Agencies Serving Blind & Partially Sighted People

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Belgium

Amis des Aveugles
Rue de la Barriere 37-39, 7011 Ghln-Mons, Belgium.
Contact person: Ms. Denise Bredas-Tis, Director
Tel: +32 65 40 31 00
Fax: +32 65 40 31 09
Email: info@amisdesaveugles.be
Web: www.amisdesaveugles.be
Activities: Guide dog training; Social centre; Ophthalmic services, Residential home for older blind and partially sighted people; Workshop; Braille transcription service.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Anna Temmerman Vereniging vzw, Belangenvereniging Rond Doofblindheid
Snaggaardstraat 9, 8000 Brugge, Belgium.
Tel: +32 50 340341
Fax: +32 50 337306
Email: info@mpi-spermalie.be
Activities: The board of this organisation consists of 1 parent of a multihandicapped deafblind, 3 deafblind persons to two professionals. The organisation disseminates information on deafblindness, stimulates all kinds of initiatives and has contacts in order to ameliorate the situation of deafblind people. Recently there is more awarenesss for deafblindness in organisations for the deaf or the blind.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Belgisch Centrum voor Geleidehonden vzw
Maastrichtersteenweg 64, 3700 Tongeren, Belgium.
Tel: +32 12 234319
Fax: +32 12 394124
Email: bcg@geleidehond.be
Web: www.geleidehond.be
Activities: The Belgian Centre for Guide Dogs aims to help visually impaired people towards greater independence. All our work goes towards fulfilling one or more of our three objectives: the breeding and training of guide dogs, the training visually impaired people to use guide dogs and providing ongoing aftercare. The dogs, training and aftercare are provided free of charge.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Belgische Confederatie voor Blinden en Slechtzienden (BCBS)
Avenue Georges Henri 278, B-1200 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Tel: +32 2 732 53 24
Fax: +32 2 735 64 53
Email: bcbs.cbpam@skynet.be
Activities: A Belgian umbrella organization of the blind and member of the EBU and the WBU. The members of the confederation are schools, service providers, organisations of and for the blind. The confederation provides information to members, conducts research and organizes contact with the government. The confederation has work groups such as Social Rights, Rehabilitation and Employment, Education and accessibility, Euro, Culture, Sports and Leisure, and Youth.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Blindenzorg Licht en Liefde vzw
(Blind Welfare Service Light & Charity)
Oudenburgweg 40, B-8490 Varsenare, Belgium.
Contact person: Jan Dewitte (Documentation Service)
Tel: +32 50 40 60 53
Fax: +32 50 38 64 83
Email: docu@blindenzorglichtenliefde.be
Web: www.blindenzorglichtenliefde.be
Activities: Accommodation, activity centre, advice, campaigning, contact opportunities, cultural activities, documentation and information, education, family activities, federation for members, group advocacy, holiday service, home teaching, leisure activities, library (audio and braille), magazine, text production (braille, large print, audio and digital), mobility service, networking, rehabilitation, social services, social and cultural movement, technical aids service, technology advice, training, volunteer opportunities, website screening, self-help. Branches in the main towns of Dutch speaking Belgium.
Last updated: 03/04/2006

