62 years working for the inclusion of visually impaired individuals

Abstract

In the occasion of 200 years world commemoration of the Braille system creator birth, the emeritus and lifelong president of Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos, who has worked for more than 60 years for the social inclusion of the visually impaired individuals in Brazil and elected last year by Forbes Magazine as one of the most influent women in this country, tells us about her life in this testimonial for revista Comunicação & Educação. Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos is the major publisher of Braille books in Brazil. It produces books on Literature, Textbooks, Music Scores, among other materials. In
2007, it reached the impressive production of 33 million pages of Braille. Books published by that organization are freely distributed for visually impaired individuals and more than 1.650 organizations, such as schools, universities, and associations.