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Funding Agencies
Listed here are funding agencies that support initiatives directed towards persons with visual impairments:
Action on Disability and Development, (ADD)
Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled (ACROD)
Christoffel-Blindenmission SARO (South)
Christian Blind Mission International
Dhun Pestonji Parakh Discretionary Trust
Deutsche Katholisches Blindenwerk (DKBW
Foresight – Australian Overseas Aid and Prevention of Blindness Organisation
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
International Committee for the Blind
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Organisation Pour La Prevention De La Cecite
Tokyo Helen Keller Association (THKA)
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
ABILIS Foundation, a development fund, founded by Finnish disabled people in 1998. They give financial support to organisations of disabled people in the South.
The organisation’s goal is to support activities which promote
- equal opportunities
- independent living
- human rights
- and economic self-sufficiency of disabled people.
The main activity is to give micro grants up to 10000 euros to organisations run by disabled people. The organisation can be at the grassroots. Special focus is given on human rights and disabled women.
contact details: Abilis
Aleksanterinkatu 48 A
00100 Helsinki
FINLAND
Phone: +35896821725
Fax: +358961240333
E-mail: abilis@abilis.fi
Website: www.abilis.fi
Action on Disability and Development, (ADD)
Action on Disability and Development has a vision of a world where all disabled people are able to participate as fully as they choose at every level of society.
ADD works with groups and organizations. ADD offices are staffed with nationals of that country and many staff is disabled themselves.
contact details: Action on Disability and
Development, (ADD)
Vallis House, 57 Vallis Road,
Frome, Somerset, BA11 3EG
United Kingdom
Phone: +44(0)1373473064
Fax: +44(0)1373452075
E-mail: add@add.org.uk
Website: www.add.org.uk
AIFO has chosen to focus its activities in supporting leprosy affected persons and persons with disabilities through integrated development projects, with particular attention towards the poorest and vulnerable groups of persons, in a spirit of partnership.
AIFO operates within 50 countries. AIFO aims to be present where the situation is critical and very poor.
contact details: AIFO
Via Borselli 4-6
40135 Bologna
Italy
Phone: +390-51-433402
Fax: +390-51-434046
E-mail: info@aifo.it
Website: www.aifo.it
Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled (ACROD)
The organisation’s goal is to support activities which promote the welfare of the blind persons at National and International level. Assistance is provided to hospitals by equipping and training Doctors to perform eye operations.
Contact details: Australian Council for
Rehabilitation of Disabled
PO Box 60
Curtin Act 2605
Phone : +6162824333
Fax : +6162813488
E-mail : 6162813488@faxaway.com
Christoffel-Blindenmission SARO (South)
Funds and supports organisations working for the visually impaired.
Contact details: Gunawathy Fernandez
Asst. Regional Representative
Christoffel Blindenmission
559, 11th Main HAL II Stage
Bangalore 560008
Fax: 5293880
E-mail: cbmsaros@vsnl.com
Website: http://www.christoffel-blindenmission.de/home/index.html
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has its offices are located in Los Angeles, California and Reno, Nevada. The Foundation identifies critical societal needs, then proactively initiates major, long-term projects with appropriate partner organisations to implement them. The Foundation supports the following areas:
- Catholic sisters
- Blindness-related services and prevention
- Domestic violence
- Early childhood development
- Housing for the mentally ill homeless
- Hotel and restaurant management education
- Safe water development
- Substance abuse
Contact details: 10100 Santa Monica Blvd.
Suite 1000
Los Angeles
California 90067
Phone: (310) 556-4694
Fax: (310) 556-2301
E-mail: cnhf@hiltonfoundation.org
Website: http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/
Christian Blind Mission International
The organisation provides service to the blind and handicapped people working in over 90 Third World Countries. Supports nearly 1000 individual projects; enable doctors, nurses, teachers, etc. to share their skills with the poorest of the poor.
