Dear List, Sharing an excellent and great initiative by Voice Vision and Sushmeetha Bubna successively third time. Below is a coverage article from Times of India print media of the yesterday's awesome event. - Prashant Naik
Meet plays matchmaker for people with disabilities Times of India, Jan 6, 2014. MUMBAI: Chirag and Mansi Kothari have been married for 10 years now with two children. The couple, both suffering from hearing impairment and speech disability, have ensured their disability does not come in their way of a happy married life and raising children. The couple came to motivate others like them at a matrimonial meet organized by the Rotary Club of Mumbai West Coast and the NGO Voice Vision in Malad on Sunday. Around 55 individuals with disabilities gathered to find their life partners. To motivate them were three such couples who shared their experiences. Even as nobody finalized partners, many said they liked more than one individual, said Sushmeetha Bubna, founder-director of the NGO. Parents of Ghatkopar's Bhavik Jobanputra, who suffers a minor limp due to polio, claimed they liked a girl with a similar problem. "We will have to see if it works out as she is a north Indian," said his father. The Dandekars from Bhandup who came looking for a bride for their son, Tanmay, suffering from a minor mental illness and is a slow learner, claimed the organization should have had wider publicity to ensure more people registered. The president of the Rotary Club West Coast, Vikas Upadhyay, claimed that people from as far as Gujarat, Delhi and Tirupati had come to find matches. Differently-abled couples Dinesh and Monica Saraiya and doctors Priti and Ghanshyam Sharma, were also present. Time to meet up again! Register for AccessIndia Convention 2014: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
