The bicentennial year of the Birth of Louis BRAILLE is the opportunity to celebrate someone who is the great inventor and benefactor for visually impaired people all around the globe, and help the cause of the world’s visually impaired.

It came about on the initiative of the main French and European associations and institutions from the typhlophile* world grouped within the EBU (European Blind Union)

 

with the support of the High Committee for National Celebrations of the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
The Ministry of National Education.
The Ministry of Employment, Social Relations and Solidarity.

Under the patronage of the Representation in France of the European Commission.

The year 2009, which sees the commemoration of the bicentenary of the birth of
Louis BRAILLE,
is a unique opportunity to celebrate the great inventor
who has provided blind people all around the globe with the means to read and write
which they use everyday,
as well as take stock of the real situation
for these people in the contemporary world.
It must also be a privileged moment for the blind and the sighted to meet
with a genuine view to integration.