A CAMPAIGN is being launched this week to highlight the message that a carrier of a red and white cane is both deaf and blind.
National Deafblind Awareness Week is being launched by the charity Deafblind UK.
The awareness week commemorates the anniversary of the birth of Helen Keller, an inspirational deaf-blind campaigner, on 27 June, 1880.
Schools, community groups and companies are encouraged to get involved by organising their own red and white themed events.
We're very keen to highlight the importance of the cane to drivers because o who may have limited, or in some cases no, sight or hearing for the rights of deafblind peopleto get across the road to get across the road is held in June to in National Deafblind Awareness Week
Deafblind UK's chairman, Dr Philip Gafga, said: "Our streets can be places of great risk to a deafblind person. They need more time at pedestrian crossings, and find it difficult to navigate obstacles such as parked cars and signs."
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