Contact Details: Christian Blind Mission
International
PO Box 5
1245, Burke Road
Kew Vic 3101
Australia
Phone: +610398174566
Dark and Light Blind Care aims specifically to assist
blind and visually impaired children by means of projects that structurally
improve their independence.
It aims to support:
- Integrated education for children with visual impairment and assist projects to facilitate this type of education.
- Orientation and mobility courses and training in daily living skills.
- The training of eye doctors, eye nurses and field workers and the establishment of specialised eye care centres.
- The prevention of blindness.
- Projects for people with low vision and for the multiple disabled blind persons.
Contact details: PO-box 672
3900 AR Veenendaal
The Netherlands
Phone:+31-318-561501
Telefax: +31-318-561577
E-Mail: info@darkandlight.org
Website: http://www.darkandlight.org
Office:
Vendelier 13
3905 PB Veenendaal
The Netherlands
Dhun Pestonji Parakh Discretionary Trust
Contact details:
C/O Mr. D.F. Pocha
73-A, Sea Lord
117, Cuffe Parade
Mumbai 400005
Phone: +91-22-2181502
Deutsche Katholisches Blindenwerk (DKBW)
DKBW is a Catholic organisation for the welfare of the blind only – supports such projects which are for the benefit of the blind in sending them materials such as Braille papers, while canes etc.
Contact details: Deutsche Katholisches
Blindenwerk (DKBW)
Eschstrabe 12D-52351
DurenGermany
Phone: + 49-2421-51155
Fax: + 49-2421-51184
E-mail: dkbw.dueren@t-online.de
Ford Foundation has the following objectives:
- Strengthen democratic values,
- Reduce poverty and injustice,
- Promote international cooperation, and
- Advance human achievement
Contact details: 55 Lodi Estate
New Delhi 110003
India
Phone: + 91-11-2461-9441
Fax: +91-11-2462-7147
E-mail: ford-delhi@fordfound.org
Website: http://www.fordfound.org
Foresight – Australian Overseas Aid and Prevention of Blindness Organisation
The organisation aims specifically to assist in the cure, prevention and rehabilitation of blindness. Support for projects to assist the blind in Asia and committed to the prevention and cure of blindness in the developing countries. To develop structures to make eye care services available to the people who need them and to provide eye care equipment and supplies are some other focus areas.
Contact Details: Foresight–Australian
Overseas Aid
and Prevention of Blindness Organisation
345, Crown Street
Sydney
Surrey Hills
NSW 2010
Australia
HI’s work focuses on treatment, prevention, integration: multi-disciplinary programmes to improve the living conditions of individuals faced with situations of disability or high vulnerably.
Hi works through partnership and conventions with fewer groups and organisations.
contact details:
Handicap International (HI)
14 Avenue
Berthelot 69361
LYON CEDEX 07
FRANCE
Phone: +33(0)478 697979
Fax : +33(0)478 697994
E-mail: contact@handicap-international.org
Website: www.handicap-international.org
Hildesheimer Blindmission focuses on education and professional job training for blind children and adults to enable them to be as independent as possible and earn their living as adults. Also supports home for the aged, rehabilitation centres for the handicapped and home for the blind.
Contact Details: Hildesheimer Blindmission
Mission of Hildesheim for the blind
Sedanstresse 35
3200 Hildesheim
Germany
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
Established as a co-ordinating, umbrella organization to lead an international effort in mobilising resources for blindness prevention activities. Its role is one of advocacy and information sharing and it aims to encourage the formation of national prevention of blindness committees and programmes.
contact details: International Agency for
the Prevention of Blindness
IAPB Secretariat,
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, L.V. Parasad Marg,
Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad 500034
Phone: +91-40-3545389
Fax: +91–40-3548271
E-mail: IAPB@lvpeye.stph.net
Website: www.iapb.org/
International Committee for the Blind
International Committee for the Blind has the following objectives :
- Promote and ensure spiritual and apostolic and social training and action of the blind.
