Skills Fund supports O&M
The National Skills Fund (NSF) is funding the training of twenty blind and partially sighted persons in Limpopo and Free State provinces. Gilbert Mangwekea, O&M Practitioner will train between seven and eleven blind persons in Mohlaletsi Disable Centre, Limpopo Province from 3 September until 30 November 2018 whilst Nombuso Sibisi, O&M Practitioner will do a…
MoreRequest for Casual day support
Casual Day has become a firm favourite on the calendar of many of South African businesses. It is an excellent opportunity for corporate team building, whilst also making a contribution to one of the country’s most vulnerable sectors of society; persons with disabilities. The project encourages people to dress differently to the usual corporate…
MoreNewly Blinded Folk – how to help them back towards living independently
Every week, we’re meeting more people who’ve had their lives put on hold by sight loss or impairment. For most, we are their only hope. You’ll see what a life-changing difference your friendship makes as we reach out to more newly-blinded folk – and help them back towards living independently … Blindness happens suddenly for…
MorePHD GRAD SAYS: ”I DID IT FOR MY BLIND FRIENDS!”
In 2010 Matthys Odendal enrolled for a PhD at the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape with the help of the Blind SA Bursary Fund. The newly titled Dr Matthys Odendal received his PhD in Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape at the end of last year. The motivation…
MoreNew Stories of Independence
Blind SA recently teamed up with the Gauteng-based Education, Training and Development Practices Sector Education Training Authority (ETDP seta) to facilitate and empower the development of skills for blind and partially sighted people. The focus was to help these folk to achieve independence. This joint project has now resulted in 35 blind folk recently completing…
MoreBLIND SA LAUNCHES ‘SENSITISATION WORKSHOPS’ FOR POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS
With just under 400 unemployed blind and partially sighted candidates currently on our database, we have to be both practical and innovative if we’re to see these folk successfully employed. Says BlindSA’s Employment Officer Parishna Ramluckan: “It’s not enough to have bright and brilliant potential employees who’ve been screened, completed some fairly intense job readiness…
MoreBLIND SA PRESENTS 5 BRAILLE COPIES OF SCHOOL SETWORK
Five braille copies of the award winning Sesotho language drama Lejwe la Kgopiso were recently presented to the Bartimea School in Thaba Nchu. An essential Grade 12 setwork, the work was produced in two volumes by our Braille Services, and handed over to the school’s Acting Principal Mrs Mothibe in November last year. Presentation of…
MoreBLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED LEARNERS READ “THE FINAL MINUTE” IN BRAILLE
Almost 850 blind and partially sighted learners from 11 Schools for the Blind in the country took part in the World Read Aloud Day on 1 February, hosted by Nal’ibali and Blind SA. An inspirational sports story, The Final Minute by Zukiswa Wanner, was commissioned for the event. Blind SA published the work, in braille,…
MoreGauteng Province Premiers Award Of Excellence – Women With Disability Award
Cathy Donaldson received the Gauteng Province Premiers award of excellence – Women with Disability Award in Pretoria on the 8th of March 2018. This award honours and recognises the outstanding achievement of women with a disability who has broken the barrier of her disability and achieved success in her area. Cathy Donaldson President of Blind…
MoreProtocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa
Dear Colleagues Disability Rights earlier shared our collective excitement at the approval of the Africa Protocol on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Heads of State on 31 January 2018. We promised to share the Protocol as soon as we manage to access a copy. The CEO of the Africa Disability Alliance (ADA) has…
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