Rakum School for the Blind

Aim To enable visually impaired children to enhance their inner strengths and encourages them to become independent.

Constituency Served

visually impaired children, 7 years and above


Details of Work

Rakum runs a free residential school for 25 visually impaired children. It offers educational facilities and helps with college enrolment. Children learn Braille, mobility skills, art and music. It also offers health care, counselling, job placement, and vocational training in flower and basket making. It is a part of the Temple of Fightin-No-Arts (TOFNA), which gives free martial arts training to children, including disabled children, through 26 branches across the country.

Fact File

Rakum School for the Blind

    Status

  • Trust

    • Category

  • Disability

    • Sub Category

  • Visual Disability

    • Level of Work of the Organization

  • Local, State

    • Establishment

  • 1998

    • Focus

  • visual disability, free residential school, counselling

    • Help Welcome

  • volunteers, books, toys, medicines, donations, love, blankets, sheets, towels, provisions, kitchen utensils, toiletries
Contact Information

Acharya Shri Rakum , Chairman , Mon-Sat 8.00-8.00
421, Krishna Temple Road, Indiranagar I Stage Bangalore- 560038.
Ph : 25215253, 25215705 ,Email : rakumrakum@yahoo.com , Website :http://www.rakumschool.com