Mass production of accessible books can eradicate the book famine faced by persons with blindness or other print disabilities

India’s Saksham Trust Recognized as WSIS Champion 2021!

The banner has 4 different pictures of online training and classes taken by Saksham. Texy on the banner reads SAKSHAM BECOMES WSIS 2021 CHAMPION!- For our work towards empowering persons with visual impairment (PVIs) during the pandemic.

Saksham Trust (and its subsidiary Saktek Foundation) became one of the final champions of the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society Prizes (WSIS) 2021 in the cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content category. Held virtually this year, the event took place on 19 May 2021 and was presided by Mr HoulinContinue reading “India’s Saksham Trust Recognized as WSIS Champion 2021!”

Not Just Seeing Is Believing, Accessible Audio Books & a Library for Visually Impaired Are Here

(Note: This article has been taken from the Better India Blog, it is written by our employee Ms. Sonali.) Books are considered a person’s best companion. It is said that “When you open a book, you open a new world”. Books provide us with an endless pool of knowledge and information and allow a personContinue reading “Not Just Seeing Is Believing, Accessible Audio Books & a Library for Visually Impaired Are Here”