Significant development in the year 2023-2024 was the establishment of new head office at RR Tower 2. The inaugural function was held on Vijayadashami, October 24th, 2023. The new office was declared open by KVF's prime sponsor, Mindsprint.
The event was attended by KVF faculty, students and trustees.
To build the Disabled and Non-disable teaching resources to teach person with Visual Impairment on following subjects such as Science, Technology, English and Mathematics using accessible technology tools and device.
Illustrate the accessible devices and application to resolve the challenges of personal and academic related tasks.
Number of participants – 20
The activity “Source the Resource” was started with the aforesaid objectives on September 9th 2023 at 2.00 PM in Karna Vidya Foundation Head office with Chief guest Mr. Ravindranath Singh Deputy director for person with disability Government of Tamil Nadu and special guest Ms. Divya from Teach for India, students with Special education various colleges, Parent of Visual Impairment and KVF trusties.
Mr. Raghuraman advisor of KVF and Programme head initiated the discussion with the students with special education to understand the observation about person with visual impairment skills and behaviors during their journey. Each one of them shared their experiences about the Person with Visual Impairment eagerly. Followed this, facing challenges of Person with Visual Impairment in the personal life and academic learning was discussed. Each one of them expressed their observation such as independent walking, reading academic material, writing assignment and exams etc.…
The challenges were noted down by the KVF team and continuation of this Advisor and programme head addressed the students to provide the solution for the list of challenges expressed. The solution was provided with real world example and that was agreed by the students and assured the same will be taught to the school students with Visual Impairment during their work journey.
In the second part of the discussion, role model was introduced to understand the capabilities of person with Visual Impairment. Mr. Ashwin person with Visual Impairment who pursues 10th standard in a Private school and He learnt all the technology at Karna Vidya Foundation Since 2017 and He started to do all his personal and academic tasks on his own by using technology. He shared his learning experience and tools using for completing his regular academic routines on independent. It gave the confident among the participants.
In the third discussion, we have introduced Mrs. Kavitha’s parent of Mr. John harris who pursues 7th standard in a private school. It is introduced to illustrate how the parent can become a teacher to the students with Visual Impairment. Mrs. Kavitha briefed about the support it was done to her child to be an independent in regular and academic routines. In the mean while she explained about the tactile diagrams and science models done by her son and it was selected as a good science model from Tamil Nadu region and He had gone to Kanpoor to participate in the science exhibition addressing students of Tamil Nadu.
In the final discussion, we requested each student to share their learning and their thoughts about to become a teacher in their own subjects using accessible technology tools and They requested to provide the training on technology to teach the subjects. List of expressing interest was noted down by the KVF team and interested students would be asked to participate in the technology training and methods. Orientation on technology training for the students with Special education would be finalized soon and shared to the participants to become the teacher for person with Visual impairment.
In the final session, Chief guest and special guest addressed the students and appreciated the interest towards community development and career choice for person with Visual impairment community.
Karna Vidya Foundation, Rotary club of blossom, Madurai in association with St. Joseph higher secondary school for the Visually Impaired, Paravai, Madurai initiated Tech-based skill training centre for the students with Visual Impairment pursuing classes from 6th standard to 8th standard to empower them on technical skill to meet the academic requirements.
St. Joseph Higher secondary school for the visually impaired
Madurai - Dindigul Road, Paravai,
Madurai - 625402 (Near Justin Nagar)
Landline Number: +914466664101
E-mail address: info@karnavidyafoundation.org
Karna Vidya Foundation, Rotary club of Sakthi, Trichy in association with Government Girls higher secondary school for the Visually Impaired, Puthur, Trichy initiated Tech-based skill training centre for students with Visual Impairment pursuing classes from 6th standard to 8th standard to empower them on technical skill to meet the academic requirements.
Government Girls Higher Secondary School For Blind.
Education Employment. EVR Road, Puthur,
Tennur Trichy, Tamilnadu 620017
Landline Number: +914466664101
E-mail address: info@karnavidyafoundation.org
76th Independence day celebrations were held at Karna Vidya Foundation, Guindy centre. Around 100 candidates participated in the celebrations which included students delivering speeches, singing songs and Chief guest addressing the gathering.
This event was started on 11th August 2023 at 10 am for Job seeker with Visually Impaired who are pursuing their training at KVF training centre, Guindy, Chennai. It was conducted in 4 different modes such as Tamil reading, Tamil writing, English reading and writing. Assessment criteria was set appropriately. 18 Job seekers participated eagerly. Each one of them showed their skills in reading and writing through computer technology. Following this KVF trainers –evaluated the competition files based on the criteria. End of the day, the final results were announced for the participants.
On 12th August 2023, this competition event was started for school students. It was conducted in the 4 aforesaid different modes. Twelve students participated and show cased their talent in the competition. End of the day, the results were announced to the participants.
Volunteer networking meet for creating accessible e-content and teaching STEM subjects for students with visual impairment was held at Guru Nanak Arts and Science College, Velachery, Chennai on 8th August 2023. Around 55 candidates including students and professors from BCA department of Guru Nanak College participated in the meet.
Objectives of this meet was to illustrate the capabilities of the Visually Impaired in handling technology for education and employment requirements. Request for volunteer support in creating accessible E-content and teaching STEM (Science, Technology, English, Mathematics) topics to the students with visual impairment. Demonstrated the Book share online library to the volunteers for a better understanding of the diverse formats of accessible E-content.
Karna vidya foundation opened a centre at Anandam Trust Ambattur. The centre
is conducting training in STEM courses to visually impaired school children.
Computer Training Centre for students with visual impairment at Ambattur started with seven participants. The children are trained on Introduction to Computers, Parts of Computer and Keyboard Orientation with Screen Reading software for carrying out academic and personal routines.
Anna Main Rd, Gangai Nagar,
Kallikuppam, Ambattur,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600053
Landline Number: +914466664101
E-mail address: info@karnavidyafoundation.org
Valedictory function of short-term training on computer literacy and distribution of course completion certificates for 12th grade passed out school students with Visual Impairment at Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education Centre, Krishnankovil.
Forty 12th grade passed out students with visual impairment participated in the training that involved enhancing their abilities in operating basic computer, mobile, English communication, Life skill, personality development and career guidance to pursue their higher education with utmost confidence.
Discussions initiated for resuming Information Communication Technology Training for college students with visual impairment. Ten college going students participated in the training meet held at Sara Tucker College for Women, Tirunelveli.