Brailleliga
(Ligue Braille)
Engelandstraat 57, Brussels, B-1060, Belgium.
Tel: +32 2 533 3211
Fax: +32 2 537 6426
Email: info@braille.be
Web: www.braille.be
Activities: National Institute for the welfare of the blind and partially sighted persons providing social and cultural services in French and Dutch including talking books, Braille production library; workshops and vocational rehabilitation centres; professional training centres; household training courses (also in Germans), mobility centre (also in German), provision of guide dogs; technical devices services (also in German); study and documentation centre about blindness and low vision; specialised professional orientation and psychosocial consultants; welfare services; recreation. Branches in main towns all over Belgium, including the German speaking area.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Handicapé Visuel Formation Emploi asbl (HVFE)
Rue Winston Churchill 121a, B-6180 Courcelles, Belgium.
Contact Person: Vinciane Hoornaert
Tel: +32 71 46 18 08
Fax: +32 71 46 06 50
Email: info@hvfe.be
Web: www.hvfe.be
Activities: HVFE teaches the blind and the visually impaired to work with computers.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Institut Alexandre Herlin
Rue de Dilbeek 1, Bruxelles, B-1082, Belgium.
Tel: +32 2 465 5960
Fax: +32 2 465 0687
Email: alexandre_herlin@belgacom.net
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Institut d'Enseignement Spécial
Rue du Temple 2, Ghlin, B-7011, Belgium.
Tel: +32 65 31 71 41
Fax: +32 65 84 09 95
Email: info@cpesm.be
Web: www.cpesm.be
Activities: Offers educational courses and therapeutic sessions for children with disabilities.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Institut Royal pour Sourds et Aveugles
Chaussée de Waterloo 1508, Bruxelles, B-1180, Belgium.
Tel: +32 2 374 0368
Fax: +32 2 375 7313
Email: uccle@c-h-s.be
Web: www.irsa.be
Activities: Informing and disseminating information; Education and rehabilitation services.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Kasterlinden
Dilbeekstraat 1, 1082 Saint-Agatha-Berchem, Brussels, Belgium.
Tel: +32 2 465 5896
Fax: +32 2 465 6711
Email: kasterlinden@vgc.be
Web: kasterlinden.vgc.be
Activities: Kindergarten, primary and secondary schools for children with a visual impairment and/or multiple handicaps. Kindergarten and primary school have individualized teaching, adapted devices for the blind and partially - sighted children supported by speech therapists, educational-psychologists, physiotherapists. Secondary school has professional training integration in workshop, teaching and vocational training aiming at a total integration in office and sales technology.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Koninklijk Instituut Spermalie voor Auditief en Visueel Gehandicapten
Medisch Pedagogisch Instituut, Snaggaardstraat 9, B-8000 Brugge, Belgium.
Tel: +32 50 47 19 60
Fax: +32 50 33 73 06
Email: info@mpi-spermalie.be
Web: www.ki-spermalie.be
Activities: Aids the social and professional inclusion into society of visually impaired children.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Koninklijk Instituut Woluwe
(Royal Institute Woluwe)
Georges Henrilaan 278, B-1200 Brussel (Sint-Lambrechts Woluwe), Belgium.
Contact name: Peter Beckers
Tel: +32 2 735 4085
Fax: +32 2 733 2463
Email: ki.doven.en.blinden@fracarita.org
Web: www.kiwoluwe.be
Activities: Boarding and semi-boarding (high) school for visually handicapped pupils. General education and professional training. Guidance and assisstance in integrated education. Mobility training. Review: "Infor-Woluwe".
Last updated: 03/04/2006

Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Blinden en Slechtzienden
(Royal Association for Blind and Partially Sighted People)
Durletstraat 43, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium.
Tel: +03 248 54 78
Fax: +03 248 08 63
Email: info@kmbsvzw.be
Web: www.kmbsvzw.be/
Activities: Social integration and vocational training, including mobility services. Training on use of devices in the low vision training centre. Also offers lessons in braille, learning to walk with a white cane and lessons in daily activities in the client's home. Advocates the rights of blind and visually impaired people.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

La Lumiere
Rue Sainte-Veronique 17, Liège B-4000, Belgium.
Tel: +32 42 22 35 35
Fax: +32 42 21 23 56
Email: lalumiere@lalumiere.be
Web: www.lalumiere.be
Activities: Low vision services; ophthalmic care and optometry; orientation, mobility and daily living skills; Braille training; education guidance; research (prescription lighting, visual photometry, special filters); social skills.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Progebraille Helen Keller vzw (PHK)
C. Van Malderenstraat 33, B-1731 Zellik, Belgium.
Contact person: Mia Engels, Director
Tel: +32 2 466 94 40
Fax: +32 2 466 92 86
Email: info@phk.be
Web: www.phk.be
Activities: PHK is a non-profit organisation which lays emphasis on the integration of visually impaired people by providing any written information like books, educational texts, letters and periodicals in an accessible format (Braille, large print, tapes and discs). PHK's main activities involve producing accessible versions of the educational books and texts college students need to pursue a normal academic career. PHK also supply the special libraries with Braille books and books on tape. PHK is a member of the Daisy-consortium, an international audio-project from organisations for the blind, which co-operate to digitalise spoken books and to provide a standardised system.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Vereniging van Blinden en Slechtzienden Licht en Liefde vzw (VeBeS)
(Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired Licht en Liefde)
Oudenburgweg 40, B-8490 Varsenare, Belgium.
Contact person: Yvette Vervoort
Tel: +32 50 40 60 56
Fax: +32 50 40 60 57
Email: info@vebes.be
Web: www.vebes.be
Activities: VeBeS is a Catholic organisation which defends the interests of all blind and partially sighted people (whatever their religion) before government agencies and private organisations. For its members it provides a wide variety of education, cultural, leisure activities and information. Advocacy and representation on National, European (EBU) and World (WBU) levels. Study of the problems of the blind and visually impaired.
Last updated: 02/05/2007

Vlaamse Luister-en Braillebibliotheek
(Flemish Library for the Blind)
Gustave Schildknechtstraat 28, Brussels, 1020, Belgium.
Tel: +32 2 423 0411
Fax: +32 2 423 0415
Email: vlbb@bibliotheek.be
Web: http://vlbb.bib.vlaanderen.be/
Activities: Provides a service for visually impaired people and for all people who have a print impairment. The VLBB has 16200 talking book titles and 4200 Braille titles. VLBB is a member of the Daisy Consortium and is currently making the transition from analogue to digital talking books (DAISY).
Last updated: 02/05/2007