She # the Inspirer
SHE THE INSPIRER: Tiffany Brar
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Tiffany Brar is the only daughter of General T. P. S. Brar and Leslie Brar. Tiffany was born in Chennai, India, where her father was posted, and grew up in Punjab.
Tiffany Brar suffered Terry Syndrome and became blind six months after her birth. Due to her father's occupation Brar travelled widely. Because she was blind, verbal communication was important and she became multilingual.
During her childhood, Brar learnt to fluently speak five Indian languages. She started her education in Great Britain while her father was posted there. When her family returned to India, Brar studied in schools for the blind, in integrated schools and in military schools. After completing her primary education in Kerala, her father was transferred to Darjeeling, where Tiffany studied at the Mary Scott Home for the blind.
At her schools, Brar experienced segregation and isolation by other pupils, and was excluded from events. She reached first position in the CBSE board exam in 12th grade in a school alongside sighted counterparts.
After completing school in 2006, Brar joined for the bachelor's degree programme in English literature at Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram, affiliated to the University of Kerala. After graduating in 2009, Brar started working for Braille Without Borders as a telephone operator. She travelled to various organizations where she came across many underprivileged blind people who were confined to their homes and lacked proper training. During one trip, she found roads are slippery or covered with stones, making them unsuitable for blind people, and that in some parts of India, blind people are confined to their homes by unsupportive societies. This encouraged her to find the Jyothirgamaya Foundation to support the education of blind and partially sighted children. In Kerela, visually impaired children are trained in Malayalam, the regional language, through text-recognition software but do not attend special schools and are taught neither Braille nor English. Brar campaigns though Jyothirgamaya to change the system
After working for two years, Brar pursued her B.Ed. in special education (visual impairment) from Sree Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University in Coimbatore.[4] In July 2012, she began running the Jyothirgamaya (meaning "leading to light “mobile school for the blind. The idea for the organization came from a retired police officer from Tamil Nadu, N. Krishnaswamy, to help children constrained by poverty, disability, or distance
In 2018, the Government of India praised Brar for her efforts during flooding in Wayanad, where she collected materials for relief camps.
By Hajra mohammed Gayas
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