As part of the cross-hub collaboration Shaping Disability, Qissa - The Audio Story project seeks to create an equal world where people with print disabilities can easily 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.

Qissa is a collaborative effort between the Noida Hub and Dehradun Hub to help enable learning for children aged 5-13 years-old who need engagement and support for their development during these critical years. The project aims to make vernacular content accessible to children in the form of short five to seven-minute stories so they stay in 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