Today is World Sight Day! Our eyesight is a gift, one of the greatest we can imagine and without it we would surely experience the world in different ways. 39 million people miss the wonderful and essential experience of seeing because they…
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Today: World Sight Day 2013
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Posted in Allgemein
Posted in Allgemein
People who have been helped by our partner ORBIS International
Our People section introduces you to the people in Bangladesh who have been helped by our partner ORBIS International, the non-profit organisation that has been saving sight and helping the blind for more than 30 years. These people suffered from preventable…
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Posted in Leute
TED Talks: How technology is changing blindness
Today TED, the nonprofit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading which has brought together people from technology, entertainment and design since 1984, dedicates six talks to one single topic – a topic that is essential for IWISHUSUN too: blindness. In…
A blind visual artist – Pete Eckert
This is a truly exceptional story: Pete Eckert didn’t take photography seriously. Until he went totally blind. Eckert was trained in sculpture and industrial design and planned to study architecture at Yale, but then he startetd to loose is sight. He…
