“Empowering the Blind & Visually Impaired: The Experience of an Indian Activist”
Monday April 16, 3:00 pm
Class of 1947 Room Babbidge Library
A Talk by George Abraham
George Abraham is an activist and advocate for the rights of the
blind in India. As the founding chairman of the World Blind
Cricket Council, he launched competitive blind cricket in India.
He organized the first World Cricket competition in New Delhi in
1990. He established Project Eyeway, a single stop knowledge
resource on life with blindness, bringing together information as
well as organizations working with the blind onto a single platform.
He co-authored The Handbook of Inclusive Education for Educators,
Administrators, and Planners: Within Walls, Without Boundaries.
The book presents a collection of various models, practices,
experiences, first-hand accounts and success stories from India.
It also identifies and analyzes challenges to the Indian education
system, while offering possible strategies and solutions for all
education systems implementing inclusion policies.
Project Eyeway’s mission involves “realizing personal independence,
economic self-reliance, and social inclusion for all visually impaired
people in India. Its overall objectives are as follows: 1) To inform,
inspire, and empower all people with visual impairment and 2) To
realize equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities for people with
visual impairment.
Co-sponsored by the India Studies Program, the Asian and Asian American Studies
Institute & The Human Rights Institute
For more information, contact: Betty Hanson at 860-742-8628