World Braille Day: Education for the blind population of the world

World Braille Day is celebrated every year on January 4th 2018 to commemorate the contribution of Louis Braille for blind people of the world. He invented a reading and writing system which helped blind people in learning and reading.

The day marks the importance of teaching and providing equal opportunity to blind people and highlights the problems faced by them.

The Braille system is a representation of letters and symbols within a grid in rows. The inventor, Louis Braille created the system after he went blind at the age of five due to an accident.

He developed the system when he was 15 years old and it was inspired by a military system of ‘Night writing’ which assisted soldiers in communicating in the dark without sound and light.

The system has been very helpful in giving an opportunity to blind people to get education alongside their peers and be able to read at their whims and fancies.