The Seeing Hands Remedial Massage course is comprehensive, requiring a thorough understanding of Anatomy and Physiology and a minimum of 100 hours of clinical practice. Students must also complete a series of Braille and practical examinations before they can qualify as Seeing Hands masseurs.

The Seeing Hands Clinic is located in the Lakeside area of Pokhara (click for map), a popular tourist destination where many Himalayan trekking routes start and finish.

In our comfortable treatment rooms, weary mountain trekkers enjoy a professional standard of massage from qualified Seeing Hands masseurs. The fees they pay help to fund the training of more young and disadvantaged blind people, and as more graduate the project will slowly expand into other tourist centres.

It is our eventual aim for the Seeing Hands project to evolve into a totally self-sustaining social enterprise, run by the blind, for the blind.

There are also benefits in terms of simply raising awareness. Seeing blind people successfully earning a living may actually help to change attitudes in Nepal and dispel common misconceptions about the blind and their capabilities.

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