KARACHI: A blind man named Saud Sheikh, who hails from Karachi is converting textbooks into Braille language for blind students.
The 23-year-old is the founder of the welfare organization, which he founded two years ago. His organization started converting Sindh Board books into Braille, for which Saud raised money and ordered a Braille embosser machine from the UK.
Through this software, the organization converts the textbooks of all subjects of Sindh Board from 1st to 8th class into Braille for blind students.
In addition, the Braille books created by his organization include 9th, 10th grade, and intermediate first and second year’s five years.
Saud said, “Blind students have to work harder than other students. It is not possible for us people to read from ordinary books so the teachers read the whole lesson to us and we also write thirty pages on a daily basis to memorize the lesson.”
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He added, “Writing often hurts the hands. Similarly, in exams, we have a writer with us who gives us answers to oral questions and we don’t know how they write it. That’s why our marks in exams often don’t go well.”
According to him, many blind students and their schools benefit from Braille books made by his organization. He said that he wanted to spread this work not only in Sindh but all over Pakistan so that the process of getting an education for the blind can be made easier.
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