Once Deemed Useless by Society, Now on the Path to Success

Sahil Singh, a 22-year-old from Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, was born blind into a farming family. As the eldest of four siblings, he grew up in a community where no one had ever encountered a blind person before. His family, unaware of available resources, kept him at home, depriving him of education. Mainstream schools refused to admit him, and for 17 years, he lived in isolation, dismissed as “useless” by society.

A chance encounter with an Eyeway radio promo changed his life. Hesitant but determined, Sahil contacted an Eyeway counsellor, who patiently guided him, building a connection with him despite his stammering difficulties. Understanding that Sahil was comfortable with Punjabi, the counsellor advised him to complete his 10th and 12th through the Punjab Board and arranged for his stay at a blind hostel in Amritsar.

Sahil, who had always been passionate about studying, used recorded study materials to complete his exams successfully. The counsellor further motivated him to prepare for competitive government exams, setting him on the path to a secure future.

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About us & Our founder

In 1989, our CEO, George Abraham, visited a school for the blind for the first time in New Delhi. What he witnessed there shook him to the core. The services were poor, the facilities sub-standard, and the curriculum watered down. He asked some of the teachers about the future of those children. The reply was prompt and delivered in a monotone, as if it were a pre-conditioned response: “Some of them make it to the university, many of them fall by the wayside.” It was then that George realized his privilege, born into a family that recognized his potential and invested in his education and skills. This realization ignited his passion to advocate for visually impaired individuals.

Cricket for the blind was his first initiative. He organized the first national tournament in 1990, established the World Blind Cricket Council in 1996 and conceived the first World Cup at New Delhi in 1998. With the support from British Airways, in 1998, he also conducted a series of over 60 two-day workshops with around 2000 young blind boys and girls across India. Travelling across the country for cricket and the workshops, George interacted with blind people and their families, educationists, corporate executives, bureaucrats, politicians, medical professionals and media persons and through these interactions, three facts emerged clearly,

The number of blind and visually impaired people in the country was The Census puts it at 5.4 million while the WHO count is over 60 million.
Most people knew very little about living life with blindness and viewed it with skepticism and prejudice. They saw blind people as individuals who needed help and had to be provided
On the other hand, blind people who received quality education and exposure were leading fulfilling lives in the mainstream of the

George realized that ‘Blindness was not the real problem but the challenge actually was the mindset of people towards visual impairment’. Given this understanding, George set up Score Foundation in 2002 and launched Project in 2004 as a single- stop knowledge resource for the blind and visually impaired people of India.

Score Foundations envisions a future where people with visual impairment are regarded as full fledged members of family, community and society. Our motto reads :

Space for all

Contribution for all

Opportunity for all

Recognition for all

Equality for all

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Vision Impairment should not be considered limiting. Lives are built on dreams, ambitions, discipline, will power and hard work. They definitely are not built on one’s ability to see or not see.

Given proper training, guidance and opportunity, blindness can be merely reduced to a physical condition.

Score Foundation is a registered non-profit trust set up to work with Persons with Blindness and Vision Impairment. Over twenty percent of the world’s visually impaired population resides in India. Looked upon with pity and viewed as objects of charity, they often find themselves treated unfairly by family, society and the government. They are not given the same opportunities as their sighted counterparts. Their limited access to information prevents them from leading independent and productive lives.

Score Foundation endeavors to change people’s mindset towards blindness and visual impairment, and in the process, initiate a conversation on how to lead a life with blindness. Score Foundation believes that blindness is not the real problem; rather, it is the mindset. Individuals who are blind are potentially part of the country’s human resource and should be invested in. Our dream is to be able to reach every blind and visually impaired person in the country with knowledge and content that will inform, inspire and empower them to realise their potential.

Score Foundation through Project Eyeway disseminates information, connects people who need help with resources, advocates when people are discriminated against, and actively engages with sighted stakeholders through sensitization sessions.