Labradors-navigators help to navigate 10 chickens with vision problems
More than 25 million rubles was sent by the Social Fund of Russia in the Kursk region to support residents with visual impairments in 2026
These funds purchased more than 1.5 thousand technical means of rehabilitation (TSD), and another 6 people underwent sanatorium-resort treatment. Currently, 1626 Kuryans receive pensions and monthly disability payments.
Specific devices are selected for medical reasons, which the Bureau of Medical and Social Expertise makes to the individual rehabilitation program (IPRA). The most popular means of communication this year: 132 people received phones with non-visual navigation. Another 182 residents were provided with tifloflashplayers for listening to “talking books”, and 166 people with white canes. To navigate in space, 29 Kuryans received Robin electronic assistants with artificial intelligence, vibration and speech output, which recognize faces and warn about obstacles. Those who, in addition to vision and hearing, were given 27 Braille displays worth more than 500 thousand rubles each.
Another means of rehabilitation is a guide dog. Today, 10 residents of Kursk and Kastorensky district have such assistants of the Labrador breed. They can count on people with disabilities of group I vision, if the need is prescribed in the IPRA. To receive, you need to apply and fill out a questionnaire, indicating the conditions of residence and routes. Owners are annually compensated for the maintenance and veterinary service (more than 39 thousand rubles), and from 2026 there is a payment for feed - 83.9 thousand rubles per year.
An application for TCP can be submitted through “Public Services”, in the client service of the SFR or MFC. Pensions and monthly disability payments are assigned automatically on the basis of data from the Federal Register of Disabled Persons.
