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E-sight is a
\ndigital education and social integration project for visually impaired children
\nusing the latest technology. The project was first carried out between May 2014
\nand June 2015 by the Save the Children Organisation and financed by the Orange
\nFoundation. 400 children from Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj Napoca, Buzau, Targu
\nFrumos and Arad took part in the project, and a further 1,000 were made aware
\nof the available resources. <\/p>\n

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\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

The project was
\nbased on a survey conducted by the Save the Children Organisation showing that
\n65% of visually impaired children would like to make the others aware of the
\nchallenges they face, whether it’s the access to education or to online
\nservices. Also, most of the children canvassed said they wanted to share the
\nresults of their creative projects with their communities. Teodora Stoica, from
\nSave the Children, says the project demonstrated once again the need for the
\nsocial integration of the visually impaired children:<\/p>\n

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\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

The project’s
\nmain goal was to support the free expression of children and stimulate their interaction
\nwith the others. Our second goal was to increase the public’s awareness about
\nthe situation of visually impaired children. Last but not least, we would like
\nto ensure the access of these children to educational resources adjusted to
\ntheir needs. To carry out our first goal, we held a series of non-formal
\nactivities. We therefore created a group of 55 volunteers who travelled to
\nBucharest, Arad, Timisoara, Cluj Napoca, Targu Frumos and Buzau and carried out
\nnon-formal activities with the children, such as collages, paintings, etc. We
\nalso wanted to increase the awareness of the general public about the situation
\nof visually impaired children so we staged exhibitions featuring the children’s
\nworks. Between May 29th and June 17th we held a series of
\nexhibitions in the cities of Buzau, Arad, Cluj Napoca, Timisoara and Targu
\nFrumos containing the works made by the children during our non-formal
\nactivities.<\/p>\n

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\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

The E-sight
\nproject also entailed the creation of an online platform, which can be accessed
\nat www.esight.ro<\/a>, containing information
\nand applications needed by the children, such as tutorials, mobile apps,
\nreading programmes, etc. The National Library has also come up with proposals
\nto facilitate the access to information of visually impaired persons and help
\nthem integrate into the labour market, says the library’s general director
\nClaudia Serbanuta:<\/p>\n

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\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

We will provide
\nthe public in general and visually impaired people in particular with book
\nlending services in an accessible format. By the end of the year, we would like
\nto be able to provide library permits online and for permit holders to be able
\nto download the book they wish to read using their computers. This is the first
\nservice of this kind in Romania, so we would like everyone to tell us what they
\nwould like to read. What the National Library is trying to do is facilitate
\nchildren’s encounter with books that boost their confidence and give them the
\nstrength to go on.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

The E-sight
\nproject also includes the production of a documentary film telling the story of
\nLivia Frona, a 10-year old visually impaired girl from Targu Frumos who has
\ntaken up the piano:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

I love playing
\nthe piano, because I feel I have a connection with this instrument. My
\nfavourite composer is Mozart. When I play the piano I feel happy. I want to
\nbecome a pianist and, if possible, someday I would like to visit Mozart’s
\nbirthplace in Austria.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

Eusebiu Toma is
\nan equally talented boy. He is 17, goes to high school and likes traditional
\nmusic:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

It was very
\nhard at first, and I didn’t expect I would be able to go this far. I had a lot
\nto learn. But our whole life is a race that we have to win. I started playing
\nmusic at the age of 9, I got a toy organ as a present and I played that. My
\nparents talked to a high school teacher in Botosani, they saw that I liked to
\nplay that organ and at first we placed some stickers on each key, each with a
\ndifferent shape so that I could learn properly. And so it began. When I was 11,
\nmy mother bought me a flute and I used to learn the songs by heart, because I
\ncouldn’t read the sheets, it was really difficult. I would learn each tune
\nafter I recorded it on my phone. Then I moved on to the clarinet, kaval,
\nocarina, and I also intend to learn to play the bagpipe and the telenka.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

The visually
\nimpaired are an underprivileged group in Romanian society, according to recent
\nsurveys which put Romania on one of the last places in Europe in terms of the
\nintegration of the visually impaired into the labour market. Only 1 in 15
\nvisually impaired youth find employment in this country. Here is Simona
\nPenescu, the interim executive director of Orange Romania:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

In theory, the
\nRomanian legislation is good. There is a law that binds large companies to
\nemploy people with disabilities. The problem is that the practical
\nimplementation is very poor. There are a lot of examples of employers who would
\nrather pay a fine to the Government than employ visually impaired people,
\nbecause they are afraid. We should organise roundtables, workshops to explain
\nthese things to employers. Ironically, the few employers who hire these people
\nare extremely happy with the work of their visually impaired staff. So we need
\nto make employers understand that people with disabilities also have a lot of
\nskills.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n
\nAfter graduating from high school, visually
\nimpaired young people have few options to further their education. Those who
\nmanage to integrate well in school rely a lot on the help of their parents, who
\ncover the costs of the equipment needed for the course materials to be adapted
\nto their children’s needs. For instance, the license for a piece of
\ntext-to-speech software is around 1,000 euros. At the moment, there are around
\n3,200 children and over 100,000 visually impaired adults in Romania. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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