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Not eyes are needed to see that the world is full of good, but the heart and soul.

17.04.2015

Today there are about 125 million people live symbolia, perceive the world by hearing and smell. World Health Organization forecasts are disappointing - the number of blind people could double with the continuing dynamics in five years. They say they see by mean of soul, and that’s why far more available to them than those who see, but it's just talk. Taking into account that 90% of the information people receive through vision, those who are deprived of this opportunity require tremendous support, however often simply nowhere to wait for it. That’s why people who are able to see and blind impaired are combined to feel close comrade's shoulder, even in misfortune. In the Pridnestrovian Association of the Blind, six regional organizations brought together, about 1,200 visually impaired registered. The activity of the two companies - "Mayak" from Bendery and "Rassvet" from Tiraspol helped in Soviet times to solve perhaps the most serious problem - employment. Approximately 500 people worked in each of them. Today, "Mayak" was extinguished, and "Dawn" barely alive: the number of employees in the tens. Today, almost all of them gathered in the auditorium of the training and production enterprise. The occasion is absolutely festive - the Easter Sunday Not every unseeing parishioner could visit Easter service, but today the Orthodox holiday with its traditional Easter hymns and consecration of Easter cakes come in their common home.

Many of them did not see what is happening, but everybody felt warm-heartedness, warmth and caring neighbor force universal unity. Each took home the consecrated cake, the icon of the Holy Ascension Monastery, pleasant experience and fond memories. Not eyes are needed to see that the world is full of good, but the heart and soul.