BUSINESS may not be brisk, however, OKU Dobi Sdn Bhd at Mid Valley City in Kuala Lumpur has a fair share of regular customers.

Job Coaches will often prepare a pictorial album for Persons With Disability (PWD) as part of their work training programmes. They will also guide the disabled on which public transport to take and where to alight. These are among the tasks of a Job Coach programme which was launched in 2012 by the Social Welfare Department for PWD.

Kenny Lee Man Njun, 21, who is pursuing a diploma in Mass Communication, is also an author of a motivational book and will start working from home soon.

A group of parents and two teachers from the Special Education Class in Langkawi had a meeting and decided to form a non-governmental organisation called Networking Action For Disabled Youths (Nady). Nady’s main objective is to empower youths with special needs, aged 17 years and above, by unleashing their hidden talent in making handicrafts and help them market the products.

Diagnosed with severe visual impairment when he was 11 years old, Pung Kay Suan’s world seemed to have darkened ahead of him. The 27-year-old man, however, did not let the handicap stop him from pursuing his dreams and leading a normal life. With hard work and support from his parents, Pung managed to complete his Master in Business Administration programme at the Sarawak campus of the Swinburne University of Technology here.

Diserang strok sejak tujuh tahun lalu tidak menghalang seorang bekas guru, Zakaria Adam, 70, untuk meneruskan minat mendalam terhadap lukisan malah menjadikan sebagai terapi bagi memulihkan pergerakannya. Lebih menarik, dia yang berasal dari daerah ini memilih untuk melukis pokok periuk kera atau nama saintifiknya, Nepenthes spp. untuk berkarya di atas kertas atau kanvas.

As he stands in front of his students and dictates a lesson, the fact that he suffers from complete blindness barely crosses their mind. For them, he is just another teacher. In fact, he is a favourite. Suresh Patted, a 28-year-old visually impaired man, was appointed as lecturer at a government degree college in Terdal town of Bagalkot district a month ago.

Malaysian athletes and para athletes set aside their competitive streaks to showcase their sartorial prowess for charity. Twenty sportsmen and sportswomen participated in the Athletes For Charity fashion show, organised by White Elephant – Retail for Charity at the JW Marriott Hotel Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

Blind since birth, virtuoso Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii puts his global success down to a wide range of experiences outside music — and listening to how the conductor breathes.

Kekurangan keupayaan fizikal yang dialami sejak kecil tidak menghalang seorang pemuda berusia 31 tahun untuk meneruskan minatnya dalam bidang jahitan. Mohamad Dhiaulddin Mohd. Sabri berkata, dia mengalami penyakit gangguan saraf ketika berusia enam bulan sehingga mengakibatkannya mengalami kesukaran untuk bergerak dengan normal.