A group of Bahrain-based individuals have completed their Braille training with Friendship Society for the Blind and will be honoured during a ceremony staged at the group’s premises in Isa Town, marking World Braille Day on January 4.
The candidates included not just visually impaired learners but also able sighted teachers, nodding to the platform’s ongoing efforts toward building an inclusive community. They will receive their certificates on January 10.
Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols. Named after its inventor, Louis Braille, it is used by blind and partially sighted people. World Braille Day is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication.
“We have at least one training session every year, which runs for two months, and more depending on the requests we receive,” Friendship Society for the Blind general manager Ali Haji told GulfWeekly.
“Our Braille training this year was attended by around 17 candidates comprising not just visually impaired individuals but also teachers who wanted to equip themselves with the knowledge. The candidates were as young as 10 years going up to as high as 40 years. This is part of the many events that we conduct all year round,” he added.
Mr Haji, who has been volunteering with the society for the last 44 years, highlighted the diverse activities that the society organises, from sporting events to training sessions for corporates on how to have inclusive workspaces for the visually impaired.
“We have conducted inclusivity training workshops at various schools and hospitals, as well as with the Bahrain Police and Gulf Air,” noted the teacher, who previously worked at the Education Ministry.
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