The following days also draw attention to the problems that the visually impaired struggle with in everyday life: the last Wednesday in April is Guide Dog Day, on October 15 people around the world commemorate International White Stick Day and November 13, Birth Day. Valentina Haüya, is commemorated as International Day of the Blind. but I return to the White Stick: "This indispensable compensatory aid of ours began its journey ** on February 7, 1931, when Guilly d'Herbemont, the mother of the White Stick, as we deservedly called her out of respect, at a small ceremony. she handed out the first white sticks to the Parisian blind. " excerpt from the magazine Nový život No. 2/2006, volume 57