The Business Assistance for Persons with Visual Impairments Project in partnership with the Dutch Bartimeus Accessibility Foundation and the Society of the Blind of Moldova are launching the first of the three series of business training seminars intended for visually impaired persons, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a communique from the project, the training program is composed of five free training modules that will last for five days. It also includes a post-creation assistance component to help identify business opportunities, register a company and draw up applications for grants and loans. The first 15 participants in the seminar, who are mainly young persons aged between 18 and 30 from villages and small towns, were selected from about 150 applicants. The seminars are held at the company Lumintehnica and will end on November 26. According to the statistics of the project, more than 9,000 persons with visual impairments from Moldova live in conditions of increased social and economic risk. The Society of the Blind's annual report shows about 40% of them are blind. Their pension is lower than 800 lei, which represents 70% of the minimum subsistence level.