Brahma Kumaris Rajkot Celebrate World Braille Day at Govt. Higher Secondary Girl’s School for the Blind

Rajkot ( Gujarat ): On the birthday of Louis Braille, on behalf of Brahma Kumaris,  BK Hethal presented “Shiv Sandesh”(God’s message), a spiritual book in Braille script to Arpan Choudhary, Principal of Government Higher Secondary Girl’s School for the Blind, Panchsheel, Rajkot.

Commemorating the birth anniversary of the inventor of the Braille system, Louis Braille, and remembering his contribution towards the welfare of visually impaired people, January 4 is observed as World Braille Day.

Spiritual knowledge was given to the visually impaired, meditation was conducted and Godly gifts were presented to the staff of the blind school. 

HISTORY

World Braille Day was formed in 2019 by the United Nations General Assembly. The day is observed on the birth anniversary of Louis Braille who was born on January 4, 1809. The Braille language is a tactical method of representing alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots. The method even helps visually impaired people to identify not only letters and numbers but also musical notes, scientific and mathematical symbols through the sense of touch.

Having lost his eyesight at an early age due to an accident, Louis Braille was sent to a school for the Blind in Paris where he developed curiosity for a writing system using dots developed by Charles Barbier. Louis soon started working to improve the writing system and developed his own which is now known as Braille.

The Braille system proved to be a boon for the blind people and brightened their lives as they can read and even pursue studies like people with normal vision.

The celebration of World Braille Day is aimed at spreading awareness about the blind and to acknowledge that they deserve the same rights as other people. It also reminds people to be kind to the ones who are deprived of vision.

 

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