[AI] Open Your Eyes, Please Read this
Hello list members, This posting contains a short journey of a campaign called Open Your Eyes, which has been very instrumental in spreading the awareness related to the VI community in Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies Under Graduate ( SCMSUG), Pune, the BBA constituent of Symbiosis International University and has also led to the development of facilities for the VI students in the college. This campaign was started by 6 students of our college SCMSUG namely Nalin Agarwal (T Y BBA), Sameer Dixit (T Y BBA), Jay Thanki (S Y BBA), Sagar Jain (S Y BBA), Tausif Iqbal(S Y BBA), and Abdul Razique Khan (F Y BBA). We are sharing our experiences of past 1 year, be it a failure or success, and thus would like everyone to read this posting, especially the students who are currenly pursuing courses in any institution. 19th July,2008, Youth Activism Day- It all started off from here. Youth activism day was celebrated in the form of a competition in our college. In this competition, the participants were supposed to give a presentation on any social issue, in front of the judges and carry out a campaign with the help of posters and banners in the college campus to make the students aware on that issue. The students also had to come up with a solution which can be carried out at a college level to resolve the issue. It was then that we formed a group and named our campaign as Open Your Eyes. We gave a presentation which was based on the following topics, (i) Hindrances faced in the society by the VI community, (ii) Accessibility issues in front of the visually challenged, (iii) Assistive Technologies: A solution to accessibility issues, (iv) Steps to be taken by the college authority to resolve this issue at a college level. The presentation was backed up by two specially shot videos which created a lot of impact on the judges and audience. The first three parts of the presentation are self explainatory. The main highlight of this presentation was the last part wherein we proposed the management of our college to provide the necessary support system to the visually challenged students of the college. This suggestion was presented in the form of a well documented proposal in which we presented XRCVC, a resource centre for visually challenged successfully operating in ST. Xaviers college, Mumbai as an example. The proposal was accepted immediately by the Head- SCMSUG, Dr. Bhama Venkatramani and all the faculty members. This itself was a win for us. But there was more to come our way, as we were also judged to be the winners of the college event. This was not the beginning, instead, everything had just started. Our team had two well defined objectives now, (i) Spreading the awareness and (ii) Development of support system for visually challenged students in the college. Taking these two objectives in mind, we carried our campaign forward in the form of various programmes and events, which are described as under: 19 1.. th September, 2008- Presentation in the inter college fest- Illuminaire 2008: We gave a similar type of presentation as before in front of the students of various colleges in the Inter college fest- Illuminaire, 2008 to create awareness amongst them. The fest also saw the presence of Mr. V.S. Kumar, commissioner of Income Tax, Pune. We made them realize that a visually challenged student can compete against their counter parts in all fields. Its just that they need the availability of necessary support system to perform their tasks. This presentation was almost the same as the previous one but it had all the ingredients which could inspire and sensetise the students. This was the first type of awareness programme in this level and we are looking forward for more, in the near future. 21st September, 2008- Presentation in the 2nd Access India Convention, Ahmedabad: This was the first time we moved out of our college with our campaign. We, as representatives of SCMSUG, went to the Access India Convention to give a presentation on Inclusive Education ( inclusion of students from all societies in regular schools and colleges). Another purpose to participate in this convention was to gain knowledge about the latest technologies and get the first hand experience from the achievers present over there. We interviewed many of them in order to know the hindrances they have faced in their lives and the struggles they have undergone to overcome these hurdles. 4 members of our team are sighted and it was a totally new experience for them to be amongst so many VI's. They were all very impressed by each and everything over there. Our presentation was very much appreciated and it was enough to encourage us to move forward in this field. As everyone knows, the convention was held in Blind People's Association. This enabled our team to see a glimpse of the life of the students over there. We interviewed some of the students and
Re: [AI] Open Your Eyes, Please Read this
exellent work done two sujjestions from my side try to include all the colleges in maharastra first and then all over india second try to aware science study for v i students still in v i as well as out side people do beleive science is not for v i if you can do it it will be great work for v i people congrates for your very good work and best of luck for your future we really require students like you in our community firoz - Original Message - From: Abdul Razique 1988.ab...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:56 AM Subject: [AI] Open Your Eyes, Please Read this Hello list members, This posting contains a short journey of a campaign called Open Your Eyes, which has been very instrumental in spreading the awareness related to the VI community in Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies Under Graduate ( SCMSUG), Pune, the BBA constituent of Symbiosis International University and has also led to the development of facilities for the VI students in the college. This campaign was started by 6 students of our college SCMSUG namely Nalin Agarwal (T Y BBA), Sameer Dixit (T Y BBA), Jay Thanki (S Y BBA), Sagar Jain (S Y BBA), Tausif Iqbal(S Y BBA), and Abdul Razique Khan (F Y BBA). We are sharing our experiences of past 1 year, be it a failure or success, and thus would like everyone to read this posting, especially the students who are currenly pursuing courses in any institution. 