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The Latest Buzz @ VE
Vision Empower (VE) is a Not-for-Profit enterprise which empowers children with visual impairment through inclusive education. VE is incubated at IIIT Bangalore.
The BUZZ
News & Events
Sensitization and Awareness Session on Visual Impairment at MM B.Ed College, Davanagere
On 17th March 2025, a half-day sensitization session on visual impairment was conducted for 190 students at MM B.Ed College, Davanagere, Karnataka. The session offered insights into how visually impaired individuals learn, read, and adapt to daily tasks by using their other senses, fostering independence and confidence. It also emphasized...
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Vision Empower Workshop at Kerala Federation of the Blind Teacher Training Centre in Palakkad
On March 13, 2025, Vision Empower conducted a workshop at the Kerala Federation of the Blind Teacher Training Centre in Palakkad. The goal was to introduce D.Ed (Visually Impaired) students to Vision Empower’s STEM education initiatives and provide demonstrations of the assistive devices that VE supplies to schools. The workshop...
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An Empowering Odyssey
Vision Empower’s work featured in Wipro Foundation’s Monthly Newsletter- Samuhik Pahal
Head over to page Pg 40 to read Vision Empower’s work on ‘Happily Bridging the Computational Thinking Divide’
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A day in the life of a teacher with visual impairment- Teachers Day 2022!
Every morning Bhagyashree wakes up at 5:30 am excited about the learning and imparting of knowledge each day brings to her life. Being a special teacher for over 20 years, she is proud to have defied the norms by fulfilling her dream of becoming a teacher, as a person with…
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WHY we do what we do
The Reality
One fourth of the world’s blind population lives in India. In fact, 30% of India’s blind lose their eyesight before the age of 20 and many become blind before the age of five. Given their special needs, children with visual impairment need special resources to have the same opportunities in education as their sighted counterparts. Of the 68% of blind students who go to school, 11.5% eventually drop out (Source : "Population Enumeration Data (Final Population) in Census of India. Derived from here).
While like every other child, a child with visual impairment has the right to education, the current Indian education system and a stark lack of resources leads to majority of blind students being denied the opportunity to learn Science and Math after class 7. Therefore they cannot pursue STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers. In the state of Karnataka, of the 45 schools for the blind only one offers these subjects in high school.
A child with visual impairment is debilitated by a ‘wall’ on her road to STEM education.
WHAT we do
Vision Empower seeks to shift the present statistic, making STEM accessible to students with visual impairment.
Learning Resources
VE, in collaboration with its partners, is creating STEM content for students in the form of Braille books, audio books, tactile diagrams and other accessible content for each topic at all grade levels.
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Anubhav : Experiential STEM Learning Programme
Anubhav is VE's flagship experiential STEM learning programme with the aim to develop the scientific temperament among children.
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Pragya : Teacher Training Programme
VE teacher training workshops equip school teachers, both with visual impairements and sighted, with the methodologies that aim to make STEM lessons interesting and effective.
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Ananda : Hand-holding Programme for Students
VE volunteers work with students to reinforce STEM learning through after-school engagements.
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Srujan : Assistive Technologies
VE has initiated several research projects to design and develop assistive technology to enable students with visual impairment to learn STEM concepts on par with their sighted peers.
WHO We Are
The Empowering Ecosystem
Team VE, along with our partners, collaborate to create accessible content, instruction kits and technologies to assist the teaching and learning of STEM for children with visual impairment.
Team
People at the heart of VE
VIDHYA: Visually impaired since birth, Vidhya overcame immense challenges to become the first blind student to study math at the higher secondary level in Karnataka and the first blind student to pursue a computer science major in her university. She is the motivation behind Vision Empower and aims to break down barriers in STEM education for the blind.
SUPRIYA: an IT professional with over two decades of experience is the powerhouse behind Vision Empower. Her experience in volunteering as a teacher to children with visual impairments since 2015 provided an impetus to conceive Vision Empower.
AMIT PRAKASH: is an Associate Professor at IIIT Bangalore. He actively engages with the notion of inclusion in designing digital technologies and democratizing social systems for his research and consulting endeavours.
Our valuable core team of mentors and student interns who help build / steer the vision with more ambitious projects, connects.
Know MoreOur Partners
Big dreams, great ambitions need superstars to complete the ecosystem. These are our star partners and collaborators.
Microsoft research & Microsoft Philanthropies
Wipro Foundation
Cognizant Foundation India
Touché Technology
Bosch
Odisha Association for the Blind Bhubaneswar
Government of Karnataka
Government of Tamil Nadu
Government of Uttarakhand
Government of Odisha
Government of Telangana
Government of West Bengal
Government of Meghalaya
Government of Arunachel Pradesh
National Association for the Blind
SBI foundation
Bata
NIEPVD The National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities
Vembi Technologies
XRCVC Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged
Shankara
Saksham Disability
Madras Suspension
CSG
ICFOSS International Centre for Free and Open Source Solutions
The Great Eastern Shipping Co LTD
Raised Lines Foundation
IIITB International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Enability
Continual Engine
YOU & VE
Volunteer with Us
Students with visual impairment do better in smaller groups and with individual attention. Volunteers like you can play a crucial role in filling the gap and making STEM accessible to students. If you would like to know more about our volunteering opportunities drop us a line at outreach.ve@gmail.com. We’ll be happy to talk to you.
