‘World Blind Walk’ Held in Assam Don Bosco University

Guwahati, October 17, 2019:

Assam Don Bosco University hosted Project Vision’s ‘World Blind Walk’ and joined hands with the global eye donation movement today.

The ‘World Blind Walk’ was held in the University’s Tapesia campus in collaboration with NavJan, Lions Club, Jyoti Niketan and Siso Sarothi, Guwahati.

Over a dozen students and faculty members participated in the Walk and took a pledge to willingly donate their eyes after death to visually challenged people.

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It may be mentioned here that BlindWalk’s relevance for India comes for the fact that India has 15 million visually challenged persons. It accounts for ablout one third blind population consisting of 39 million people, according to WHO.

Vice Chancellor, Fr (Dr.) Stephen Mavely, while addressing over five hundred students, faculty members of the University and members of various civil society organisation said, “It is a very different world for people who have no vision, especially the younger ones. This event is a way to conscientise about the reality. In the life of so many people around us we all know one or more or many more blind people in our surroundings, in our families, in our villages, let’s think of them as we do this work and it is one way of making us open our eyes to what we can do which is also one of the aims of our university getting engaged in the life of the less privileged.”

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NavJan Director, Fr (Dr.) Joseph Mappilarambil said that “It is alarming that more than 217 million people around the world are suffering from visually challenged problems and sicknesses. 39 million people are visually challenged across the globe out of which 15 million people are from India. India is now home to the world’s largest number of blind people. We can do something serious to address this problem. We can be the light to remove the darkness from the society.”

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