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PATH-BREAKER: Tiffany Maria Brar, the coordinator of ‘Jyothirgamaya’, the first of its kind mobile blind school in Kerala.

“If visually impaired children cannot go to school, let the school go to them,” is at the heart of a novel initiative coordinated by a young volunteer at the organisation Braille without Borders, Tiffany Maria Brar, in collaboration with another city-based social enterprise, Kanthari.

‘Jyothirgamaya,’ envisaged to bring learning to the doorstep of these children, has been conceived by N. Krishnaswamy, chairman of the Chennai-based Vidya Vrikshah, to address the lack of facilities for the visually impaired in regular schools.

Twenty-four-year-old Tiffany, who is visually challenged herself, took up this idea and brought to life the first of its kind mobile blind school in the State. Paul Kronenberg, who along with Sabriye Tenberken, founded Braille Without Borders in 1998 in Lhasa, Tibet, said it was the first step to providing education and spreading literacy among the visually impaired children who cannot benefit from regular classes.

The mobile blind school is a three-wheeler vehicle equipped with a computer and printer facility powered by solar energy. It contains a Universal Braille kit, aiming to engage parents as well. The children will be taught English, Hindi, Malayalam Braille and other basic life skills that they do not acquire at school due to lack of attention given to these children.

The vehicle will be flagged off on Monday at the Kanthari Campus in Vellayani.

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