Agencies Serving Blind & Partially Sighted People
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20.11.2009
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Bangladesh
Assistance for Blind Children (ABC)
2/11 Tajmahal Road, Block C, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.
Tel: +880 2 819 320
Fax: +880 2 819 320
Email: abchild@bangla.net
Activities: The Assistance for Blind Children organizes eyesight restoration and prevention of blindness for students and children. Working to create a congenial atmosphere and suitable environment for development of the disabled population ensuring their legal rights and equal participation in nation-building activities.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
Bangladesh Blind Mission
75/B Indira Road, Tejgaon, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh.
Tel: +880 2 812 767
Fax: +880 2 813 095
Email: bbm@agni.com
Activities: The Mission provides integrated education, rehabilitation and provides library services.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
Bangladesh Jatio Andho Kalyan Samity
(Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB))
Section No-1, Mirpur, Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh
Tel: +880 250 3016
Fax: +880 281 6820
Email: msaifulislam@hotmail.com
Activities: Bangladesh Nation Society for the Blind is a national
voluntary organisation and member of the World Blind Union. Services include
prevention of blindness, eyesight testing programme, cure of blindness
(eye camps), base eye hospitals, rehabilitation of the blind, and education
to the blind.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity (BPKS)
(Welfare Association of the Persons with Disabilities of Bangladesh)
BPKS Complex, 2/5 Mymensingh Road, Shahbag, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.
Tel: +880 2 861 5502
Fax: +880 2 966 3615
Email: bpks@citechco.net; bpkspm@agni.com
Activities: BPKS is the only non-profit, cross disability, self-help
organization of disabled men and women in Bangladesh. BPKS works to ensure
equality in all occupations of persons with disabilities through attaining
their equal rights, opportunities and full participation in national building
activities, enabling persons with disabilities to live independently,
with dignity, in a barrier-free family and community and be equally contributive
to her/his own and societies development. Program activities include:
home based therapy and counselling, medical referral services, eye camps,
educational support, lobbying and advocacy, skills training leading to
job placement, community awareness raising, intellectual capacity building
training including training in centre and accounts management and program
accelerating and also assistive device support.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
Baptist Sangha School for Blind Girls
77 Sanpara-Parbata, Mirpur Section 10, Dhaka -1216, Bangladesh.
Contact person: Manju Samaddar, Principal
Tel: +880 2 900 2291
Email: bssbg@agni.com
Activities: The aim of the school is to enable blind girls to participate
as fully as possible in all areas of life, to learn academically from
their earliest years and so have the opportunity to become useful members
of their families and society. Programs include: special education, integrated
education, vocational training, residential hostel, rehabilitation, sheltered
workshop, braille book production, and teacher training.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
Fellowship for the Advancement of the Visually Handicapped
18/11 Block C, Tajmahal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh.
Contact person: Mr. Syed Ershad Ahmed, President
Tel: +880 2 812 5212
Fax: +880 2 811 6341
Email: favh@transbd.net
Last updated: 03/05/2007
Helen Keller International Bangladesh
PO Box 6066, Gulshan, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh.
Contact person: Ms. Chantell Witten, Country Director
Tel: + 880 2 882 3494
Fax: + 880 2 885 2137
Web: www.hki.org/network/Bangladesh.html
Activities: Technical assistance for the education and rehabilitation
of the blind. National nutritional surveillance. Homestead gardening for
the elimination of Vitamin A deficiency. Nutrition education and training.
Evaluation of nutrition programmes. Training Unit & Statistics Unit.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
IMPACT Foundation Bangladesh
House No.19, Apartment No.D1, Road No.4, Gulshan-1, Dhaka 1212,
Bangladesh.
Tel: + 880 2 881 5755
Fax: + 880 2 989 3266
Email: impact@dhaka.net
Web: www.impactfoundationbd.org
Activities: Prevent and cure the occurrence of disablement and disease in rural Bangladesh. Promoted by UNDP, UNICEF and WHO in association with the government of each participating country , IMPACT brings together activities, which already exist at international, national and community levels, strengthening and extending them.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
Jatio Andha Sangstna
(National Federation of the Blind)
25 Central Road, Dhanmondi, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh.
Tel: +880 2 506059 / 9671477
Fax: +880 2 816 865 189 / 8013844
Email: ramesh@bdonline.com
Activities: The National Federation of the Blind was formed in
1964 and provides programs on leadership training, socio-cultural activities,
human rights and dignity of less privileged people of Bangladesh and provide
rehabilitation and economic development programs such as saving groups,
small scale income generating groups, credit programs, women development
and skill development.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
Vocational Training Centre for the Blind (VTCB)
4 Main Road, Mirpur-1, Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh.
Tel: +880 2 900 3610
Fax: +880 2 811 3095
Email: vtcb@dhaka.agni.com
Activities: VTCB is an NGO established by the financial support
of the Christoffel Blindenmission-Cbm, Germany and has been working in
the field of training and rehabilitation for the blind and physically
handicapped. VTCB offers one year training to the blind and physically
handicapped of 18 to 25 years age group in different vocations at the
training centre. VTCB also provides services to the visually impaired
and physically handicapped through community based rehabilitation - CBR
programmme.
Last updated: 03/05/2007
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