As part of the cross-hub collaboration Shaping Disability, Qissa - The Audio Story project aims to help create an equal world where people with print disabilities can access audiobooks. The pandemic adversely impacted almost all industries and social communities by thinning resources, disrupting existing infrastructure, bringing everything to a halt. Visually impaired children further faced the brunt as the pandemic cut their access to learning and education for the longest time.

Qissa is a collaborative effort with the Dehradun Hub and Noida Hub to solve learning for children aged 5-13 years, who unequivocally need engagement and development during the growing years. The project aims to make vernacular content accessible to children in the form of short five to seven-minute stories so they don't lose touch with literature.

The hub is measuring the number of audio stories recorded, and the number of children impacted to document the impact scale.

The goals of the project include:

• The hub's short-term vision is to provide 100 audio stories to partner organizations collectively in a month


• The long-term vision of the hub is to increase the scope of collaboration amongst hubs and external organizations to create a large-scale impact