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BUILDING NEW LIVES FOR BLIND PEOPLE:
HKI REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION
Building a world of vision means helping blind
people build lives for themselves. HKI's self-help
education and rehabilitation programs have one
aim: to provide the professional know-how and
practical skills that will aid blind people to
become active, participating, accepted members
of their communities. .. to realize their full potential
as human beings.
Translating this global mission into action last
year took HKI-trained field workers, professional
staff, and consultants to countries where
hardships are almost unendurable, even for
sighted persons. From primitive parts of India to
poverty-stricken rice paddies of Indonesia. . . from
hot and humid baranguays of the Philippines to
isolated, hard-to-reach villages in Fiji. . . traveling
on horseback, on bicycles, or on foot, HKI
workers are often the only hope of these destitute
blind people.
The Philippines: Thousands of blind Filipinos
today receive services and training not available
to them only a year ago. HKI has expanded its
rehabilitation projects from two to five regions in
the Philippines during the last 12 months.
In Misamis Oriental, Ilioiolo and Capiz
Provinces, for example, HKI workers have
journeyed from one outlying village to the next to
conduct programs tailored to the needs of each
blind person. They teach the blind everyday living
skills that sighted people take for granted. Blind
people learn to cook and clean. They learn
to move about their villages safely. Most
important, they learn vocational skills, such
as raising vegetables and poultry, so they can
earn a living.
Within the next decade, HKI expects to see
such service programs operating in all rural
villages of the Philippines, reaching the vast
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