- Secure their moral, intellectual and material well being to co-ordinate international activity based on Christian principles.
- Support programmes for the blind in the Third World.
- Organise meetings, congress and sessions in this regard.
Contact Details: International Committee
for the Blind
8 rue Francois-Eile Dujenne
St. Satur
F-183000
Sancerre
France
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
The Ministry implements the following schemes to benefit disabled people:
- Assistance to Disabled Persons for Purchase/ Fitting of Aids and Appliances
- Scheme to Promote Voluntary Action for Persons with Disabilities (Renamed w.e.f 25.09.2003 as Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme)
Contact details:
Smt. Jayati Chandra
Joint Secretary
R.No. 611, 'A' Wing,
Shastri Bhawan,
New Delhi
Phone: +91-11-2338 1643 (O)
Fax: +91-11-2338 4918
E-mail: jsdd@sb.nic.in
Website: http://socialjustice.nic.in/disabled/welcome.htm
The organisation’s objective is to help deaf people in developing countries and to promote the rights of the deaf, to encourage and promote the creation of deaf peoples’ organisations. Support production of sign language dictionaries, special education centres for the blind and physically disabled. NDF also supports Nordic conferences for deaf people planning activities in developing countries.
Contact details: Norges Doveforbund (NDF)
Gamle Borgen vei 5, 1385 Asker
Phone : +66907070
E-mail: norgesdoveforbund@c2i.net
ORBIS exists to preserve and restore sight worldwide. It works in partnership with local health professionals to improve the quality of eye care available for people in countries where the need is great.
ORBIS has a unique Flying Eye Hospital which visits countries at the request of the local government and, in conjunction with the local medical community, tailors an ophthalmic programme to local needs. It travels to developing countries where the 25-member ORBIS medical team and visiting volunteer doctors perform surgeries with a keen focus on training local eye care professionals from the host country. It carries a clinic for laser treatment and an operating theatre where doctors can attend surgeries performed by our volunteer surgeons. Video links to a classroom on board and an external conference room may also be used to train doctors to perform similar surgeries.
ORBIS has established offices in 5 countries, Bangladesh, China, India, Ethiopia and Vietnam, all staffed with local professionals.
Contact details: C-10, Second Floor
Gulmohar Park
New Dehli 110016
India
Phone: +91-11-6960518
Fax: +91-11-6567871
E-mail: general@orbisindia.org
Website: www.ukorbis.org/bins/index.asp
ORBIS Headquarters
520 8th Avenue, 11th Floor
New York
NY 10018
USA
Phone: 164 66745500
Fax: 164 66745599
E-mail: executive@ny.orbis.org
Organisation Pour La Prevention De La Cecite
The organisation’s goal is to promote control of blindness and short sightedness, the training for health officers in developing countries, who provide prevention, care and information to the common people.
To provide equipment for ophthalmic centres. Supports training of doctors, nurses and health officers for ophthalmology, provision of ophthalmic equipment for eye clinics in Third World Countries.
Contact details: Organisation Pour La Prevention
De La Cecite
58 Avenue Bosquet
75007 Paris
France
Perkins School for the Blind is committed to helping children and adults who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind, or with multiple disabilities reach their greatest possible independence.
Contact details: 175 North Beacon
Street
Watertown, MA 02472
USA
Phone: +617-924-3434
Fax: +617-926-2027
E-mail: info@perkins.org
Website: www.perkins.org
Braille and Talking Book Library 617-972-7240 (library@perkins.org)
Deafblind 617-972-7500 (deafblind@perkins.org)
Vision Rehabilitation Services/Low Vision Clinic 617-972-7296 (lowvision@perkins.org)
Volunteer Services 617-972-7224 (volunteers@perkins.org)
Reducing poverty in developing countries is central to Danish development cooperation priorities.
