World Sight Day: Kabir Bedi Gives a Tour of Mumbai to Visually Impaired Kids
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World Sight Day: Kabir Bedi Gives a Tour of Mumbai to Visually Impaired Kids

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World Sight Day is annually celebrated on the second Thursday of October to raise awareness about vision impairment and blindness. In 2020 World Sight Day was celebrated on 8th October globally and a short film Breaking Barriers was released which saw veteran actor Kabir Bedi spending a day with six visually impaired children from Rajasthan and Jharkhand and gave them a tour of Mumbai. They visited the Juhu Beach, went on a boat tour from Gateway of India and also found out about the various technologies used for the visually impaired by the reputed St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai. The children are educated under the Sightsavers Education Program which runs in five states of India namely The programme is being run in five states namely, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha.

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