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Empowering the blind and the disabled : the Blind People's Association

In the last five decades of its existence, the Blind People's Association (BPA) at Ahmedabad, India, has emerged as an internationally renowned voluntary organization for the blind and people with other disabilities. It has a number of innovative programs, such as schools, a national rehabilitation engineering institute, a computer training center, an electronics training center, a bakery and food products division for disabled women, and a number of vocational courses. It also provides an employment and placement service, runs urban and community-based programs for rehabilitation of the aged and disabled, and provides parental counseling and training. The BPA tends to look at the abilities of the disabled and the blind and consider them as 'differently abled' and important members of society. This philosophy has helped in training and assisting the differently abled to become self-reliant, which contributes to their socioeconomic rehabilitation and empowers them to lead a near-normal life.