Volunteer With Us

Join Us in Empowering Visually Impaired Students

At Help The Blind Foundation (HTBF), we believe education and skill development are the keys to independence and dignity for visually impaired students. Your time and expertise can make a lasting impact on their lives.

Why Volunteer with HTBF?

  • Create Opportunities: Help students gain skills for education, employment, and life.
  • Be Part of Change: Contribute to inclusive education and equal opportunities.
  • Flexible Engagement: Volunteer remotely or on-site, short-term or long-term.

Areas Where You Can Contribute

1. Scholarship Program
  • Mentorship: Guide scholarship recipients through their academic journey.
  • Application Review: Assist in evaluating scholarship applications to ensure deserving students receive financial support.
  • Career Counseling: Offer advice on career paths, internships, and job readiness.
2. Skill Development

HTBF runs impactful programs like STEP-Up, STEM, and EMET, designed to empower visually impaired students through education and employability skills. Volunteers can:

  • Teach digital literacy, English communication, and computational thinking.
  • Support STEM education for Grades 6–10 and Business Mathematics for Grade 11.
  • Mentor students in career readiness, including resume building, interview preparation, and workplace confidence.
  • Provide guidance on higher education and employment opportunities.
3. Content Creation
  • Convert learning materials into Braille, audio, and screen-reader-friendly formats.
  • Translate resources into regional languages for wider accessibility.
4. Co-Curricular Activities
  • Support Blind Football coaching and tournaments in partnership with the Tamil Nadu Blind Football Association.
  • Assist in music education programs delivered through Sankar Mahadevan Academy.
5. Accessibility & Technology
  • Audit websites and apps for accessibility compliance.
  • Train students on assistive technologies like NVDA, JAWS, and mobile accessibility features.
  • Help integrate Google Classroom and other accessible LMS platforms for visually impaired learners.
6. Research & Advocacy
  • Contribute to policy research and white papers advocating inclusive education.
  • Assist in preparing impact reports, case studies, and success stories for donors and stakeholders.
7. Events & Fundraising
  • Help organize awareness campaigns and fundraising events.
  • Spread HTBF’s mission in schools, colleges, and corporates.
How to Get Started
  • Step 1: Fill out our Volunteer Registration Form.
  • Step 2: Choose your area of interest and availability.
  • Step 3: Attend an orientation session and start making an impact!
Ready to Make a Difference?

Click below to sign up and become part of our mission:

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Volunteers

Any individual willing to serve our Foundation’s cause can become a volunteer.
The volunteer acts as an agent for the Foundation and helps in disbursing funds to the visually impaired students. This process needs them to collect application forms from the colleges, to interview the students to assess their eligibility, to ensure receipt of funds by the colleges/ students and obtaining receipts for the same. In short, they have to be guardians to the visually impaired students.
The Foundation only needs their time and commitment to ensure proper disbursement of sponsorships. They can be either full time or part time depending upon their time availability. The actual expenses incurred by volunteers, up to a reasonable extent, are reimbursed by the Foundation.
A Mentor can be either a donor or a volunteer, who makes a long-term commitment towards the progress and development of a visually impaired student or a group of them. This means that the mentor needs to be in touch with the students throughout their graduation, counselling them whenever needed. The relationship between the mentor and the students will be for a longer term, going beyond college education and employment.

Donors

Any individual or corporate can donate to our Foundation. They would have to give ID proof along with the donation. If the donation is made by a foreign entity, then submission of the following documents is mandatory.
  1. Passport copy in case of individuals
  2. A copy of the Registration Certificate in case of Corporate donors.
Please click here for further details of how to donate in India, Hong Kong and USA. If the donor wants to remit the donation directly, then our office in Chennai should be contacted to get the details of the respective country account details. Please write to info@helptheblind.in
No. There is no minimum or maximum amount that can be donated. All helping hands are welcome.
Yes. Donors can specify their wish to donate for a specific purpose. For example, they can say that the amount is to be used to purchase laptops or study guides like Angel Readers. Otherwise they can choose a specific college and/ or give a donation for a group of students studying in that college or to build facilities like a library or music room for the visually impaired students.
Yes. If the donors specifically ask for it, the Foundation would send them details of the set of students sponsored by them as well as keep them posted of the students’ progress.
Yes. We can do the entire process of due diligence on behalf of the donors. We can also monitor the progress of the students
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