Tuan Rushdi

1 st June 2016, Mr. Tuan Rushdi, Founder, HI eMarketing Solutions. Dear Mr. Rushdi, Appreciation of voluntary Service On behalf of the executive committee & all vision impaired persons attached to the Sri Lanka Council for the Blind, I’m writing to express our deepest appreciation for the service you rendered by designing and maintaining free of charge the SLCB web site: www.slcblind.org Your pro bono work has given us a creative, unique & visually appealing web site which is accessible to vision impaired users;  We trust you will continue to support us in the future too. Thank you once again. Sincerely, Shalika Karunarathna Hony. Secretary Sri Lanka Council for the Blind

Winning the Real Time Divisional Tournament was a great start for me this year in Chess. I was unbeaten in the tournament, winning 6 consecutive games.  2016 Real Time Divisional Tournament Final Standings After 6 rounds of play, here is the winners of each division in the tournament: Division 1 Winner: Olivier Deville, record 5-0-1 Division 2 Winner: Mark Hague, Record 4-0-2 Division 3 Winner: Tuan Rushdi, Record 6-0-0 Division 4 Winner: Evan Reese, Record 5-0-1 Now the final standings for all players by each division. Division 1 Final Standings Olivier Deville, 5 points Jim Thoune, 4 points Randy Kruzeniski, 2.5 points Jean Achelle, .5 points Division 2 Final Standings Mark Hague, 4 points Matthew Gibbons, 3 points Regis Gerbaux, 3 points Curtis Cockayne, 2 points Division 3 Final Standings Tuan Rushdi, 6 points Catherine Dib, 3 points Dammy Onafeko, 3 points Peter Feysa, 0 points Division 4 Final Standings Evan Reese, 5 poin...

Finding a suitable job for a vision impaired person is a challenging task. I lost my job twice because of my low vision, while I was working as a manager trainee & later when I was working as an IT executive. It became really hard to me to recover after I lost my first job. It took me 2 years to make my mind that I’m strong and capable of working in an office environment. But the same thing happened the second time as well. At that time I gave up looking for jobs because your employer is trying to get the maximum out of you at work, being vision impaired is a huge disadvantage for you while working in an office environment especially the number of employees are less than 10 in a company. Losing jobs in this way affects your personality really bad and it was a massive stress for me. After I lost my second job I followed a training program in Korean ANMA massaging therapy. The training program was organized by The New Light Welfare Center. The duration of the training progra...