Category: Drishti Events

• State Level Volleyball Tournament 2015
• State Level Cricket Tournament 2014
• First South Zone Volleyball Tournament 2014
• State Level Volleyball Tournament 2013
• District Level Volleyball Tournament 2012

Date : August 2012 The main focus is to help the Parents of the visually challenged children understand the psychological, educational, employment and livelihood needs of their children, the club has conducted one-day Counselling programme during 2012

Date : August 2013 One-Day Seminar on the Artistry of upbringing or Parents counseling is a unique Endeavour of our club. It aims at relieving psychological impediments of the parents of the visually challenged students. This programme is conducted for the second consecutive year.

Objectives of the programme

1. Make parents accept reality.
2. Drive out misconceptions about physically challenged children,
3. Identify hidden potentials of their children
4. Acquaint parents with the methods of proper upbringing so that children grow up to be potential members of the family and best citizens
5. Infuse a sense of optimism which will make life meaningful to them and to their society.

The programme took place on the 31st [Saturday] August 2013 at Sethu Bhaskara MHSS.It was addressed by a psychologist, academicians and successful visually challenged personalities on the following topics:

1. Counseling
2. Effective Housekeeping
3. Educational opportunities and employment possibilities
4. Social Skills
5. Assistive technology in service of the visually challenged

Around 35 parents participated in this event and got benefited.

Date : 6 September 2014

• With the view to sensitize the parents of the visually challenged on the current possibilities and opportunities in terms of Education and Employment, Drishti conducted a One-Day Counselling programme for the parents of the visually challenged on 6th September 2014 at Amalarakkini School for the blind, Arni.
• Around 90 parents participated and got benefited from this programme. In fact, this is the first time of its kind to do a counseling programme for the parents of the visually challenged and that too in outside Chennai District.
• There were sessions on Courses and Careers, Assistive Technology, Counseling by a psychologist, Life Skills and inspirational talks, conducted by visually challenged resource persons.
• At the end of the programme, the parents were given a pamphlet highlighting the essentialness of the Artistry of Upbringing the visually challenged.
• Rtn Thirumaran, Rotary club of Arni, Rtn Thiyagarajan, Rotary club of Arni Fort, Brother Levea, Correspondent and HM and Rtn Sivachandran, Rotary club of uva graced the occasion by their valuable presence.

Date : 05 September 2015

• With the t title “Artistry of Upbringing”, the Rotaract Club of Drishti, for the 4th consequtive year, had conducted a one day counseling programme for the parents of the visually impaired on 05 09 2015 at Sethupathi Higher Secondary School, Madurai.
• During the inauguration function, Patti Mandram Pugazh Mr Raja highlighted on the essentialness of upbringing and integration of the visually impaired child with the family.
• Sessions on counseling, educational opportunities, Assistive Technology, and employment possibilities enabled the parents to understand the need and scope for future progress of their children. All the sessions were chaired by experts in the respective fields.
• During the valedictory function in the evening, Professor and Media personality Dr K gnyana Sambandhan spoke about the capabilities and strengths of the visually impaired and encouraged the parents to take their children to greater heights in life. 70 parents in and around Madurai attended this programme and got benefited.
• They were given handouts on the resources available for the visually impaired in terms of education and employment.Sethupathi School correspondent and a few well-wishers of Drishti graced the programme with their precious presence.

• Counseling the parents of the visually impaired
• Counseling the parents of the visually challenged
• Seminar on the Artistry of Upbringing
• Artistry of Upbringing

Date : 7 December 2012

• In order to equip the visually challenged with new strategies in accessing the environment, the club conducted a seminar on Accessibility on 7th December 2012 at Alumni Club.
• The seminar was conducted by Mr. Daniel Kish, an American Visually Challenged Mobility Specialist who made a cameo appearance in the famous Tamil film Thaandavam.
• The seminar enabled the participants to understand new strategies for independent mobility.

