BLIND COMMUNITY IN EGYPT
At least 800,000 Egyptians are blind, according to a report by the Egyptian Ministry of Health published in partnership with the World Health Organization.
Blind community has educational problems due to the high cost of braille books that are still used in Egypt despite it not being used for blind people in many countries and using other modern methods like computers. The struggle of blind people in University and been not-recognized, absence of braille books and the only solution is to buy normal books, translating them and then printing them at their own expense.
After high school blind people are not allowed to enrol at science schools, only schools like history.
The blind people are able to work difficult jobs like repairing computers, handy occupations at some centers for blind people like Alnoor Center, AlAmal for blind females in Heliopolis, The Exemplary Center for the Blind in Gesr El Suez in Cairo.
The story won the honorable mention in Egypt press photo contest 2014
Blind community has educational problems due to the high cost of braille books that are still used in Egypt despite it not being used for blind people in many countries and using other modern methods like computers. The struggle of blind people in University and been not-recognized, absence of braille books and the only solution is to buy normal books, translating them and then printing them at their own expense.
After high school blind people are not allowed to enrol at science schools, only schools like history.
The blind people are able to work difficult jobs like repairing computers, handy occupations at some centers for blind people like Alnoor Center, AlAmal for blind females in Heliopolis, The Exemplary Center for the Blind in Gesr El Suez in Cairo.
The story won the honorable mention in Egypt press photo contest 2014