A number of crosscutting themes are built into DANIDA’s development assistance: women’s participation in development, the environment, promotion of democracy and observation of human rights.
contact details: Royal Danish Embassy
11, Aurangzeb Road
New Delhi 110011
Phone: (11)23010900, 23010002, 23010004, 23010722
Fax: (11) 23792019, 23792891
E-mail: delamb@um.dk
Website: www.ambnewdelhi.um.dk
Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)
Asiatisk Plads 2
DK 1448
København K
Denmark
Phone: 4533920000
Fax: 4532540533
E-mail: um@um.dk
Website: http://www.um.dk
A non-profit organisation incorporated in California,
USA, the Sankara Eye Foundation is involved in supporting community eye
care activities in India. It raises funds and creates awareness for control
of avoidable blindness in India.
Eye care organisations such as the Sankara Eye Society, runs the Sankara
Eye Hospital in Coimbatore. Sankara Eye Society (SES) is a partner of
Sankara Eye Foundation. SES runs many eye care programs for the needy
in India such as:
- The Sankara Eye Hospital , Coimbatore
- Sankara Eye Bank
- Bharat Vision
- Gift of Vision (Rural Outreach Program)
- Gift of Sight, Cambodia
- Rainbow
- National Institute of Community Opthalmology
Contact details: 3175 Arcola Ct
San Jose, CA 95148
E-mail: info@sankaraeye.com,sankarai@md3.vsnl.net.in
Website: http://www.giftofvision.org/
other address: Sankara Eye Centre,
Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust,
Sathy Road, Sivanadapuram,
Coimbatore 641035.
Tamilnadu, India.
Phone: +91-422-2666450 (8 lines)
Fax: +91-422-2666460
E-mail: sankarai@md3.vsnl.net.in
Sense International (India) is a registered trust in India and has access to the great deal of expertise in the deafblind field from the UK and internationally. The organisation works in partnership with local organisations, helping to establish an infrastructure that will ensure the sustainability of all services. Sense International (India) has two overall roles:
- To identify and support partner organisations that want to develop services for deafblind people. It itself is not a direct service provider. The programmes for deafblind children and adults are implemented by partner organisations.
- To offer a range of services and activities to address deafblindness throughout India and to support the partner organisations. This includes the circulation of information about deafblindness, the organisation of training activities, for professionals, deafblind people, their families and partners on management and fundraising, promotion of networking activities among teachers, families and deafblind people.
Contact details: Row House No. E-2
Tarun Nagar Part–II
Opp. Arihant Nagar Apartment
Gurukul Road,
Ahmedabad 380052
Phone: +91-79-27492185, 27434390
Fax: +91-79-27492185
E-mail: info@senseintindia.org
Website: http://www.sense.org.uk/international/
SHIA - the Swedish Organisations' of Disabled Persons International Aid Association - a non-governmental organisation with 26 members, comprising Swedish DPOs actively concerned with international development co-operation. The organisation was formed in 1981, during the United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons.
SHIA works towards strengthening the efforts of persons with disabilities to achieve equality and participation.
Activities are funded with grants from the member organisations and Sida (the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency).
contact details: SHIA (Solidarity. Human-rights.
Inclusion. Accessibility)
SHIA • Svenska Handikapporganisationers Internationella Biståndsförening
Liljeholmstorg 7A
11763 Stockholm
Besök: Liljeholmstorg 7A, 6tr
Phone: + 08-462 33 60
Fax: + 08-714 59 22
E-mail: shia@shia.se
Website: www.shia.se
Sight Savers International works alongside local organisations
and governments to teach basic eye care skills and hygiene to adults and
children.
The organization supports eye screening camps, operations, treatments,
education, surgical training, as well as rehabilitation programmes.
