Comments on: White Cane Safety Day Celebration /2009/07/16/white-cane-safety-day/ Empowering Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:53:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: RAHILA hANIF /2009/07/16/white-cane-safety-day/#comment-6226 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:53:09 +0000 http://www.ncda.gov.ph/?p=213#comment-6226 its excellent to have such an opportunity for blind to express their existance.

]]> By: RAHILA hANIF /2009/07/16/white-cane-safety-day/#comment-6229 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:53:09 +0000 http://www.ncda.gov.ph/?p=213#comment-6229 its excellent to have such an opportunity for blind to express their existance.

]]> By: east nfvh /2009/07/16/white-cane-safety-day/#comment-6225 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:02:49 +0000 http://www.ncda.gov.ph/?p=213#comment-6225 WHITE STICK AS SYMBOL OF BLINDNESS – HISTORY
(From RNIB reference library information file)

An Englishman and a Frenchwoman both claim to have originated the idea.

1921 – James Biggs of Bristol (as he claims in New Beacon article, Dec. 1937, pp. 320/321) thought of idea of painting his stick white — wrote to various institutions, Chief Constables, newspapers, magazines, etc…

1930 – First reference in New Beacon (December, p. 265) to white stick – “In Paris, the Prefect of Police is supporting the idea that blind pedestrians shall carry white sticks”

1931 – February – Mlle Guilly d’Herbemont, with the assistance of one of the editors of l’Echo de Paris launched national white stick movement in France.

1931 – Taken up by British Press – West Ham Rotary Club’s offer to supply white sticks to blind people in the area accepted – in May, the BBC broadcast the suggestion that all blind persons should be provided with a white stick, which should be nationally recognised by the public

1932 – National Institute for the Blind started stocking and selling white sticks

WHITE CANE SAFETY DAY

By provision of P.L. 88-628, 88th Congress, 2d Session, October 15 to be proclaimed each year by the President of the United States as White Cane Safety Day. First such proclamation issued by Lyndon B. Johnson on October 6, 1964. (Ref.: NOB, Dec. 1964, 58 (10), 332.)

]]> By: Jose Antonio M. Maraguinot /2009/07/16/white-cane-safety-day/#comment-6224 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:25:44 +0000 http://www.ncda.gov.ph/?p=213#comment-6224 The white cane is a simple, meek and humble tool which serve a great role to the mobility of the Visually Impaired. It symbolizes freedom and independence from total dependency to the help and assistance of others. It allows the blind live a normal life in spite of disability by somehow diminishing the limitation through safe, confident and free movement alone.
However, acquiring a folding white cane is not that affordable to Visually Impaired Persons who are mostly indigent and are not blessed financially. The government therefore, through its agencies, applying the principle of parents patrae has a lot to do to provide white cane to poor VIPs.

]]> By: Jose Antonio M. Maraguinot /2009/07/16/white-cane-safety-day/#comment-6227 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:25:44 +0000 http://www.ncda.gov.ph/?p=213#comment-6227 The white cane is a simple, meek and humble tool which serve a great role to the mobility of the Visually Impaired. It symbolizes freedom and independence from total dependency to the help and assistance of others. It allows the blind live a normal life in spite of disability by somehow diminishing the limitation through safe, confident and free movement alone.
However, acquiring a folding white cane is not that affordable to Visually Impaired Persons who are mostly indigent and are not blessed financially. The government therefore, through its agencies, applying the principle of parents patrae has a lot to do to provide white cane to poor VIPs.

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