This Wednesday, February 3rd, the I Iberdrola Solidary Awards were held, and ASOCIDE was invited as one of the 30 NGOs which projects were backed up by Iberdrola Solidary Aids in 2015. The president of Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán, thanked the institutions for the impact that their daily work has to achieve a more human and caring society. Three prizes were...

Last Saturday, January 23rd, the President of FASOCIDE, Francisco Trigueros, had a speech on Deafblindness in the Association of the Deaf of Cartagena, ASORCAR. The presentation was attended by the members of ASORCAR, some of them were deaf people with visual impairment, and a group of students of the Higher Level Training Course in Sign Language Interpretation. It was a...

Today we celebrate that on 4th January 1824, Louis Braille (1809-1852), who was a 15 year old student of the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, decided that he had the right to read and worked to create a tactile alphabet that was easy to learn, write and use: the Braille system. This system has been connecting for 191...

The President of FASOCIDE, Francisco Javier Trigueros Molina, held on Wednesday December 16th a meeting with some directors of the RTVE corporation: Mr. Pere Vila Fumás, Director of Technology and Innovation Systems; Ms. Sara Martin Olmo, Head of Coordination and Institutional Relations; and D. Francisco Armero Real, Director of Broadcast and Continuity. During the meeting, Trigueros explained the main characteristics...

Yesterday, Wednesday December 16th 2015, our Deafblind colleague, Carlos Martinez, had surgery by professionals from the Barraquer Eye Center of Barcelona to receive an artificial vision implant. About 100 people around the world have undergone this type of intervention so far (four people in Spain since 2014), but Carlos is the second Deafblind person testing this ‘bionic eye’ (the first...