On the occasion of 25th International Day of the Persons with Disabilities, Bright Star Society is currently conducting a week-long disability awareness campaigns with different activities and initiatives to increase awareness and promote the understanding of disability rights and issues amongst the people. As an onset of the campaign on Dec 3 Saturday, Bright Star […]
Funds with Fun: Deusi-Bhaili, The Traditional Singing and Dancing Cultural Program Conducted
On the auspicious occasion of Dipawali 2016, Bright Star Society conducted an exclusive Deusi Bhailo Program on October 29 and 30 with the charitable intention to raise funds for it’s forthcoming social campaigns and community-rebuilding initiatives targeted in the earthquake-affected communities of Nepal. Deusi Bhaili, a traditional singing and dancing cultural program performed during Tihar/Dipawali […]
Joining Hands for Hope: A Special Dashain Program and White Cane Safety Awareness day Observed
Bright Star Society, on October 15 Saturday, organized a half-day event with two different purposes under the single scheme: to mark the World White Cane Safety Day with white cane distribution and awareness campaign, and to celebrate Dashain festival for those adults and children with disabilities who did not get to return their homes/villages for […]
BSS Conducts Leadership Training for Adolescents with Disabilities
Bright Star Society and Compassionate hands for Nepal (CHFN) organized a 15 days comprehensive training on leadership, personality development skills for the youth with disabilities. Media to medicine, health to hospitality management, sexuality to behavior-change communications and lots of topics were covered and discussed during the training enabling youth who attended the training from different […]
Text to Speech developer, Him Prasad Gautam Passed Away
Him Prasad Gautam, The inventor and developer of Nepali text to speech, dristivachak, Netravani, Nepali Unicode, Vernamala including other south-Asian Text to speeches in different 16 languages, passed away on Tuesday morning at Annapurna neuro hospital in Kathmandu. Mr. Gautam was only one Nepali developer of Non-Visual Desktop Application, (NVDA). Serving as an Environment engineer […]