Date : 6 Oct 2012

• Held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore, the workshop aimed to open a new window for the visually challenged students.
• It is aimed at educating the visually challenged on the skills required to engage themselves in Tamil journalism, to help create employment opportunities for visually challenged in journalism and media.
• The workshop was co-sponsored by Tamil monthly magazine(Parivu).
• The speakers were practitioners in Tamil journalism and they provided very relevant sessions on Journalism and Ethics, News gathering and Recording, Audio-Visual Media and News Prioritizing and Editing, etc.
• A demo of independent computer usage by visually challenged was conducted to familiarize using computers to read and write in Tamil.

 

Date : 13 July 2013

• The learners and the learned from the visually challenged and the sighted gathered together for a brainstorming workshop on Math and Science learning at Little Flower Convent [LFC] on the 13th July 2013 [Saturday].
• The resource person of the day was none other than Mr. Karthik Sawhney an innovator of Math and Science Learning, Student scholar Stanford Varsity U.S.A.
• The inauguration began with a mellifluous spiritual song by Ms. Akshaya a student of music at 10 30 am.
• Dr.Subbiah pandian the head and associate professor of physics at presidency college, the chief guest of the day, explained the scientific concepts in simple terms with simple demonstrations.
• Mr. Rohan an alumnus of Delhi IIT and the Correspondent and Principal of Little Flower Convent were also present at the function.
• Then Mr. Kartik took over the stage and conducted series of sessions on using Math and Science concepts with reference to academics and school syllabus. Parallelly, common learning devices for Math and Science were exhibited by Saksham - an NGO working for the empowerment of visually challenged at Delhi for the benefit of the students and teachers.
• After lunch, Mr. Rohan an innovator of the Smart Cane, highlighted essentialness of science and Ms Pushpa explained the Math and Science Models to students and teachers. At the end, there was a healthy interaction between Mr. Kartik and the audience. The valediction begins at 4 30 pm.
• Mr. Dinakar IRPS, presided over the function as the chief guest and Mr. Naga Reddy as the special invitee for the function.
• Mr. Dinakar, in his speech, emphasized the need for attitudinal change and branching out to different departments.
• Mr. Naga Reddy extended his fullest cooperation for Drishti's endeavors in his speech. Finally, the workshop ended with vote of thanks.
• On the whole, The Workshop became an effective platform for bringing in innovators such as Mr. Kartik Sawhney and Mr. Rohan, Special Educator Ms. Pushpa and Innovative learning models from Saksham for the benefit of the visually challenged students and academicians.
• The event was video graphed and covered by both print and visual media.

Date : July 2014

• This workshop is the first of its kind to be conducted for the visually challenged youth in Tamil Nadu.
• With the perspective to sensitize the employments in both audio and visual Media and to highlight the necessary qualifications required to fetch such employments for the visually impaired youth, Rotaract Club of Drishti had conducted a one-day Workshop on Voice and Non-voice based employments in Media on 13 07 2014 (Sunday) at RR Towers 3, Guindy, Chennai.
• Team of professionals led by Mr. Dheena from Academy of Radio Studies conducted the workshop chairing different sessions such as being an RJ, Voice –Over Artist, Script Writing and so on.
• The workshop was inaugurated by Dr Gowri, Professor and head, Dept of Media Science and Director, Anna Community Radio, Anna University, Chennai.
• Mr. Vinoth Rajesh, Documentary Film Maker, Anna University, graced the occasion as the guest of Honour. Mr. Kalaianban, Senior Programmed Executive, AIR, was the chief guest and Mr. Jeevanandam, Director, Thendral Community Radio, Chennai was the Guest of Honour during the valedictory function.
• The workshop received a healthy response and more than 56 students participated in a healthy way.
• After an overview of all the basics of the workshop during the morning, the students were assigned to perform a new caption along with a promo for their creative Radio FM during the evening.
• Their creativity was displayed through fine Demos by the participants. On the whole, this new venture, i.e. this workshop provided a new feel and instilled confidence in the minds of the visually impaired to pursue new employments.