black and green colors respectively. We put seeds of orange and yellow pulses for shades. Guess what? We used daals of different colors which can be touched. My colleagues helped me to identify different colors of clay and daals. I made 4 lamps which we put around the flower. Once the rangoli was made, I was told to write my name besides the rangoli. We made the letters of my name using clay which could be touched. Once the competition got over, everyone saw the rangoli and liked it very much. There is a saying we never know until and unless we try. My above experience just brings that in to a reality. An innovative thinking can lead to different ideas. Thanks & Regards Ramya Venkitesh www.barrierbreak.com 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
