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People Logistics - Airlines Flight for vision Our Bureau
Miles Hilton-Barber, a visually challenged adventurer, is having his afternoon tea in khullar (mud pot) in Kolkata on Saturday. — A. Roy Chowdhury
Kolkata March 31 Miles Hilton-Barber is not your everyday adventurer, living life dangerously. True, he is taking his micro-light aircraft from one end of the globe to the other. But what makes this aviator stand apart is he's visually challenged. He is flying from the UK to Australia, and has now touched down in Kolkata. He's undertaken this journey to mobilise £1 million to fight preventable blindness. Hilton-Barber is travelling across Europe, the Mediterranean and West Asia. Along the route are Pakistan, India and Myanmar; he will go through Malaysia and Indonesia before culminating his journey in Sydney, Australia. Hilton-Barber, who arrived in Ahmedabad a few days ago, is stopping in several of Standard Chartered's markets as part of an initiative named `Seeing is Believing'. The initiative aims to restore sight of 10 million people across the globe by World Sight Day 2010. Miles and his team began the journey on March 7, 2007. He uses the revolutionary speech-output technology to fly his specially customised micro-light plane.
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