Visually impaired citizens in Mozambique will now benefit from a regulation on Compulsory Social Security in Braille format, an instrument that aims to introduce pensioners and retirees to accessible models of communication, without the aid of third parties.

According to the director-general of the National Social Security Institute (INSS), Joaquim Siúta, the initiative, introduced for the first time in Mozambique, will make this instrument better known among this population group with special needs.

"The INSS will continue to look for accessible models of communication so that visually impaired citizens, as well as those with other disabilities, have the opportunity to read the legislation on Compulsory Social Security, which it manages, without necessarily needing the help of third parties," said Joaquim Siúta, who was speaking on Monday (17) in the city of Beira, in the central province of Sofala, at the launch of the first brochure of the Compulsory Social Security Regulations in Braille.

To produce the brochure, the INSS began by identifying and mapping the specific groups and their respective contexts, with a view to seeking tools that would guarantee equal access to information for users of the services provided by this institution.

Quoted by AIM, Joaquim Siúta explained that it was in this analysis of possibilities that the INSS began to create conditions for visually impaired users, so that they have access to everything that constitutes the range of information produced by the institution, as well as the functioning of the Social Security System itself.

"This launch comes after the INSS received the first Braille printer in its history, which will help visually impaired pensioners, workers, taxpayers and employees to print out a variety of information," said the source.

In this first phase, 300 copies have been produced, in two volumes each. According to Siúta, this number will increase significantly in the coming days, given that all the country's provinces have been covered.

According to the 2017 population census, released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), around 15 percent of the Mozambican population is made up of citizens with different forms of disability.