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Virani Deaf and Dumb School Rajkot

I was invited to visit Virani Deaf and Dumb school Rajkot, Gujarat on 23rd and 25th February 2023. A special teacher of the school, who is deaf was helping me for my interpretation needs. I talked in Indian Sign Language(ISL) about the communication challenges faced by the deafblind in India.  Tactile sign language is very important for deafblind people to communicate. But some of them were not aware of how to communicate. They were scared of touching hands for tactile signing. Mr. Hiren told them not to hesitate. They learned slowly how to touch hands while signing and soon they understood. Durinf the motivation session, I showed my and Society For The Empowerment of the Deaf-Blind(SEDB) movie. They asked me how I could travel alone, and how other passengers who do not know deafblind would help me in train or flight or bus. I explained that it was not easy for me to travel alone because of lack of accessibility in India. some people understood. I motivated them to work hard, study wel
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Dear well-wishers, Greetings from SEDB! I would like to update you all on an important matter, that my younger brother who is a deaf-blind and is working as an office boy at Allegis company in Pune. He and his wife Yasmin (who is also deaf, are blessed with a baby girl, born yesterday 28th Febrary 2023. The baby is born premature. The doctor is demanding  Rs 2 lakhs for keeping her in NICU - a box that would keep her safe till she grows strong enough to be outside safely. We humbly request you to kindly help and support us to save our baby girl. She will need this treatment for more than two months. If you have some suggestions on this, please let me know on my whatsapp number: 9998751125. I would appreciate your help. Please send me some monetaries through my gpay account at same number. Very urgent because we need to pay to the hospital at immediate. Looking forward to your support and positive reply. Zamir Dhale
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India Deaf Expo 2023 and 2nd NCDB 2023

1. India Deaf Expo, Chennai India Deaf Expo was conducted in Chennai from 27th to 29th of January 2023. It was conducted by Deaf Leaders  Foundation (DLF). 3 deaf blind members along with 3 deaf members attended the event from SEDB. During the conference the deaf team supported us with interpretation, guidance and other support services.  At the SEDB stall, we displayed the products made by deafblind adults  - beautiful candles,  knitted woollen bags, key chains, crocheted baby clothes and other tiles. Sunil Abbas, General Secretary of SEDB worked hard to organize our participation including registration, hotel and stall arrangements. He took support from Chetana Trust to help create the presentation, design the banner and organize transport for the participants. The Deaf Explo was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity to spread awareness among the deaf community. Many deaf people came from all over India and other countries. They were very impressed and amazed at our products
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Support towards to SEDB sharing small contribuations!

Dear Sir/Madam, I trust you are doing well.We are deafblind people who are with this organisation called Society For The empowerment Of the Deaf-Blind(SEDB). We are looking for some sponsors who are interested in extending their support towards office equipment such  as computer and Orbit Reader 20 braille device repair costs. For the computer, the  cost will be Rs. 3650/- plus orbit reader 20 costs - Rs. 2651/-. Please let me know if you need the support invoice/bills then I will share the same and do the needful. If you are able to share small contributations such as Rs.300/- or rs.500/- to fulfill SEDB activities such as better education facilities for deafblind women and children/yearly website payout etc. Contributions can be made either monthly/quarterly/semi-annually or yearly.  Could you please make a contribution of Rs. 6301/- to SEDB for the immediate expenses? The bank  account detail is give on the website:  www.sedbindia.org Please let me know when you already transferred
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Purple Fest Goa event!

The Purple Fest is a one of its kind inclusive event that aims to bring everyone together to create an inclusive community. My experience at Purple Fest Goa was celebrating the diversity: I had a very wonderful experience and it felt great to have met the Chief Minister Mr. Pramod Sawant, Minister of Social Welfare, Shri. Subhash Phal Desi, and I met and interacted with Mr. Taha, the secretary of Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities and with Mr. Guruprasad Pawaskar, the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities. I believe that they learned a lot from Ambassadors who are disabled, Mr. Zamir Dhale, the first Ambassador of Purple Festival Goa, who is deafblind and the founder of the Society For the Empowerment of the Deaf-Blind(SEDB). I feel that more than 4500 people from all across India have come for the Purple Fest event. 200 deafblind participants attended the deafblind conference conducted by Sense India as I was employed by this organization as Senior Advocacy Officer f
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Reporting on Empower 2022 conference

Empower 2022 conference was held from 13th to 15th October 2022 at  IITM Research Park, Chennai.We were invited to attend the conference. The Founder of Society for the Empowerment of the Deaf-Blind, (SEDB), Mr. Zamir Dhale  decided to send his colleagues, Mr. Sunil Abbas, General Secretary and Mr. Pradip Sinha, Chairman to attend the conference. The tactile signing interpreters and Access Providers were provided by the conference and Chetana Trust, Chennai. Through the workshop, Mr. Kesavan, Mr. Rajesh, Mr. Ambrose, Dr. Namita, Ms. Sudha and Ms. Teresa were there to help us with interpretation  and worked very hard to provide access. We are very grateful for their support. We used to book taxis independently through Uber and Ola but the support of the access provider was really appreciated.  People who attended the conference learned a lot about the deafblind people like us. When they met and interacted with us, they understood that tactile communication and specialized interpreters 
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Reporting on trip to WFDB workshop at Kenya!

Dear friends, I would like to share exciting news with you all. We (Pradip Sinha -The Chairman| Sunil Abbas - The General Secretary and Zamir Dhale - The Founder of the SEDB India) went to attend the 6th General Assembly at World Federation Of The Deafblind (WFDB) hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from 24th to 29th of October 2022. It was a great opportunity to network with various deafblind leaders across the globe. We were able to share and enrich our knowledge and experiences of each one of our journey in empowering deaf-blind across geographic locations. We strongly believe this knowledge is very rich and will help us to achieve many successes. We learned and shared our experiences with each other. We learned a lot from their experiences. We also learned to understand many different laws. It was very different. We motivated Kenyan who are deaf and deafblind that they are facing problems such as discriminations against law and they were advised to overcome all difficulties and problems in th
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