SEDB 7th anniversary day!

You are aware that the Society For The Empowerment Of The Deaf-Blind (SEDB) is registered as a non-profit organization, the first trust run by deafblind people in India, which aims to empower deafblind people with better educational training to access assistive technologies and employment opportunities. We are also advocating to protect our rights to fight any discrimination in the country.
 The SEDB was established on 20th October 2015, so we have completed 7 years and hence celebrating 7th year anniversary. Good news is that Mr. Sunil Abbas, the General Secretary and I, Zamir Dhale, the founder of the SEDB, who are both deafblind travellers, are going to travel independently to Nairobi, Kenya in Africa on 20th of October 2022. Sunil will fly from Chennai independently and I will be flying from Mumbai airport. We will be landing in Delhi airport and from there we will fly together to Nairobi. We are going to attend the World Federation of The Deaf-Blind (WFDB) conference from 23rd to 30th of October 2022. Even Mr. Pradip Sinha the Chairman of SEDB India along with his professional interpreter, Mr. Amaresh Gopalkrishnan are coming from Bangalore to join us there on that day. 
Thank you all, our deafblind leaders, team members, friends and other people with disabilities and non-disabled people for supporting us by encouraging us to learn new things to achieve success and live a good quality life. Thank you once again for your effort and support.

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