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The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is organizing an Aids and Appliance Distribution camp for persons with disabilities in the Tanzanian capital Dar-Es-Salam during the President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s visit to Tanzania. Persons with disabilities would be screened on the spot at the camp for determining suitability of aids and appliances, which would be distributed to them for their rehabilitation. These include wheel chairs, tricycles, calipers, prosthetics, other orthotics appliances, mobility aids like crutches and calibrated walking sticks. Aids and appliances would also be provided to persons suffering with visual and hearing handicaps. These aids and appliances have been manufactured by the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) working under the aegis of Social Justice & Empowerment Ministry.
An exhibition of products and tools available with ALIMCO is also being held at the one-day camp on September 14, 2004. Other organisations participating in the camp are National Institute for Rehabilitation, Training & Research (NIRTAR) and National Institute for Visually Handicapped (NIVH).
Ten computers with talking software, braille text books for English learning from class II to Class X and miscellaneous leisure books on audio tapes are being gifted to the UHURU School for the disabled where the camp is being held. The computers and talking software etc. are being gifted at the desire of the President.
The President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is leaving New Delhi on an eight-day tour of Tanzania and South Africa on September 11, 2004. He is accompanied by the Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Smt. Meira Kumar and a high level delegation of MPs and officials.
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