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Les Doigts Qui Rêvent Ldqr (Dreaming
Fingers) is born in 1993 after noticing
the total lack of access to TiB (Tactile Illustrated Books) for the impaired children in France. A group of parents and teachers seeing no state answers, decided to react. One teacher of the group had succeed to produce one TiB (100 copies, illustrated with textures) in a incredible way. But the success of this TiB proved that it was very urgent to create a special workshop to produce TiB. Les Doigts Qui Rêvent is a publisher as a charity and its aims are : - to create and produce TiB accessible to Blind children - to help Blind children into their integration. Tasks : - Create and to produce TiB and to distribute them at a normal price in all the same cultural places where sighted find their books. - Call professional writers/illustrators to work in the tactile illustration field - Develop an international co-operation - Favour the Blind children integration by animations in ordinary schools. - Make the librarians sensible to adapted books - Develop research on TiB in partnership with universities - Help as much as possible Blind children from poor countries The mind of Ldqr did not accept any human exploitation. So instead of sending our production in some country with very low salaries, we have created in our town, a workshop providing a way for people with great social disabilities to restart to have a normal life and to find a job. What we have done: - 1992: Creation of the TiB "Au pays d'Amandine dine dine" and 4 tactile puzzles - 1993: Production of 100 copies of that TiB and the puzzles - 1994: Ldqr is registred as a charity - 1995: Study journey in Europe to meet people involved in TiB - 1996: Creation of our workshop1 supervisor - 1999: Organisation of a international meeting about TiB (Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Russia, England, France) - 2000: Creation of Tactus, first European award for TiB with, Belgium, France, Italy, United Kingdom, in a European Framework "Culture 2000". - 2001: The workshop has 3 supervisor and 6 workers
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