| I really think everyone should get this done. Everyone. |
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Jawed Habib
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| "My small venture is in a developing industry and it takes quite some time to establish trust and rapport with prospective customers. In my business meetings, just handing out these cards gets people warmed up and I can feel a goodwill established. They are excellent ice-breakers. I had got my cards brailled only to ensure that I don't exclude anyone from knowing about my business. Now I find this additional benefit of establishing a human bond with the card receivers instantly, irrespective of their visual abilities! Thank you very much and keep the great work going!" |
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Venkat Kandaswamy, Founder
www.apartmentadda.com
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| Just before and after giving the card, there is a mental high. Getting Braille done on my cards has raised my self esteem. |
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Siddhartha Barthakur, Ashoka
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| There is instant recognition and importance to an otherwise simple card as it communicates your human side. |
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Maithreyi Venkatraman - Entrepreneur,
Knowledge Advisor, and Esha’s first customer. She still gets
her cards Braille enabled as a rule.
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| Braille Enabled cards started out for us because we really thought it was a superb idea. Over this period, the experience with Esha and with Braille cards has been consistently strengthened by the positive experience we have had - with both. We sincerely hope that more and more corporates in India are able to make use of this service because inclusive communication and inclusive spaces, really, should be elementary to any business. |
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Amit Gopal, Vice President,
India Life
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| I have been enamored by how Braille looks on cards and now even by Chandru, who brailled my cards. When I met Chandru for the first time, he conducted himself with such ease that it was difficult to imagine he couldn?t see. His confidence and cheerfulness inspired me. And of course, his talent of seeing with hands. He felt my card for a moment and instantly pinpointed just the right spot where my name should appear in Braille. Needless to say, my cards look fantastic. |
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Rakesh Ram S, Senior Software
Engineer, LSI Corporation
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| Being access consultants, the decision to get our visiting
cards Braille enabled was natural; however the challenge was to make
sure that the card retains its visual appeal while being embossed
with Braille, a constraint we felt with most Braille printers. After
frantically looking for options on the internet, I came upon the link
to “Esha – the Braille place”and found out about the
Braille printing service it had to offer. On contacting Nidhi at Esha,
I was directed to Chandrashekhar or Chandru as he is fondly called.
Chandru who is visually impaired, and an expert with Braille offered
to print my visiting cards and since I was traveling to Bangalore
(where he lives) I decided to meet him before I gave him a small quantity
of 600 to start with. Besides being the most humble person, I found
him to be a true professional when it came to his job. He not only
made all the effort to visit me and understand how I really wanted
them to be printed, but also showed me some samples that made me more
confident about his work. He effortlessly printed each one of them
by hand using a Braille typewriter and delivered them before the promised
time, and it may sound clichéd but the cards came out classier
than ever.
The story so far is that I have got all visiting cards for my organization printed in Braille, and every time I pass on my card to someone it not only acts as an ice breaker, but also helps me spread a little awareness about how this small effort is making a huge difference to the lives of persons with visual impairment. My visiting cards have been able to convince a lot of people on the importance of Braille and more importantly helped me to connect better with a lot of people including visually impaired persons, who appreciate the visiting card that I hand them now, instead of the one that I used to carry earlier. The way I see it, my cards were just a piece of silent stationery, but now after getting Braille on them, they do the talking. |
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Sachin Verma , Access Ability
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| The whole process from initial contact to receiving the cards was efficient. I feel very nice using such cards braille enabling is admirable work.You are doing a great job but you already know that! |
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Kapil Marwaha, Entrepreneur
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| Esha Foundation conducted a sensitization program for the CSR team in DBOI using the Theatre technique. This involved the team acting out situations in which one of them was blind. The experience of going through an entire day's routine by being blind was quite literally eye-opening (pun intended). We met Chandrasekhar, the coordinator for the Bangalore chapter of Esha. We were quite amazed to hear that he is an accomplished sportsman in his field and would be the trainer for these sensitization sessions in the future. He was a volunteer in organizing the Paralympics in Banglaore. He 'Braille-enabled' some of our visiting cards, thus helping us take our first steps in making our worlds a bit more inclusive. At the end of the session, we came away appreciating the limitations of a visually challenged person in dealing with the challenges of every day living in a world created for people with sight. |
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Manoj Warrier - Vice President, Transformations, DBOI Global Services, Deutsche Bank Group
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