19th July,2008, Youth Activism Day- It all started off from here. Youth activism day was celebrated in the form of a competition in our college. In this competition, the participants were supposed to give a presentation on any social issue, in front of the judges and carry out a campaign with the help of posters and banners in the college campus to make the students aware on that issue. The students also had to come up with a solution which can be carried out at a college level to resolve the issue. It was then that we formed a group and named our campaign as Open Your Eyes. We gave a presentation which was based on the following topics, (i) Hindrances faced in the society by the VI community, (ii) Accessibility issues in front of the visually challenged, (iii) Assistive Technologies: A solution to accessibility issues, (iv) Steps to be taken by the college authority to resolve this issue at a college level. The presentation was backed up by two specially shot videos which created a lot of impact on the judges and audience. The first three parts of the presentation are self explainatory. The main highlight of this presentation was the last part wherein we proposed the management of our college to provide the necessary support system to the visually challenged students of the college. This suggestion was presented in the form of a well documented proposal in which we presented XRCVC, a resource centre for visually challenged successfully operating in ST. Xaviers college, Mumbai as an example. The proposal was accepted immediately by the Head- SCMSUG, Dr. Bhama Venkatramani and all the faculty members. This itself was a win for us. But there was more to come our way, as we were also judged to be the winners of the college event. This was not the beginning, instead, everything had just started. Our team had two well defined objectives now, (i) Spreading the awareness and (ii) Development of support system for visually challenged students in the college. Taking these two objectives in mind, we carried our campaign forward in the form of various programmes and events, which are described as under: 19 1.. th September, 2008- Presentation in the inter college fest- Illuminaire 2008: We gave a similar type of presentation as before in front of the students of various colleges in the Inter college fest- Illuminaire, 2008 to create awareness amongst them. The fest also saw the presence of Mr. V.S. Kumar, commissioner of Income Tax, Pune. We made them realize that a visually challenged student can compete against their counter parts in all fields. Its just that they need the availability of necessary support system to perform their tasks. This presentation was almost the same as the previous one but it had all the ingredients which could inspire and sensetise the students. This was the first type of awareness programme in this level and we are looking forward for more, in the near future. 21st September, 2008- Presentation in the 2nd Access India Convention, Ahmedabad: This was the first time we moved out of our college with our campaign. We, as representatives of SCMSUG, went to the Access India Convention to give a presentation on Inclusive Education ( inclusion of students from all societies in regular schools and colleges). Another purpose to participate in this convention was to gain knowledge about the latest technologies and get the first hand experience from the achievers present over
Re: [AI] Open Your Eyes, Please Read this
dear friends you have demonstrated you skills to sensitise management and counterpart which will pay rich devidence in near future. this attempt achieved desired results to some extent but these benifits should percolate down to the country side vc students. this is possible when you give such demonstrations in rural colleges if time permitts so as to strengthen inclusive education. - Original Message - From: firoz firoj...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Open Your Eyes, Please Read this exellent work done two sujjestions from my side try to include all the colleges in maharastra first and then all over india second try to aware science study for v i students still in v i as well as out side people do beleive science is not for v i if you can do it it will be great work for v i people congrates for your very good work and best of luck for your future we really require students like you in our community firoz - Original Message - From: Abdul Razique 1988.ab...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:56 AM Subject: [AI] Open Your Eyes, Please Read this Hello list members, This posting contains a short journey of a campaign called Open Your Eyes, which has been very instrumental in spreading the awareness related to the VI community in Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies Under Graduate ( SCMSUG), Pune, the BBA constituent of Symbiosis International University and has also led to the development of facilities for the VI students in the college. This campaign was started by 6 students of our college SCMSUG namely Nalin Agarwal (T Y BBA), Sameer Dixit (T Y BBA), Jay Thanki (S Y BBA), Sagar Jain (S Y BBA), Tausif Iqbal(S Y BBA), and Abdul Razique Khan (F Y BBA). We are sharing our experiences of past 1 year, be it a failure or success, and thus would like everyone to read this posting, especially the students who are currenly pursuing courses in any institution. 19th July,2008, Youth Activism Day- It all started off from here. Youth activism day was celebrated in the form of a competition in our college. In this competition, the participants were supposed to give a presentation on any social issue, in front of the judges and carry out a campaign with the help of posters and banners in the college campus to make the students aware on that issue. The students also had to come up with a solution which can be carried out at a college level to resolve the issue. It was then that we formed a group and named our campaign as Open Your Eyes. We gave a presentation which was based on the following topics, (i) Hindrances faced in the society by the VI community, (ii) Accessibility issues in front of the visually challenged, (iii) Assistive Technologies: A solution to accessibility issues, (iv) Steps to be taken by the college authority to resolve this issue at a college level. The presentation was backed up by two specially shot videos which created a lot of impact on the judges and audience. The first three parts of the presentation are self explainatory. The main highlight of this presentation was the last part wherein we proposed the management of our college to provide the necessary support system to the visually challenged students of the college. This suggestion was presented in the form of a well documented proposal in which we presented XRCVC, a resource centre for visually challenged successfully operating in ST. Xaviers college, Mumbai as an example. The proposal was accepted immediately by the Head- SCMSUG, Dr. Bhama Venkatramani and all the faculty members. This itself was a win for us. But there was more to come our way, as we were also judged to be the winners of the college event. This was not the beginning, instead, everything had just started. Our team had two well defined objectives now, (i) Spreading the awareness and (ii) Development of support system for visually challenged students in the college. Taking these two objectives in mind, we carried our campaign forward in the form of various programmes and events, which are described as under: 19 1.. th September, 2008- Presentation in the inter college fest- Illuminaire 2008: We gave a similar type of presentation as before in front of the students of various colleges in the Inter college fest- Illuminaire, 2008 to create awareness amongst them. The fest also saw the presence of Mr. V.S. Kumar, commissioner of Income Tax, Pune. We made them realize that a visually challenged student can compete against their counter parts in all fields. Its just that they need the availability of necessary support system to perform their tasks. This presentation was almost the same as the previous one but it had all the ingredients which could inspire and sensetise the students. This was the first type of awareness programme in this level and we
