Vision Empower, in collaboration with I-Stem and RKM BBA, launched the pilot of Vision 30, a program aimed at identifying, inspiring, and supporting promising high school students with visual impairments from across India. This initiative focuses on empowering students to achieve academic excellence and gain admission to top colleges through...
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Vision Empower participated in the 4-day Wipro Foundation Partner Forum, held from December 4th to 7th, 2024. The event was attended by Meghna Choudhury, Devidatta Ghosh, and Monica Fatogun, representing Vision Empower. The forum, hosted at the Azim Premji campus in Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, brought together over 250 Wipro partners...
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(This Image shows happy Volunteers posing for a picture after making tactile boards for the students) On 4th December 2024, VE organized a successful Ananda volunteering event at CSGI, Pune, with 88 employees, including the leadership team, coming together to make a meaningful impact. The volunteers worked in teams to...
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Anubhav, The Experiential Learning event for Students in Special Schools for the Blind, Odisha took place throughout November 2024, covering various locations and topics for students in special schools for the blind. Here’s the Gist, Across all events, Subodha Sessions featured quizzes on covered topics, and DL Episodes (like Episode...
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The Curious Minds 2024 event organized by Vividha Trust in partnership with Vision Empower, Raised Lined Foundation and Curiouscity on November 23rd and 24th at ACTS Secondary School ICSE, Pragathi Nagar, Electronics City, Bengaluru was a commendable effort in getting visually impaired (VI) students and their teachers excited and curious about Science and Maths.
VE celebrated Children’s Day with over 1500 students, across various schools all across India. In celebration of Children’s Day, Vision Empower (VE) spread joy and smiles by gifting chocolates to all the children, creating a sweet moment of happiness and reinforcing the importance of nurturing young minds with love and...
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A third party assessment was done by SoulAce Consulting Pvt. Ltd., commissioned by Cognizant Foundation. The study comprised of 228 quantitative and 15 qualitative interactions with school administration, teachers and students with visual impairment, research and academic collaborators, government department heads, and Vision Empower team and its partners. Key study...
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This image shows the VE team and all the teachers from across Tamil Nadu, who came to attend the teachers’ training stand together in a group while posing for a photo Vision Empower (VE) organized the Pragya workshop for Tamil Nadu teachers on November 11 & 12, 2024, at the...
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Vision Empower (VE) organized a 3-day training workshop at NAB Bangalore on October 23rd to 25th, for 37 teachers from 24 special schools for the blind across Karnataka, with approval from the Department for the Empowerment of the Disability and Senior Citizens (DWDSC). The workshop aimed to equip teachers with...
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Vision Empower recently participated in Empower 2024, held from October 17-19 at the National Institute of Speech & Hearing (NISH) in Thiruvananthapuram. This dynamic event brought together users, experts, innovators, and advocates in Assistive Technology, fostering an environment ripe for collaboration and empowerment. On Day 2, our Co-Founder, Vidhya Y,...
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Vision Empower has been awarded as the Winner at the prestigious Doing Good for Bharat Awards hosted by CSR Box at the India CSR and ESG Summit on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 in New Delhi, for its outstanding accomplishment in the the category “Doing Good through Grassroot Actions for Education”....
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As Vision Empower turns seven, we proudly celebrate the dedication of our team and the generous support of our funders and partners. We also honor the cooperative spirit of the schools we serve and the invaluable guidance of our mentors. To mark this special occasion, we organized volunteer events across...
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On September 25th and 26th, the Pragya Teacher Training program was successfully held in West Bengal, organized in collaboration with the Department of Mass Education Extension & Library Sciences at RKM Blind Boys Academy. The event saw participation from 30 dedicated teachers representing 16 schools across the region, all eager...
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This image shows VE teachers and the other teachers of Odisha who take part in the Pragya session standing for a picture On September 10th and 11th, VE, in collaboration with the Social Security & Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department of the Government of Odisha, proudly hosted ‘Pragya,’ an...
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On 22nd August, our Founder Vidhya was invited to the Hope Series discussion at Microsoft to be a chief guest. Microsoft invites prominent change making NGO leaders to have a discussion on their journey of impacting lives. The discussion was received with a lot of love from the 250 Microsoft...
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“ I thought we were playing, but now I realise that we learned many new things.” – Barsha rani Nayak, Student. VE in collaboration with the Social Security & Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department, Government of Odisha, conducted a two-day Anubhav Experiential STEM learning event for students with Visual...
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When a vision is presented to the world, the ideology becomes more real and surreal. The VE team participated in the 6th Conference on Computational Thinking in Schools (CTiS 2024) conference conducted on the 5th and 6th of July 2024 at IISER, Pune which was hosted by GGIS School, Pune...
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On May 28th, 2024, Vision Empower (VE) participated in the National Workshop on User Interface and User Experience for Government, hosted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in New Delhi. The event featured exhibitors like Oracle, Samsung, MapmyIndia, and SBI, alongside Microsoft, with each showcasing solutions in...
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