World Braille Day | The moving reaction of a blind baby to receiving the entire Harry Potter saga

The video of when the girl received the gift quickly went viral on social media. (Photo: capture)

The reaction of a blind baby to receive the complete Harry Potter saga in braille at Christmas it has moved thousands of users on social networks. Images of when he opened the giveaway went viral. The protagonist of the video, which continues to elicit reactions and comments on social media, is called Last name, He is seven years old and lives in Kansas, United States. Was born with a genetic defect that prevents you from seeing. According to her aunt Katelyn Suter, She loves to read and is a fan of Harry Potter: Dad reads her the stories of the young wizard to her every night before bed.

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At the end of reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the girl told her father that she wanted to continue the story on her own. However, the family explained that the saga books they are very expensive and difficult to obtain in braille. Faced with this situation, her aunt decided to open an appeal to raise funds through a platform and be able to give Emrie a special Christmas present.

So many people contributed money to the cause that in just one month Katelyn raised over $ 4,200. This allowed her to surprise her niece with the full braille saga for Christmas and even donate five more series in this system to local libraries and schools.

The woman shared Emrie’s reaction in a post on her Instagram account. “OMG I have my own braille copy, now I can read it!” the girl yelled as she opened the box with the gift. The excitement was even greater when they told him that he not only had a book, but the whole saga.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who donated and how very special this Christmas was for my niece Emrie! As you can see, she is more than happy to be able to read the Harry Potter books herself! Katelyn wrote posting the video. On the platform where he raised the funds, he said he was “speechless” when he saw the “kindness” of the people, who in just 24 hours helped his niece and others blind children have a unique gift.

World Braille Day

Braille is a tactile reading and writing system created in the middle of the 19th century by the French pedagogue Louis Braille, who became blind from an accident as a child and adapted a military literacy system to an eight point system. Years later, he simplified it by leaving it to the universally known and adopted six-point system.

The system can represent letters, punctuation marks, numbers, scientific spelling, mathematical symbols, music and more. Consists of six point raised cells, organized as a matrix of three rows by two columns, which are conventionally numbered from top to bottom and left to right.

The encoding of symbols is obtained from the presence or absence of dots: from the six they are obtained 64 different combinations. Currently, Mendoza, the province and autonomous city of Buenos Aires are some of the neighborhoods where restaurants are required by law to have a Braille menu, although in fact very few do.

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 1.3 billion people worldwide suffer from some type of visual impairment. In 2006, the United Nations promulgated the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to promote the rights and well-being of these people with the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In November 2018, the General Assembly decided to proclaim the January 4 World Braille Day with the aim of making visible that facilitating access to writing “is an essential condition for people with visual impairments to fully enjoy human rights and fundamental freedoms”.

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