Remisee

Description

About

Funding beneficiary

Malika Vassilova Student at the School of Natural, Social and Human Sciences, NU

Target group

– 8,300 blind and visually impaired children aged 6 to 18
– 5,900 deaf and hard of hearing children aged 6 to 18
– 15,000 children from rural schools

Project budget

999 997 tenge

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Project purpose

To create opportunities for visually impaired people to learn science through posters created with a unique tactile effect and in Braille. Also, we aim to increase the volume and quality of scientific information in the field of biological sciences in Kazakh language.

Project description

Malika Vassilova, a student from the NU School of Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, presented the Remisee project. The main aim of which is to create opportunities for visually impaired people to learn science through posters created with a unique tactile effect and in Braille. The project also intends to increase the amount and quality of scientific information in the field of biological sciences in Kazakh language.

The target group is 8,300 blind and visually impaired children aged 6 to 18, 5,900 deaf and hard of hearing children aged 6 to 18 and 15,000 children from rural schools. Through the project, people with various hearing and visual impairments will gain access to the study of scientific literature in the Kazakh language.

The project plans to print 250 posters for special schools and 100 regular posters for rural schools, reaching 28 schools for children with hearing and visual impairments and 30 rural schools.
A website will be set up to publish the video and audio of the lecture and the posters created by the project team. The project will produce a set of tactile cards with basic biology definitions.
There will also be an open course in Braille at Nazarbayev University in conjunction with the library for the visually impaired.