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The House passed a bill regulating the use of green cane as an instrument of orientation and mobility for people with low vision. The president of the National Union of the Blind of Uruguay, Gabriel Soto, told 180 that this will help spread the use. "The company is not fully understood the issue of low vision and do not understand why a person uses a green stick, "he said.

Published: April 4, 2011 at 12:22

By: Emiliano Zecca

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National Union for the Blind of Uruguay (UNCU) the most important is diffusion. In Article 2, states that "the Executive Branch shall regulate the necessary tools for wider national distribution on the benefits the use of the cane green and its meaning for all Uruguayans. "

The President of the Union of the Blind, Gabriel Soto, said that they " society is not very clear the issue low vision and not understood by why a person uses a green stick. " "So it's important to spread the use to which also the society of account that there are people who see little, but some are. The ideal is that these things were not regulated by law, but is a tool valid in terms of importance, "he said.

The solution is to identify people with low vision with a staff of another color , in this case green. The idea was born in Buenos Aires, city where the use of green cane to identify people with low vision is a law since 2002.

Soto has low vision and regularly use the green cane to get around. UNCU president said the person with low vision is driven more security a blind person. Also the head position is different. "Although we always a tendency to look down, there are looks more direct to faces. Sometimes you wonder why you use a green stick and those who know you wonder how you see " he said.

UNCU President spoke about the internal process that leads him to recognize someone who has low vision and the importance of green cane in the process. He explained that many people see very little, use glasses quite increase, but not considered to have low vision and perhaps themselves are in low vision. "When you start to accept the situation, begins to approach the places where they offer the help . Not before, because it is a duel brave enough to accept that you're losing your vision. The green cane helps us to make that situation is not so brave and we do not directly identify as a blind person, because some see it, "he said.

The project was approved on Wednesday 16 March unanimously in the House of Representatives. The MP for Soriano, Gonzalo Novales, who was presented in November 2008. In the preamble explains that the goal is "to make a contribution seeks to directly benefit the people not blind but with low vision by using green cane international use. "