Sunflower Talking Book Library for the Blind Has a New Director

On July 25, the Board of Directors of Huong Duong Talking Book Library had a friendly meeting with a number of reporters at the library headquarters (No. 18B, Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City) to inform about the library's personnel and upcoming activities. Accordingly, the new director of Huong Duong Talking Book Library is Mr. Tran Anh Khoi, a person who has been working in the field of education and training in Ho Chi Minh City for many years.

Mr. Tran Anh Khoi (left) and Mr. Duong Thanh Truyen, members of the Management Board of the Talking Book Fund for the Blind

Huong Duong Talking Book Library was established in 1998, through many stages, and is now building a new mission of "Understanding the blind - Serving the blind". From a unit specializing in making talking books for the blind, up to now, Huong Duong Talking Book Library (under the Talking Book Fund for the Blind) has contributed to this charity work for 27 years, with about 5,000 talking book titles.

Computer Certification Exam Preparation Class for Visually Impaired Students at Huong Duong Talking Book Library

In addition, the library has also implemented two major scholarship programs: the Anh Sen Scholarship for visually impaired students (since 2001, more than 4,500 scholarships have been awarded with a value of more than 7.4 billion VND) and the Huong Duong Scholarship for visually impaired students (since 2000, more than 1,000 scholarships have been awarded with a value of more than 4.7 billion VND).

In addition, the library has also carried out two meaningful training activities, including: Computer Certification Exam Preparation Class for Visually Impaired Students, Smartphone Usage Class for Visually Impaired People.

Not only that, the Library also has useful activities such as organizing Chess Tournaments for the blind, giving walking sticks, examining and giving medicine to the blind, organizing blind students to go to the beach, organizing the music night "Light from the heart" with performances by young blind people and famous singers and artists.

To maintain the quality of audiobook production, the library has recently organized training sessions for volunteer readers, with lecturers being famous “voices” such as Ms. Khai Hoan, Ms. Kim Phuong, and Mr. Le Hung. This July, the library will organize small but meaningful “homegrown” activities, such as the “Singing with the blind” music night (evening of July 26) or the “Taking portraits of the blind” project (morning of July 31) right at the library headquarters.

Technician working at the studio of Huong Duong Talking Book Library

“The music night was conceived and organized in a very short time, but we were fortunate to have the support of many volunteers. With the desire to make this activity a regular event, we look forward to receiving support from sponsors, so that the program will become increasingly better in quality, more widespread, and thereby bring a stable source of funding for making audiobooks,” said Mr. Tran Anh Khoi, Director of Huong Duong Audiobook Library.

Not stopping there, from now until the end of the year, the library will have many new changes. According to the plan, in August, Huong Duong Library will be established with many free cultural activities for the disadvantaged, such as the program "Reading books for blind children". The library also plans to deploy an application (app) on mobile devices to make it easier for blind people to listen to audiobooks.

QUYNH YEN

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/thu-vien-sach-noi-huong-duong-danh-cho-nguoi-mu-co-giam-doc-moi-post805422.html