Wednesday, February 10, 2010

ICT Centre for The Blind (Access@SSBlind), Kuching


Broadband training center-ACCESS@SSBlind was launched by CIMB Foundation, through CIMB Community Link; Yayasan Salam Malaysia and the Sarawak Society for the Blind (SSB) on 2nd October 2009. The launch was officiated by YB Dato’ Sri William Mawan Ikom, Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation, Sarawak, witnessed by Dato’ Dr. Hsiung Kwo Yuen, President of SSB; Ali Adai, Regional Director for East Malaysia, CIMB Bank and Md Ghani Ibrahim, Chief Operating Officer of Yayasan Salam Malaysia.

This centre provided with 10 units of computer completed with JAWS-Job Access With Speech software, scanner, printer and embrosser. The objective of the centre is to bring computer literacy classes and internet access to the visually impaired and blind community in Kuching.








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