White Cane Day – 2009
NAB – PNM Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind
Mount Abu
White Cane Day is an international awareness event to celebrate the importance of the long cane and to promote a safe environment for long cane users. The Day was held on 15th. October 2009. The Long cane: the “traditional" white cane, also known as a "Hoover" cane, after Dr. Richard Hoover, is designed primarily as a mobility tool used to detect objects in the path of a user. Cane length depends upon the height of a user, and traditionally extends from the floor to the user's sternum. Some organizers favor the use of much longer canes. "Kiddie" cane version works in the same way as an adult's long cane, but is designed for use by children
Blind people have used canes as mobility tools for centuries, but it was not until after World War I that the white cane was introduced. In 1921 James Biggs, a photographer from Bristol who became blind after an accident and was uncomfortable with the amount of traffic around his home, painted his walking stick white to be more easily visible. In 1931 in France, Guilly d'Herbemont launched a national white stick movement for blind people and in the USA President Lyndon Johnson was the first to make this proclamation.
The Rotary Club of Mount Abu with its women wing, the Inner Wheel Club Mount Abu joined hands with NAB – PNM, Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind, Mount Abu to celebrate the same with a difference. In their on going awareness program of “Agyaat Se Gyaat Tak” (from unknown to known) in which sighted groups are blindfolded and then are escorted by the Visually Challenged of the centre carrying their White Cane to the downtown has been going on since 1st. October, as this is not only the month of Right to Sight and the month in which “World Sight Day” is celebrated on 8th. October but the White Cane Day too is held world wide during this month on 15th. October. To signoff the program the centre was joined by the officers of local Air Force Station in uniform, to spread awareness about the abilities and the disabilities of the visually challenged and also the need to eradicate avoidable blindness, as every 5 second some one somewhere on the earth is becoming blind unnecessary and the number keeps increasing in which today half are from India and of which three-forth are women. The program had commenced on 1st. October with Bharat Scout members with their CO Mr. Jitnedra Singh Bhati, being the first volunteers followed by many organizations including the ladies of Inner Wheel Club with all their filial milk of kindness it was signed off today with the Station Commander Group Captain Mr. Deepak Kumar Maheshwari giving the commend of forward march to all his brave air officers and many others like Dr. Dengla the visually challenged principal of the centre, Mr. Daulatram Lalwani, today’s sponsor of the march to his hotel Maya International, Dr. A. K. Sharma the Hon, Sec. of the centre and all other staff of the centre!
NAB – PNM Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind
Mount Abu
White Cane Day is an international awareness event to celebrate the importance of the long cane and to promote a safe environment for long cane users. The Day was held on 15th. October 2009. The Long cane: the “traditional" white cane, also known as a "Hoover" cane, after Dr. Richard Hoover, is designed primarily as a mobility tool used to detect objects in the path of a user. Cane length depends upon the height of a user, and traditionally extends from the floor to the user's sternum. Some organizers favor the use of much longer canes. "Kiddie" cane version works in the same way as an adult's long cane, but is designed for use by children
Blind people have used canes as mobility tools for centuries, but it was not until after World War I that the white cane was introduced. In 1921 James Biggs, a photographer from Bristol who became blind after an accident and was uncomfortable with the amount of traffic around his home, painted his walking stick white to be more easily visible. In 1931 in France, Guilly d'Herbemont launched a national white stick movement for blind people and in the USA President Lyndon Johnson was the first to make this proclamation.
The Rotary Club of Mount Abu with its women wing, the Inner Wheel Club Mount Abu joined hands with NAB – PNM, Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind, Mount Abu to celebrate the same with a difference. In their on going awareness program of “Agyaat Se Gyaat Tak” (from unknown to known) in which sighted groups are blindfolded and then are escorted by the Visually Challenged of the centre carrying their White Cane to the downtown has been going on since 1st. October, as this is not only the month of Right to Sight and the month in which “World Sight Day” is celebrated on 8th. October but the White Cane Day too is held world wide during this month on 15th. October. To signoff the program the centre was joined by the officers of local Air Force Station in uniform, to spread awareness about the abilities and the disabilities of the visually challenged and also the need to eradicate avoidable blindness, as every 5 second some one somewhere on the earth is becoming blind unnecessary and the number keeps increasing in which today half are from India and of which three-forth are women. The program had commenced on 1st. October with Bharat Scout members with their CO Mr. Jitnedra Singh Bhati, being the first volunteers followed by many organizations including the ladies of Inner Wheel Club with all their filial milk of kindness it was signed off today with the Station Commander Group Captain Mr. Deepak Kumar Maheshwari giving the commend of forward march to all his brave air officers and many others like Dr. Dengla the visually challenged principal of the centre, Mr. Daulatram Lalwani, today’s sponsor of the march to his hotel Maya International, Dr. A. K. Sharma the Hon, Sec. of the centre and all other staff of the centre!
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