17 unique books

Cherkasy-based designers, decorative and applied art specialists, sewing masters, florists, talented teachers and students, and members of out-of-school educational institutions’ interest groups have prepared tactile manuals as part of a social project. These books are in one copy only and have no analogues in Ukraine.

“The library is in a specialized comprehensive boarding school, and the city’s four educational institutions, including daycare facilities, for visually impaired children can use it,” Valerii Danylevskyi, director of the Cherkasy Oblast State Administration’s education and science department, says.

The books are made from special pleasant-to-touch materials and have 3D pictures that are as close as possible to the original phenomenon or object described in the manual. The organizers argue that other regions of Ukraine will borrow this experience because visually impaired and blind children are not provided with materials necessary for versatile development.