4 January
World Braille Day
World Braille Day is celebrated every year on the birthday of Louis Braille, the inventor of braille methods that people with vision impairments can read and write. World Braille Day commemorates that unforgettable contribution of Louis Braille with gratitude. Because the discovery of the Braille system brought about a revolutionary change in the lives of the visually impaired. The process of giving equal rights to the visually impaired along with other people in the society seems to have started since then. It is worth mentioning that Louis Braille, who was born in France in 1809, lost both eyes when he crashed into his father’s factory when he was just three years old. But Braille, who possessed extraordinary mental toughness, discovered at the age of just twenty, a special way for visually impaired people to read and write. It is a matter of regret that by the time Braille died in 1852 at the age of 43, the outside world did not know about his breakthrough discovery. In 1868, an English physician named Dr. Ameitz came to know of this and spread the story of Braille’s extraordinary discoveries all over the world. Later millions of books around the world were produced using braille methods. Specially designed porous metal can be written using this method with the help of metal plates or metal pens on paper. During louis braille’s death centenary in 1952, the French government lifted his body from the grave and buried it with national dignity.