2

WORD FROM THE PRESIDENCY AND SUPERINTENDENCE

We planned carefully, set our goals and executed them with dedication. That is how, the objectives present in our strategic planning became reality in 2023.

In the service area, we seek to expand our client’s horizons, including new rehabilitation activities, such as outdoor outings to museums and other cultural spaces, reinforcing our mission of bringing autonomy and independence to blind and visually impaired people. In addition to quality, we have also grown in quantity, reaching more than 25 thousand services.

Other major achievements took place in our books area, one of the focuses of our Foundation. For starters, we launched the new Dorinateca in March, which is even more accessible – including a mobile version – more modern and faster.

The next step is to increase the number of books and users on the platform.

We are also celebrating 10 years of our Inclusive Reading Network, which works to make cultural spaces accessible throughout Brazil, involving more than a thousand people.

In the printing office, it was a year of record numbers of pages printed in Braille: 14 million. And we are still investing to increase these figures even further. This year, we also opened our new audiovisual studio, where we produce accessible audiobooks and videos.

Francisco H. Della Manna

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Alexandre Munck

Executive Superintendent

ABOUT FUNDAÇÃO DORINA NOWILL PARA CEGOS

Promoting autonomy and independence for blind and low vision people and, at the same time, raising awareness in society about inclusion and accessibility are the objectives of Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos [Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind].

The institution is named after its founder, who lost her sight at the age of 17 but never gave up studying and reading. However, at the time, she faced many obstacles and began her fight to have more Braille books in Brazil. This is how the Fundação para o Livro do Cego (Brazilian Foundation for the Book of the Blind) began in 1946, with the mission of producing books in Braille – an activity that continues to be carried out by the Foundation to this day, 77 years later.

But Dorina took her dream much further and other missions emerged along her path. Over the years, the Foundation has modernized, innovated and evolved in several areas of inclusion for this public, both in editorial, graphic and audiovisual solutions and in inclusion support services. Recognized in Brazil and around the world for its excellent work, the Dorina Foundation completes another year of hard work and transformative actions, not only for people with disabilities, but also for each one of us.