Sri Rakum School for the Blind is a Free Residential School for the Visually Impaired and for the Sighted-under privileged. We are over two-decades-old and are constantly growing to accommodate more children. The focus is on education and all-round development of the child, we believe in the principle of inclusion and full participation.
Completely Free Education, Lodging, and Boarding from Kindergarten to Post Graduation
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Campaign
Devanahalli Building
Rakum School for Blind has been a Lifesaver for many below poverty blind children. Acting as helping ...
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Blindathon
Want to be a part of soul pleasing and memorable Marathon, then mark the date 3 Dec 2017. Sri Rak ...
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Projects
Harvesting Solar and Wind energy
Since the school is situated in a village with no availability of power, it is planning to become self-reliant by harvesting Solar and Wind ...
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High School and College Building
Upgradation of the village school which is at the Primary level to provide High School and College Education for the village children is one ...
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Testimonial
Pallavi celebrated her birthday with Rakum Kids, 6 Years in a row. Pallavi completed her 12th grade from Bangalore International School and at present doing her Internship at Teligney(company) Pallavi ...
Pallavi Student
Seems like the world isn't that bad a place when we have good Samaritans like him. This gentleman is a dedicated patron of our Indiranagar campus who regularly brings food items and donates cash liber ...
Anonymus Programmer
Guruji has managed the school very well. He has planned the school in such a way that all the blind children are taken care, here two sighted children take care of a blind child. ...
Ujwal Hegde CEO, Ultratech Networks pvt ltd
Awards
Every year, the Integrated Council for Socio-Economic progress, Thrissur, Kerala issues to the meritorious achievements in diversified field of activities that ...
Gnana Bhangara(Golden Wisdom) Award for Acharya Shree Rakumjee. Rakum Guruji received the Gnana Bangara Award (Golden Wisdom Award) for the year 2016, from Shri ...
Bangalore city’s highest civilian award, the Kempegowda Award was bestowed on Acharya Rakumjee by the Honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri Siddhar ...
Stories of Hope
Bhavya studied in Govt School till 9th standard was born with sight in Tumkur on August 13, 1989. She was able to read and write as normal students and it was in 9th standard her sight started to decr ...
BHAVYA
Born on July 27th, 1989 in Chintamani, Reddyamma is partially blind, who joined Rakum School in October 2006. She worked as a Kitchen Helper initially and was inspired by the students and took up stud ...
Reddyamma
Kavitha was born sighted on 18th October in a small village in Kolar District. As her mother was blind by birth, she was admitted to the Rakum School. Kavitha says, she witnessed many blind people in ...
Kavitha
Miss Sharada , head of our Arkavathy Branch is a computer enthusiast. Sharada was introduced to us by Eenadu correspondent from the borders of Andhra Pradesh. She lost the power of sight at age 13 an ...
Miss Sharada
Being at home for 11 years, Mr. Narashimha Reddy joined us when he was 25 years old. He was mentally disturbed after his loss of sight. With the love and attention of Sri Rakum he is now free of menta ...
Mr Narasimha Reddy
A 10th class pass-out Mr. V Natraj was born with a partial sight. His eyesight reduced gradually and was not able to read or write which kept him idle from 1996-2002. He joined Rakum in 2003 and comp ...
Mr. V. Nataraj