For schools and training centers in the U.S.A., click here.

Note: Due to my own linguistic limitations, I have listed here mostly organizations with web sites in English or Spanish.

Bartimai Centre for the Blind
location: Ahmedabad INDIA
internet: http://www.geocities.com/bartimai/

Christian residential school.

Benemérito Comité Pro Ciegos y Sordos de Guatemala
location: GUATEMALA
internet: http://www.prociegosysordos.org.gt/index.php?id=1

A non-profit agency.

Erin H. Gilmour School for Blind and Visually Impaired Children
Adult Blind Center and Workshop
location: Kingston JAMAICA
internet: http://www.salvationarmybahamas.org/IFBlind.html

Run by the Salvation Army.

Escuela Nacional de Ciegos [National School for the Blind]
location: Ciudad Mexico, MEXICO

Escuela Nacional de Ciegos [National School for the Blind]
location: Santo Domingo, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Hadley School for the Blind
location: Winnetka, IL U.S.A. 
internet: http://www.hadley-school.org/

This is a correspondence school. It provides training for adults and teenagers. For the teenagers, the classes they take may apply towards their high school gradutation.

Ida Rieu School for the Blind
location: Karachi PAKISTAN
internet: http://idarieu.org/Sblind.html

Residential school and low vision clinic.

Instituto Loaiza Cordero Para Nino Ciegos
location: San Juan, PUERTO RICO

Mekele School for the Blind
location: Tigray, ETHOPIA
internet: http://mekeleblindschool.org/

Private residential school.

Mid India Christian Mission
location: Damoh, INDIA
internet: http://www.midindia.com/

This organization has an eye hospital and a school for blind children.

Overseas Blind Foundation
location: Santa Rosa, CA  U.S.A.
internet: http://codi.buffalo.edu/archives/.blind.schools.htm

This organization has compiled an extensive list of school for blind people that are located throughout the world. The list does not include addresses for internet web sites.

Peace Center for the Blind
location: Jerusalem  ISRAEL
internet: http://www.ipmconnect.org/partners/themes/1/projects/48/

This center, run by a blind Palestinian Christian woman, teaches living skills, reading, and hand crafts to blind women in Jerusalem.

Queen Alexandra College
location: Birmingham ENGLAND
internet: http://www.qac.ac.uk/

This is a residential and day school and rehabilitation center for people from agse 16 through 63, with vision loss or other disabilities.

Royal Blind School
location: Edinburgh SCOTLAND
internet: http://www.royalblindschool.org.uk/

"A national school providing for the special educational needs of young people with Visual impairments."

School for the Deaf, Dumb, Blind & Mentally Retarded
location: Nanded INDIA
internet: http://nambisan.net/index.htm

Residential school.

Sri Rakum School for the Blind
location: Bangalore INDIA
internet: http://www.rakum.org/

This residential school for blind children also admits underprivileged children without disaibilities.

State School for the Visually Impaired Waldkirch
location: Waldkirch GERMANY
internet: http://www.guck-mal.de/

Government school for visually impaired students.

St. Edmund's School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
location: N.S.W. AUSTRALIA
internet: http://www.stedmunds.nsw.edu.au/

A secondary school for youths with visual impairment and/or other disabilities.

St. Joseph's School for the Visually Impaired
location: Dublin IRELAND
internet: http://www.stjosephsvi.ie/

Residential and day school for visually impaired children, preschool through secondary.

St. Vincent's School for Blind and Partially Sighted Children
location: Liverpool ENGLAND
internet: http://www.stvin.com

Residential and day school for children and youths in primary and secondary levels.

Voice and Vision
location: Mumbai INDIA
internet: http://www.voicevisionindia.org/index.html

"National Center for Children who are Deafblind or Blind with Multiple Disabilities"

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