Video of the Read Fest Feedback uploaded

We don't usually get a lot of video feedbacks from our Read Fest volunteers. This one, though brief, is very straight from the heart and what really shone through was the happiness on her face right after she had done the recording.

I only saw this video today, and wanted to share it with Friends of Esha immediately..

https://youtu.be/yxEMChebWgc

Lego Style Braille Books Helps braille literacy

Braille Literacy is going down. As is general literacy. Perhaps it is a sign of our times. As audio takes over, the need to write reduces. And a communication method is only as important as the no. of users.

But braille is important. For the same reason that print is important - reading is its own joy.

Which is why such a delightful learning aid is very welcome, and very necessary:
http://mentalfloss.com/us/go/79417

 

SOIL Esha team wins the best outgoing SIP Team - 2016! Celebration Time!!

It is our pleasure and privilege to share that our Social Innovation Program team from #SOIL - School of Inspired Leadership, has won the Best Outgoing SIP Team this year. This is an honour well deserved by the team - that worked really hard all through the year on everything that Esha does, and then some more - Blind Walk, Social Media Management, Tour De Vision, doing Braille cards, and other projects.

Please join us in congratulating Rethina Kumar, Vigneshwar Ganesan, Cauvery Jalan and Saranya Balasubramanian - for being the rock stars that they have been! Thank you Atindra Nath Bhattacharya sir and the entire SOIL team for your encouragement. And of course, Randonneur Rajesh Dhuddu for his awesome mentoring.

To celebrate their journey with Esha, they have created a special video covering everything that they did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaYggRDCD8M

And to hear their experience , we recommend that you head to Esha's Youtube channel, where videos of their feedback, and of the previous batch, are uploaded:

https://www.youtube.com/user/eshabraille/videos

A Disabled friendly home - Article shared

We found this great article today - so thought of sharing...

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/529704/a-disabled-friendly-home.html

The Esha Summer Project 2016 is here!!

This year, the Esha Summer Project is really, realy big. Its 5 times the size of the earlier Summer Projects, includes 6 types of volunteering options, can be done from home or the field, and in general, will change the scale of our Summer Project, making it one of our strategic activities in the year.

This year, we are announcing the Summer Project through a video.

The video sums up all our volunteering options, AND everything u need to know about Esha - in case this is the first time you are hearing of us.

So go on, do spread the word! Let the Summer Project Begin!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_WI0FnlKEM
PS: Like every year, students will get certificates that can be used to demonstrate community contribution in college admissions.

E Book Reading App for Android - Free

Here is  a communication from Sparsh Products - sharing as received.

 Dear Friends,

  We are pleased to inform you that the ebook reading app "Accessible Reader"  is now being provided free of cost by Amway Opportunity Foundation. It is the world's only accessible ebook reading software with all the navigation features which is available free of cost and the rest are paid apps. Please   download the same from playstore. Given below is the link:




https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AmwayOpportunityFoundation
  .accessiblereader


   The main features of the app are given below:
   1. Read your txt, rtf, doc, docx and pdf files with complete
  navigation.
  2. It Supports Hindi, English and many other languages. Just have the
  compatible TTS engine for the language and you can read the same. For
  example for Hindi you can use Google Hindi, Lekha or espeak tts & for
  English you can use eloquence or any other English tts engine.
  3. Change your navigation mode between word, sentence, paragraph and
  page.
  4. Go to the desired page instantly with the help of "go to page"
  option.
  5. Repeat command repeats the word, line, paragraph or page at which
  the current navigation is set to.
  6. Increase or decrease the reading speed instantly.
  7. Play/Pause button.
  8. Read All button. It would start the reading continuously.
  9. Status. It displays the percentage of the file you have read.
  10. Page. It displays on which page you currently are
  11. It keeps the history of last 10 files which you have opened and
  remembers the position on which you closed the file and would resume from
  the same place.
  12. It remembers the navigation mode, TTS engine and your reading speed
  which you were using for that particular file.
  13. Select the TTS engine and voice for that particular file before
  opening.
  14. The software is activated via internet. It supports deactivation
  also.
  15. If you wish to change your handset just deactivate the software and
  activate it again on another handset. The application will remain with you
  for lifetime.
  16. No adds

 In case of any query please do share with us.

  With regards,

 Abhinav
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  Sparsh Products
  151-5, Rajpur Road, Jakhan Mandir,
  Dehradun 248001, India

  Mobile: 91-9837088334
  Email: info@sparshproducts.com

  sparshproducts@gmail.com

  www.sparshproducts.com <http://www.sparshproducts.com/>

  www.sparshbraille.com <http://www.sparshproducts.com/>

CLABIL Outreach Program - Agrasar at Islampur Village, Gurgaon

Yesterday, we took the CLABIL Outreach Program to the Agrasar Center at Islampur village, Gurgaon.

It was an amazing experience. The school itself is run so beautifully, using the Montessori pedagogy and very engaging educational methods. I was totally overawed.

There were 38 children there listening to the content. They loved English Hindi stories, Akbar Birbal stories, and some of them liked Magic Maths.

 

Online Audio Library - CLABIL - now crosses 5000 files

Today, we moved the catalogue from 4916 to 5014 files - 98 files added to the library, with more on the way.

The current batch upload has content in Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Punjabi  and English.

The content includes Oriya academic content, lots of GK quizzes in English and stories in Bengali. Hindi has some more children's poetry added today.

Enjoy! And do share your feedback!

 

The CLABIL Outreach Program is Underway!

In December this year, we had one of our audacious dreams. We dreamt that we want to take CLABIL directly to a large population that can benefit from it directly. The idea was to test the hypothesis that we can make a difference to people by giving them free access to knowledge content in their own language - without needing to read.

CLABIL Outreach Project in Delhi NCR Region, upto March 2016

Am happy to share this - we have done some extensive work around this outreach project since January 1.

The pics are in the collage above, but they really don't do justice to what we actually saw!

In other news, we also did a Braille session on March 5th at the Galleria Market, Gurgaon.

Learn Braille in 15 minutes!