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World Braille Day Jan 04
๐ช๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฌ - January 4, 2025
International Observance - ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต
๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
World Braille Day on January 4 is celebrated to honor the birth of Brailleโs inventor, Louis Braille. Brailleโs gift to the world has brightened the lives of millions of people around the world who are blind or visually impaired, and they benefit from his work every day. The day also acknowledges that those with visual impairments deserve the same standard of human rights as everyone else.
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The term โBrailleโ was dubbed after its creator. Louis Braille was a Frenchman who lost his eyesight as a child when he accidentally stabbed himself in the eye with his fatherโs awl. From the age of 10, he spent time at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in France, where he formulated and perfected the system of raised dots that eventually became known as Braille.
Braille completed his work, developing a code based on cells with six dots, making it possible for a fingertip to feel the entire cell unit with one touch and moving quickly from one cell to the next. Eventually, Braille slowly came to be accepted throughout the world as the main form of written information for blind people. Unfortunately,...
International Observance - ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต
๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
World Braille Day on January 4 is celebrated to honor the birth of Brailleโs inventor, Louis Braille. Brailleโs gift to the world has brightened the lives of millions of people around the world who are blind or visually impaired, and they benefit from his work every day. The day also acknowledges that those with visual impairments deserve the same standard of human rights as everyone else.
๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ
The term โBrailleโ was dubbed after its creator. Louis Braille was a Frenchman who lost his eyesight as a child when he accidentally stabbed himself in the eye with his fatherโs awl. From the age of 10, he spent time at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in France, where he formulated and perfected the system of raised dots that eventually became known as Braille.
Braille completed his work, developing a code based on cells with six dots, making it possible for a fingertip to feel the entire cell unit with one touch and moving quickly from one cell to the next. Eventually, Braille slowly came to be accepted throughout the world as the main form of written information for blind people. Unfortunately,...
