The World Braille Day is celebrated on January 4, of every year across the world.
World Braille Day was celebrated to honor the inventor of Braille Script. The script was invented by Louis Braille, and January 4 is celebrated as World Braille Day. January 4, is the birthday Louis Braille and he was born in France on January 4, 1809. The Braille Language is based on the raised dots of patterns over a sheet of paper. This helps a blind person to touch and read the words by feeling the touch with their fingers. In Braille, each alphabet, number, or the musical and mathematical symbols were represented with the combination of six dots.
World Braille Day has been introduced to raise awareness of the importance of braille, which is used as a communication medium by humans who are completely or partially blind. It will help about 1.3 billion people to get aware about Braille and use it as a communication medium. It will help visually-impaired and partially-sighted people to realize their Human Rights and use it as a communication medium for promoting fundamental freedom.
World Braille Day is not a Public Holiday, but the day has been celebrated by all. Whereas, the Non-Governmental Organizations from all over the world celebrate the day to create awareness about the challenges faced by a visually-impaired person, as well as, the health institutions, and the policymakers all over the world participate together to generate awareness.
The United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities says, Braille is a way of communication, and consider it as essential for education, freedom of expression and opinion, access the available and required information. Louis Braille invented this reading system when he was of only 15 years, and created this reading and writing system after the influence from the work of Charles Barbier’s night writing system.