Sri Rakum School for the Blind
| Sri Rakum School for the Blind | |
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No 421, Sri Krishna Temple Road, Indiranagar Bangalore, Karnataka India |
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| Type | Private School |
| Established | 1998 |
| Principal | Acharya Sri Rakum |
| Number of students | LKG to Post Graduation |
| Information | +91 80 25215253 / 25215705 |
| Website | http://www.rakum.org |
Sri Rakum School for the Blind is a blind school in the city of Bangalore, India. It offers free education to blind students from kindergarten to post-graduation. The training imparted includes reading and writing through Braille and mobility training for totally blind children. Pre-school age students with the single disability of blindness are trained early on to prepare them for their eventual completion of school, college and vocational education.
The school offers free accommodation for its students. It extends its services to sighted but destitute children. The school has an integrated approach where sighted and blind children live and study in the same environment, which gives a boost and emotional moral support to the blind children that they are not left out. By admitting able-bodied (and underprivileged) students, the school creates a unique atmosphere for the disabled students where they can mingle, interact and help each other. This helps develop their social skills and confidence. The school houses more than 500 students.
The school was started by Acharya Sri Rakum in June 1998. He left behind a career in martial arts in Japan and India to pursue what he calls the "creative use of his power". He is now the principal. The realization that children who were born blind were shunned and denied opportunities to grow inspired him to start the school. The children hail from villages and tribal belts and come from very poor families. The school is a unique non-governmental organization running entirely on support by patrons and donations by the general public and corporate organizations.
The school has three branches:
The school's curriculum focuses on the acquisition of life skills as many extracurricular activities like karate, yoga, music, dance, fine arts and crafts are encouraged. The school has a computer training center equipped with screen-reading software to assist and enable the visually impaired to work with computers.
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