Aims & Objectives:

The Blind Men's Association provides education, professional training, on-the-job training, vocational training, integrated education, community-based rehabilitation and other need-based services to the blind and disabled. It initiates, encourages and promotes research in areas related to comprehensive rehabilitation of the blind and disabled. It develops and distributes a variety of educational aids and practical devices to blind persons. It operates an adult training center, a secondary school, higher secondary school, school of physiotherapy, and a technical school. It also runs a training center for adults; multi category training center for the handicapped; national rehabilitation engineering institute; multi bakery and food products division for disabled women; computer training center for the blind; BMA-IDBI electronics training center for the blind and disabled; receptionist and PBX telephone operating course; and an English stenography course for the blind and disabled.


It also runs employment and placement services; urban, community-based programs for rehabilitation of the aged and disabled; community-based rehabilitation of the rural blind; parental counseling and training; the Gujarat chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of India; centers for Ortho-prosthetic and other rehabilitation aids and appliances. Eye camps are frequently organized for the blind and visually impaired. In an attempt to improve the educational status of the blind, BMA has educated 300 adult blind persons to higher secondary level. Its physiotherapy school is the only such government-recognized school in the country.

The Technical School for the Blind offers a one-year government-recognized certificate course in trades such as motor-rewinding, general mechanics, weaving, carpentry, canning etc to 70 blind persons each year. The Computer Training Center for the blind and disabled provides a six-month course in two languages - Basic and Dbase. You can contribute to its activities by donation in cash, or in kind, providing employment to the disabled, reading to the blind and in several other ways. BMA wants to network with other organizations. It provides free consultancy to all welfare organizations dealing with disabled persons in Gujarat.



Contact:
Jagdish Patel; Arvind Lalbhai
Dr Vikram Sarabhai Road, Vastrapur
Ahmedabad, Gujarat