I am G. Vamshi, a visually challenged person from Tirupati, A.P. I am writing this letter to express my wholehearted gratitude towards the great organization, Enable India. I didn’t know about computers till my 25th year. Even though I started to learn basic applications like word and excel, I lacked the knowledge of internet as it required knowledge of Jaws to use internet.
In 2007, I first visited Enable India and had the pleasure of meeting people like you and Vidhya madam. It was then that Vidhya madam evaluated my computer skills and decided that I was very poor in using Jaws, though I am still not good at using Jaws. But she gave me some CDs for learning internet which was the key step in my life. With the help of those, I learnt internet, E-mail, Google search, etc.
With that knowledge, I came to know about lists like Access India through Google search and have been an active member of that list for the past one year. I gained a lot of knowledge as a result of my association in it. It was great to know about people like Rajesh, Harish, Kanchan, Subramani, Srinivasu — and had been fortunate enough to stay in touch with them.
And the more important thing I wanted to tell you was that, with all the knowledge I gained through the above mentioned process, I managed to get a job as an assistant in State Bank of India. It couldn’t have happened without the start Enable India gave me in my life.
So, for my satisfaction, I am donating half of my first month’s salary to our organization and the other half to a mentally retarded rehabiliation center in Tirupati. Now that I got a permanent source of income, I promise to contribute more frequently in whatever little manner I can to Enable India. I wish Enable India brings light in many more lives of visually challenged community.
Though I haven’t got relevant words to express my gratitude, I think I communicated what I wanted to. I swear, I am much more grateful than what you have read in this letter.
Enable India is happy and proud to be associated with Mr Vamshi’s achievements, and we thank him for allowing us to reproduce his letter here, so that it can serve as inspiration to many other candidates. All the best, Mr. Vamshi!
March 23, 2009 at 9:28 am |
Vamshi,
Appreciate your generosity to support the organization that helped you to enhance your skills. I’m sure more alumi of Enable India will take Vamshi as inspiration and support Enable India in whatever way they could not necessirly by donating money but there would be many ways to do so like how some of them help candidates in resume writing, preparing interviews etc.
Enable India, I’m sure, with due support of your alumni, EI will oneday become a largest International organization serving people with disabilities.