Turnstone Global believes every person has potential to do excel in life including differently abled. With this moto Turnstone Global is working tirelessly for last 3 decades to support differently abled to stand on their own fit. We do not believe in charity, we believe that it is always better to teach a person with disability how to catch fish instead of feeding him/her fish every day. Turnstone Global dreams for that day which will come once in future that every person will look towards the disability with self-respect believing that ability is a subjective issue and disability is just a diversity which needs reasonable accommodation in the society. In that process our nation will be developed because then India will have more differently abled tax payer instead of dependent individual as social burden.
Training for Teachers of Government Schools under Samagra Siksha Mission West Bengal : Turnstone Global feels fortunate to have been entrusted with the task of providing training to the Teachers and Special Educators of Schools under Samagra Siksha Mission in West Bengal . The Samagra Siksha Mission is responsible for education of children with special… Continue reading Training for Teachers of Government Schools under Sarva Siksha Mission
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Distribution of Aids & Appliances for Differently Abled:In its quest to equip persons with disability and support them with modern technological devices thus enabling them to combat their challenge, Turnstone Global distributes aids and appliances such as I-Pods, CD-Players, Smart Canes and so on. Annually, on an average, approximately 200 beneficiaries are provided with such… Continue reading Aids & Appliances
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Awareness on the Rights of Differently abled:To highlight the problems faced by the differently abled and explore possible solutions of this problem, Turnstone Global conducts seminars on regular basis where educationists, policy makers and dignitaries meet to exchange views. Purpose is to influence policy makers to formulate effective education system for the differently abled. Recently,… Continue reading Awareness on the Rights of Differently abled
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Awareness for Parents of Children with Special Needs with Samagra Siksha Mission:Survey reveals that children with special needs (CWSN) are often secluded from any kind of social participation including education. They remain within the confinement of their homes. Lack of awareness among parents about what these children can do and achieve is primary cause of… Continue reading Awareness for Parents of CWSN
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With the support of Amway Opportunity Foundation; Turnstone Global runs a skill development program for visually challenged persons aged between 18-35 years by providing training on various vocational skill and sustainable employment opportunities with the aim to enable the youth with visual impairment to live financially independent lives. The program comprises of Basic Skill building… Continue reading Skill development for visually impaired
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In addition to education and vocational training, Turnstone Global also provides classes on music to its visually challenged beneficiaries. Here, Visually Challenged beneficiaries are given regular lessons on vocal music, musical instruments and rhythm instruments. A good number of beneficiaries of this music training programme had been chosen to form a musical band called “ULKA”.… Continue reading Music Training Classes
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Turnstone Global always encourage its visually challenged beneficiaries to participate in playing football. Although this may sound quite astonishing to the sighted people who may find this impossible but our blind beneficiaries have achieved remarkable success in National Level competitions under the aegis of IBSA. In this game, each team comprises of four visually challenged… Continue reading Football
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Cricket is most popular sports across world. But cricket specially for the blind, is another sport where Turnstone Global puts special thrust. In the cricket for visually challenged players, a sonic ball is being used which makes a unique sound while it is being thrown towards the visually challenged player standing with the bat in… Continue reading Cricket
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Among other sports forms, Turnstone Global always gives special emphasis on Chess. Chess is perhaps the only game in the world which a visually challenged player can play at par with his/her sighted counterpart. For the last four years, Turnstone Global is nurturing chess in different schools. We have also organised a state and national… Continue reading Chess
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Car Rally has been at the helm of adventure sports globally. In an endeavour not to deprive the visually challenged from this adventurous feeling and also to show the society that they are no-less capable than their sighted counterparts, every year, Turnstone Global organise an unique car rally for the visually challenged. Unique feature of… Continue reading Car Rally for the Blind
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With a multidisciplinary approach Therapeutic intervention always plays a major role to provide better prognosis and various intervention strategies for our special need children/young adults at Turnstone Global.At different therapy centres of Turnstone Global ,our extremely well trained team of Rehabilitation professionals through our high tech therapeutic units equipped with state of art technology and… Continue reading Rehabilitation Therapy
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Eradication of Preventable Blindness – Eye Care on Wheels Preventable blindness is a signature programme of Turnstone Global. Under this programme we do eye screening of Children, Adults and Elders in nook and corner of urban slums and rural areas.A Mobile Van equipped with sophisticated ophthalmic instruments along with an expert medical team lead by… Continue reading Erradication of Preventable Blindness
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Audiometry Screeing Camps Turnstone Global organises Audiometric screening Camps to find out the victims of Hearing Impairment with an objective to provide Hearing Aids to underprivileged persons. Screening camps are being held once every three months under the supervision of expert Audiologist and subsequently patients from economically weaker sections are being provided hearing aid absolutely… Continue reading Audiometry and distribution of Hearing Aids
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Scholarship For Economically Backward Students & Students With Disability To boost the morale of the students and promote education among the underprivileged, Turnstone Global offers educational scholarship, both at school and college level. Earlier this opportunity was only provided to students suffering from visual impairments. Later by widening that scope of activities with the motto… Continue reading Scholarship
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Large print books are globally accepted form of books which persons including children with low vision can read without facing any difficulty. Besides other available device- like e-books, large print books are accepted to be the cheapest form. Since then Turnstone Global happens to be the only NGO in West Bengal which provide the large… Continue reading Large print Text books for the students with Low Vision
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Library services for the Physically Challenged people at Tripura Successfully established physically challenged corner at Birchandra State Central Library – Agartala Nazrul Granthagar at North District Public Library Unakuti District Public Library Dharamnagar District Library and Khowai District District Library All these libraries have been made disable friendly by setup special sitting arrangements and furniture.… Continue reading Establishing and Maintaining Accessible Library for the Physically Challenged
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The person who cannot see the light, for them education is the only candle in the dark. Turnstone Global implements projects for the marginalized and underprivileged section of the population with an emphasis regarding the needs of people who are differently able. The Braille Press is one of the key intervention of Turnstone Global regarding… Continue reading Braille Press
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“The Braille books are very expensive and, more importantly not always available, this library is like oasis for student like me.” – A visually impaired student expresses her feelings about facility of the library. With the cooperation of University of Calcutta, Turnstone Global set up a Braille and Digital Audio Library at College Street Campus… Continue reading Braille and Audio Digital Library at the University of Calcutta
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