Breaking Barriers: Visually impaired redefine radio at 91.2 NIVH Hello Doon group station
By PTI
DEHRADUN: Confident that he has the present of the gab, 25-year-old Deepu says he’s blind however his voice could make individuals chuckle and cry.
He is amongst a bunch of visually-impaired children being educated at a group radio station right here to grow to be radio jockeys.
An initiative of the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH), the 91.2 NIVH Hello Doon group radio can be offering expertise to those children in producing and internet hosting their very own reveals, thus opening up new employment avenues and fostering self-sufficiency.
The coaching programme is being carried out by the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD).
Deepu says, “I have a lot of interest in this. A radio jockey’s work is not just playing songs or updating people, they make people cry and laugh. This is what I want to do. I am blind, I laugh and I want to make my audience laugh too.”
The trainees have hosted a wide range of reveals, starting from elevating consciousness about social points to instructional and leisure programmes.
Pappu (23), one other trainee, expressed his gratitude for the chance.
“I came and recorded the best stories and tried to develop my working abilities with the opportunity provided,” he mentioned.
The true essence of the radio station lay not solely within the empowerment of those children however of their journey in the direction of self-sufficiency and confidence.
“By opening up new employment avenues, the station aimed to make the visually impaired self-reliant and break the barriers of perception and opportunity,” mentioned Chetna Gola, the programme’s producer.
She clarified that the programme doesn’t provide a level or diploma however is extra of a platform for the visually impaired to study radio and discover it as a profession.
“Those people who were not being heard by anyone, today, when they hear their own voice or a song sung by them or when we use a script which they have written and, after editing, they hear the final product, then they have an unseen happiness on their face,” she mentioned.
NIEPVD Director Manish Verma mentioned the visually-impaired trainees at 91.2 NIVH Hello Doon craft their reveals with dedication and keenness, writing their very own scripts and producing their very own reveals on varied topics.
They additionally produce some leisure reveals.
DEHRADUN: Confident that he has the present of the gab, 25-year-old Deepu says he’s blind however his voice could make individuals chuckle and cry.
He is amongst a bunch of visually-impaired children being educated at a group radio station right here to grow to be radio jockeys.
An initiative of the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH), the 91.2 NIVH Hello Doon group radio can be offering expertise to those children in producing and internet hosting their very own reveals, thus opening up new employment avenues and fostering self-sufficiency.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The coaching programme is being carried out by the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD).
Deepu says, “I have a lot of interest in this. A radio jockey’s work is not just playing songs or updating people, they make people cry and laugh. This is what I want to do. I am blind, I laugh and I want to make my audience laugh too.”
The trainees have hosted a wide range of reveals, starting from elevating consciousness about social points to instructional and leisure programmes.
Pappu (23), one other trainee, expressed his gratitude for the chance.
“I came and recorded the best stories and tried to develop my working abilities with the opportunity provided,” he mentioned.
The true essence of the radio station lay not solely within the empowerment of those children however of their journey in the direction of self-sufficiency and confidence.
“By opening up new employment avenues, the station aimed to make the visually impaired self-reliant and break the barriers of perception and opportunity,” mentioned Chetna Gola, the programme’s producer.
She clarified that the programme doesn’t provide a level or diploma however is extra of a platform for the visually impaired to study radio and discover it as a profession.
“Those people who were not being heard by anyone, today, when they hear their own voice or a song sung by them or when we use a script which they have written and, after editing, they hear the final product, then they have an unseen happiness on their face,” she mentioned.
NIEPVD Director Manish Verma mentioned the visually-impaired trainees at 91.2 NIVH Hello Doon craft their reveals with dedication and keenness, writing their very own scripts and producing their very own reveals on varied topics.
They additionally produce some leisure reveals.
