Disabled / Disability / Disabilities On Stamps

Egypt
Egyptian Sports Federation for Intellectual Disabilities
April 2023
DIFFERENTLY ABLED

Colombia
Rehabilitation Center for Blind Adults
June 7, 2012
The minisheet depicts training for the use of Braille.

Bahamas
International Year of Disabled People
February 10, 1981
The stamp symbolized care and hope for disabled people.

Sri Lanka
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 3, 2009
The stamp shows disability emblems and caring of the disabled person.

New Zealand
Anniversary - Crippled Children Society
February 5, 1975
The design shows a child overcoming handicap.

Singapore 1 Dec 2023 Purple Parade - Singapore's largest movement to support inclusion and celebrate abilities of persons with disabilities:

Stamp issued in 2001 for centenary of the Israel Institute for the Blind (the centenary was in 2002!). The background is black, symbolizing how the world is dark to those without sight.

The FDC attached has the Braille Hebrew alphabet, but not embossed, with the corresponding regular Hebrew letters. Hebrew is written from right to left, but Hebrew Braille from left to right. The stamp itself has Braille "Israel" in embossed letters, so it reads the equivalent of "LEASRI" !

There is a small error on the envelope. Over the image of the Institute (lower left) it says in Hebrew "Centenary", and above this in embossed Braille the same (but of course in the opposite direction). I have enlarged this text. One Braille letter, which I have framed in red, is incorrect. The correct letter is in the blue frame.


See here: https://findyourstampsvalue.com/new...aille-stamps

From 1906 to 1965 there were reduced UK postage rates for mail for the blind. See https://www.gbps.org.uk/information...or-blind.php
A special label had to be used, as the one attached:


Since then all mail for the blind is free.
The USA was far in advance of the UK, having instituted free mail in 1899: https://www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-are/...ons-mailing/

Today, all international post for the blind is free: https://worldblindunion.org/wp-cont...he-Blind.doc

Valentin Haüy, Pioneer Teacher Of Reading For Blind, Using Embossed Letters. FDC France 1959

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Ha%C3%BCy
https://www.placesinfrance.com/vale...e_blind.html
Louis Braille was a pupil of the Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille

Radio for benefit of blind. France 1938

Yvert & Tellier n° 418

Thanks, Barbour, for the items about blindness. Do you collect this topic?

Integration of blinds in society, issued by Algeria on October 21, 1976:

Blinds, painting by Nasreddine Dinet (born as Alphonse-Étienne Dinet, 1861 -1929):

Blind worker:

Same design on the FDC's and on the commemorative postmark:

No, I just wanted to contribute.

Switzerland
50 Years Swiss Paraplegic Foundation
March 6, 2025
The stamp depicts a trained teacher working with a patient suffering from spinal cord injury.