RN Documentary: The World At Your Fingertips
Series: RN Documentaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:29:30
Helen Keller said that blindness separates a person from objects and deafness separates that person from people. Without support, encouragement and education the world of a deafblind person can be an isolated one of darkness and silence.
In the documentary “The World At Your Fingertips”, we visit India where more than half a million people are deafblind. But with the help of SENSE International and the Helen Keller Institute in Mumbai many deafblind children and young adults are reaching out to the world around them, widening their horizons and fulfilling their potential.
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Helen Keller said that blindness separates a person from objects and deafness separates that person from people. Without support, encouragement and education the world of a deafblind person can be an isolated one of darkness and silence. In the documentary “The World At Your Fingertips”, we visit India where more than half a million people are deafblind. But with the help of SENSE International and the Helen Keller Institute in Mumbai many deafblind children and young adults are reaching out to the world around them, widening their horizons and fulfilling their potential.
Transcript
“ I don’t need to look to see..
I don’t need to hear to listen..”
GINGER: Radio Netherlands presents…The World At Your Fingertips…
Teaser 1- Akhil:
Blindness separates a person from objects and deafness separates that person from people, so you can understand if somebody is unable to see and unable to hear properly what the situation would be..
Quotation from Helen Keller:
“We walked down the path to the well-house. Someone was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water…I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul..set it free. There were still barriers it is true, but barr...
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Composer: Arvo Part
CD Title: Alina
Carrier: ECM Records
CD Number : ECM New Series 1591
Track used: Track No. 1 - Spiegel im Spiegel
Duration: 5 minutes
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