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As a part of the International Day of Blind (“The White Cane Day”) the «Open Ukraine» Foundation handed over to regional administrations of the Ukrainian Society of Blind the collections of audio-books of Ukrainian writers. Such charity event, of course, couldn’t solve all urgent problems of blind people, though gifted audio-books would help them to get closer to works of Ukrainian literature.

"For us audio-book is not only a window to art, but it is also a chance to enrich our world. The Ukrainian Society of Blind has a Republican house of sound recording and printing, but this year it reduced significantly releases of its products due to lack of funds. So granted audio-books are very important for us", - director of the Volyn Regional Administration of UTOS Yuriy Symanchuk said after the event.

Heads of regional administrations UTOS gathered yesterday in Boyarka for the 8th Plenum of the Central Board of the Ukrainian Society of Blind. Peeled walls of the UTOS Rest House, where the meeting took place, tired and worried faces of those present clearly showed how the Ukrainian society cares of problems of people with sight problems. But such seemingly insignificant event as presenting of audio-books rocked the audience and pleasantly revived the hall. Because these specific, albeit small steps will help these people to feel attention of others to their problems, to feel a full themselves a full-value part of a society.

It should be stressed that granted audio books present works of the Ukrainian literary contemporaries and classics. There are particularly the works of Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Gogol, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrayinka, Yuriy Andrukhovych, Irene Rozdobud'ko, Lubko Deresh and other masters of words.

The event became possible owing to a charity evening in December of last year, where the Foundation managed to collect 25 709 UAH. From these funds audio books were purchased for the blind societies in Ukraine.

Charity evening was the completion of presented by the «Open Ukraine» Foundation tactile exhibition for blind “Touch and see”. For the first time in Europe and particularly in Ukraine, tactile pictures were

During 2008, residents of Kyiv, Lviv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Simferopol, Chernivtsi, and Odessa could see the exhibition. Overall, about 30 000 people visited this unique exhibition.