Contact details: Ms. Alice Crasto
Regional Director
Sight Savers International
A3, Shivdham,
Plot 62 New Link Road,
Malad (W), Mumbai
Maharashtra 400064
E-mail: generalinformation@sightsavers.org
Website: http://www.sightsavers.org.uk/
For the United Kingdom and Rest of the World
(excepting Ireland and US):
Sight Savers International
Grosvenor Hall
Bolnore Road
Haywards Heath
West Sussex, RH16 4BX
United Kingdom
Phone: 0044-1444-446600
Fax: 0044-1444-446688
Tokyo Helen Keller Association (THKA)
The organisation aims to improve the well being of blind in Asia by providing appropriate technologies in the field of education and rehabilitation.
The association carries out several welfare activities to assist the visually handicapped to help themselves.
Contact Details: Tokyo Helen Keller Association
(THKA)
C/O Mainichi Shinbunsha
Waseda Annex
3-14-4 Okubo
Sinjuku-ku
Tokyo 169
The Liliane Foundation, a Dutch NGO, whose work is based
on the UN Convention of the rights of the child, in particular article
23. The article states the right of handicapped children to special care,
education and training designed to help them to achieve greatest possible
self-reliance and to lead a full and active life in society.
The Foundation offers direct, small-scaled and person-centered help to
disabled children in developing countries.
In addition the Liliane Foundation offers assistance for vocational training and guidance; this often leads to income-raising projects. Whenever a disabled child is unable to grow independent because of his or her handicap, his / her family is guided to learn and become economically self-supporting.
contact details: The Liliane Foundation
C/o C.H.A.I, 157/6
Gunrock Enclave
Secunderabad 09
Andhra Pradesh
Phone: +91-40-27898755, 9849557323
E-mail: slf@pol.net.in, slfindia@pol.net.in
Other address: The Liliane Foundation
P.O. Box 75, 5250 AB
Vlijmen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-4108-19029
Fax: +31-4108-17354
The Foundation has been supporting the area of human needs – be it emergency food programs, job training, literacy programs, programs for the disabled, programs that provide emergency or transitional housing for the underprivileged.
Besides this, the Foundation funds organizations that
provide need-based financial aid to students seeking to attend secondary
and post-secondary schools.
The Foundation has funded a number of exchange programs over the years
to encourage the education of U.S. students abroad and students from foreign
countries in the U.S.
Medicine and healthcare are equally important areas to the Foundation. The Foundation's grants in these areas are far ranging, including capital grants to hospitals, significant research grants and grants to assist in the provision of healthcare to under-served communities in New York City and overseas.
contact details: The STARR Foundation
70 Pine Street
29th Floor, New York
NY 10270
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, promotes a high
degree of usability for people with disabilities, and, in coordination
with organizations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web
through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education
and outreach, and research and development.
The organization's Web site provides resources to aid in making a Web
site accessible, including Web site evaluation tools, curriculum for Web
content accessibility guidelines, and training and technical references.
The Web site also has information on various working groups that produce accessibility guidelines for Web sites, Web authoring tools, evaluation, education, and outreach.
contact details: W3C Web Accessibility
Initiative
MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G530
32 Vassar St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Phone: +1.617.253.2613
Fax: +1.617.258.5999
E-mail: wai-site-comments@w3.org
Website: http://www.w3.org/WAI
The Wadhwani Foundation funds not-for-profit efforts that inspire, educate and support new entrepreneurs, and create environments where they can succeed.
Besides its other programs, the Foundation has programs to empower disabled persons. The Wadhwani Grant Program (WGP) aims to help thousands of differently-abled people gain productive employment over the next 10 years, both directly, or indirectly through successful advocacy efforts.
The Wadhwani-Ashoka Fellowships (WAF) identifies and supports leading social entrepreneurs who are building non-profit organisations with innovative approaches to solving problems faced by the differently-abled.
Contact details: 2, Bina Apartments, Ground
Floor
Guru Gangeshwar Marg
6th Road, Khar (W)
Mumbai 400052
India
Phone: +91 22 26006158
E-mail: info@wadhwani-foundation.org
Website:http://www.wadhwani-foundation.org/
other address: Wadhwani Foundation
4015 Miranda Ave, 2nd Floor
Palo Alto
CA 94304
USA
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