For the Blind is a student-led Community Engagement team that works with the Bangkok School for the Blind, which provides schooling and support for children and youths with visual impairments. Our efforts within the past two years have led our team to be able to receive the Bangkok Patana School ‘Community Engagement Team of 2025’ award.
Established in 2024, our team has made monthly trips to tutor students, help with their schoolwork, record audiobooks for them to listen to, and engage in various hands-on activities. For the Blind mainly works to address educational inequality for the visually impaired as there is a lack of accessible educational resources to help visually impaired students understand complex learning concepts.
By using innovation and art to tackle this issue, our team has created several learning materials in the past such as tactile life cycle models, a Braille alphabet board, Venn diagrams and more. We also learn how to read and write in Braille so we can better communicate with and support the students. Aside from directly visiting the school and creating learning materials, For the Blind has raised funds by selling handcrafted accessories made by blind students, braille cookies and hosting interactive activities during school events.
Our achievements:
In the 2025/26 academic year, we were given the opportunity to host a workshop at the AIELOC conference to raise awareness for educators and teach braille to foster inclusivity in education. Additionally, we engaged in direct action by visiting the Bangkok School for the Blind to tutor visually impaired students, give out sugar cookies our team baked and record more audiobooks.
Furthermore, our projects that we produced this year include tactile Christmas cards written in Braille and tactile Moo-Deng models. Currently, we are working on creating a tactile map of Thailand with landmarks in the five regions.
Community Engagement Events
We have actively participated in events such as Fun Day, Social Inequality Week, and the Christmas Concert, where we raised awareness about visual impairment and engaged the wider school community through interactive and educational activities. During these events, we organized booths, games, and hands-on experiences that allowed others to better understand the challenges faced by visually impaired individuals. These activities not only helped educate others but also encouraged greater empathy and support within our school community.
Nextp Steps
Moving forward, we plan to continue raising funds and creating more learning resources for visually impaired students. This includes projects such as a tactile representation of the solar system and further developments of more interactive materials in Braille to make lessons easier to understand. We also hope to expand our activities and reach more students, so we can provide greater support and make a bigger impact on their education.
