It was a proud moment indeed when Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi met our student Reema at the exhibition organised during the Digital India Week 2022. Reema explained how Tactile diagrams created by Raised Lines Foundation (RLF) help her understand visual concepts of Science, Math and Economics. She also described some features of the tactile diagrams to Modi ji, like how different textures are used to denote different colours in the Indian flag and the map of India. She shared that she finds these tactile representations immensely helpful in understanding different visual concepts, and she attributes her 84% score in class 10th to facilities like these, that helped her compete on equal terms with her sighted peers.
Reema presented the honourable Prime Minister with a tactile photo of himself, and Modi ji gave her his blessings.
Reema is a class 12 student studying in Bal Bharati Public School, which is a mainstream school in Noida. Reema is late-blind, and additionally belongs to a low-income family. She has made great strides in learning accessibility and independence skills at the Saksham resource centre in Noida after her vision loss, and now looks forward to enroll in a reputed BBA program after she finishes high school.