Oswaldo Loor Foundation
This Foundation is located in Manabi province in Ecuador, their dedicated work is
with people that has visual impairment and others special needs, their site is:
https://www.fundacionoswaldoloor.org/
The project that I developed was to do some designs in braille regarding themes of geography,
mathematics and science, all the process that was made, started from researching about braille, how
the map had to be printed and all the specifications involved until getting the product
finished.
All the products were given to the Foundation in 2016, these products are: A multiplication table,
the solar system, the layers of the Earth and 10 geography maps that cover all the 5 continents.
All the process is well detailed on the Academic Paper called “Más allá de la RSE para Personas con
Discapacidad Visual”, in the followed link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-BPxx66JoseoIo9LfWjW-EraLSMRpk5/view?usp=sharing and the
translation is attached with all the documents.
Here are some images of the final products.
Solar System in braille
Multiplication Table in Braille
Maps in Braille
Layers of the Earth in Braille
In the next link, I am enclosing an
example of the
designs that were made for this project.
Maps
in Braille
Mariana de Jesús Foundation
This Foundation is located in Quito - Ecuador, their work is with people that has
visual impairment as well as other special needs.
The project was developed during 2019, in this case, the products that were made were models with
textures with the objective of creating a simulation of reality, for instance, how can a child feel
the grass and know that is grass, or anything that belongs to his/her environment, these products
were focus in to teach the children what form the objects have and the texture that comes with it.
With my coworker, we decided to adapt some stories and the characters will be related to them, as an
example the Little Red Riding Hood.
As I mention before, the products were finished on time, however, because of the pandemic situation
that started on March 2020 here in Ecuador, we could not hand the products over to the
Foundation.
Here are some images of the final products.
Little Red Riding Hood
The Shepherd
Life at a farm
The bee and the dove
Textures / Material Book
Textures / Material Book
The Farm
The Ugly duckling
