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Telenor arranged a disability awareness training and Iftar party for bloggers on Friday September 4, 2009. This meeting was a step to promote Telenor Khuddar Pakistan Program with an aim to educate Pakistani bloggers about major difficulties faced by disabled persons and how those difficulties can be solved to take maximum benefit from disabled people of our society.
The meeting started with a welcome note from Sohaib Mustafa (External Cooperate Communications, Telenor Pakistan). Following him, the director Corporate Communication and Responsibility, Mr. Syed Hasnat Masood presented some basic reasons that cause the difficulties faced by disabled persons. He highlighted the fact that the absence of disabled people around us is among the biggest barriers. After Hasnat, president of STEP (Special Talent Exchange Program) Atif Sheikh continued the training session. Atif explained disability from the perspective of a disabled person. He also highlighted the jargon and terminologies used by media for disabled persons, the difficulties they face in every day life and mentioned the ways for overcoming those difficulties.
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In the last part of the meeting, Mohammad Shabbir Awan (a visually impaired person) explained usage of assistive devices which could be very helpful for disabled persons. Assistive devices like JAWs and Dolphin Pen were explained in detail. In the end, Areej Aurangzeb Khan (Assistant Manager, External Corporate Communication, Telenor Pakistan) demonstrated different ways of communicating with speaking impaired persons.
Meeting came to an end after Iftaar. The training session was quiet informative and I think we have to do much more effort to make disabled people a real part of our society.
