A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A VISUALLY IMPAIRED

She wakes up in the morning with a hope to see the rising sun but all she sees is darkness surrounding her.

Just close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine living an entire life that way, imagine the misery of a visually impaired woman. You will soon realise how difficult it is to do things if you can’t see them. We hardly take a minute to cross the road, but she always needs someone to hold her hand and guide her the way. Every step outside her home is a step filled with terror of going in the wrong direction or bumping into something. How effortlessly we carry out even the minutest activities of our daily life like eating food or dressing up without realising that doing the same activities requires a lot of effort by a visually impaired.

What we can see, she can only feel.
We can see the colour of our clothes that we are wearing but all she can do is feel that colour. We can see the face of our loved ones every day but even after being with them for the whole day she cannot see them.
As the day transits from dawn to dusk, it doesn’t make any difference in her life. It begins with darkness around her and ends so.

The mere act of leading a normal life has taken the shape of a rigorous struggle, a struggle that makes space in each “day in the life of a visually impaired”. Every day filled with challenges, every chore pursued with a tinge of inevitability, but it is the courage and determination at their hearts that makes them undoubtedly invincible.

While working with the visually impaired women, their zeal and vigour proved to us that where there’s will, there’s a way. With skeptical thoughts yet hopeful aspirations, these women have left no stone unturned and have constantly inspired

us in our endeavours. 

Enhancing and polishing their existing skills of stitching, we thrive to create innovative products with them. Deprived of the ability to see a single ray of light, they managed to make beautiful potlis, pouches and other cloth accessories, for they acknowledge the ray of hope in their lives.

Time and again, I look for inspirations in my life, and the boundless enthusiasm of these visually impaired women has left me speechless. They know that in order to succeed in life, one needs a Vision and not Sight. They have realised that not one thing in the whole wide world can hold them back from pursuing their dreams.