Braille Production
Resources for the Blind, Inc. publishes Braille bibles, magazines, and textbooks. Through the Philippine Braille Technology Center - RBI’s Braille making arm, the organization produces more than one million pages of Braille to supply the reading and learning material needs of our visually impaired brothers and sisters.
For many years now, Braille bibles have been available in the major dialects in the Philippines to be more accessible and understable to the locals. Braille magazines entitled, “Insight Magazine” (for blind adults) and “Double Yum” (for children) are being published by RBI six times a year and bi-weekly, respectively.
This is RBI’s way in alleviating the hindrance of being blind to learning and education.
Other Special Services
Computer Technology
Similar to sighted people, our visually impaired brothers and sisters can also use computers for work, school, and their leisure time. Resources for the Blind, Inc. has a software program that can be installed in any computer. This program allows the computer to speak whatever is written or shown in the screen.
Technology has opened up a lot of opportunities that caters even to the disabled. In order for this to be more accessible to students, RBI also provides Computer Resource Centers for Blind Students in different schools, fully equipped with the software program. So far, there are twelve centers that are fully functioning.
Low Vision services
Many of our visually impaired brothers and sisters have still usable vision and instead of teaching them Braille, they can still normally see and read with the assistance of some magnifiers and other equipment.
RBI conducts eye screening to low vision patients and provides the right equipment for them to be able to see. Through these efforts, our brothers and sisters with low vision would not need to learn Braille anymore as they would be able to use their own vision.