Council’s Social Development Division strives to restore the human dignity of visually impaired people by giving them the tools that will allow them to become self-sufficient, to increase their sense of self-worth and to ultimately become contributors to society. As long as blind and partially sighted people are locked in a vicious cycle of poverty and illiteracy they will remain dependent on their families, communities and the state.

Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is an outreach initiative that assists visually impaired persons in starting up their own self help groups and small businesses (Click here for more information on CBR). This model also provides Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) (click here for more information on ABET) and Entrepreneurial Training (click here for more information about Entrepreneurial Development) , which is based on international formats and standards. For the little ones, we offer support to Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programmes  (click here for more information on ECD)

Institutionalised vocational training is provided through Optima College. This facility offers vocational training courses in computer literacy (click here for more information on computer literacy training), call centre operator training (click here for more information about call centre training) as well as Braille literacy (click here for more information on braille literacy training). The college also contains hostel facilities that can accommodate up to 38 students at any one time.