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Please read our latest donor appeal that we distributed in June 2011 to 19,000 prospective donors nationwide – Hennie’s story really is fascinating!

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27 Junie tot 1 Julie is doofblinde week. Hierdie week is ingestel ter herdenking van Hellen Keller se verjaarsdag op 27 Junie.

Hennie en Carel is albei doof en blind tog is hulle blymoedig en vreugdevol.

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The Institute for the Blind was proud to take part in the Woesskoon initiative to help keep Worcester clean!

The Golf day as hosted by, The Institute for the Blind; Pioneer Printers and Pioneer School is a much sought after event on the Worcester Calendar, it took place in the  form of a 4-ball Golf tournament.  The Corporate Sector…

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It was with great excitement that the Information Centre was opened on the 18th of March 2011. This centre is set to change the face of tourism in the Western Cape as Mr Gilfillan, the CEO of Cape Town Routes…

Join our community online

We’re very proud to bring you our new website, which we hope you will enjoy. We’ve restructured our information and we’re adding more and more useful content for people affected by blindness and visual impairment and…

10 year old’s painting becomes new wine label

A painting by Anandi Potgieter, a 10 year-old partially sighted pupil from the Pioneer School, is now to be seen as a wine label on a Cabernet 2008 red wine bottle! The…

Dinner in the Dark a success

On Saturday, 12 February 2011, the Institute for the Blind, in collaboration with the Pioneer School for the Visually Impaired, arranged a unique dinner in the dark where guests were given the opportunity to…

A group of 13 visually impaired adults had the privilege of embarking on an adventurous tour of the Tsitsikama during the recent September holidays.