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Hong Kong Society for the Blind
Mission: "To work with and to serve the visually impaired in every useful way, both through direct services of the Society and by cooperative effort with other community resources."
In China since: 1988
Annual China budget: $1,815,980
International Contact:
Grace Chen, 陈梁一明
Chief Executive
九龍南昌街248號
248 Nam Cheong Street
Shamshuipo
Hong Kong Kowloon
Tel: +852 2778 8332
Fax: +852 2788 1336
The Society is a major service provider for visually impaired people in Hong Kong. It manages vocational, rehabilitation and volunteer training programmes, employment services, a children’s centre, four nursing homes, and a Braille Printing House. It also advises government agencies and the private sector on making buildings accessible to visually impaired people.
In 1988, the Society began its work on the China mainland by subsidising cataract operations through the China Disabled Persons Federation. Since then, it has donated a total of eight Mobile Eye Treatment Centres – trucks equipped with facilities to perform eye surgery -- to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Heilongjiang, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces. (These mobile units were entrusted, variously, to the provincial Disabled Persons Federation, Heath Bureaus or Red Cross Society). Each mobile unit is expected to travel in rural areas, performing at least 1000 operations per year, fifteen percent of which must be free of charge.
In 1996 the Society began a project in Guangxi to improve integration of visually impaired children into rural schools. A resource centre was established in Nanning, with Braille printing equipment, language learning tools and teacher training facilities. This is used to prepare rural teachers for accepting visually impaired children into their schools.
The society is also funding training of ophthalmologists in Gansu.
Hong Kong Society for the Blind is funded through government grants, fees for services, and private donations
Links
http://www.hksb.org.hk
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