Founded in 1964 and with training centers throughout Arizona, Saavi Services for the Blind (“Saavi”) is an agency that promotes the following:

• Saavi incorporates nonvisual skills training for all ages based on high expectations in preparation for higher education, employment, and everyday living.
• Saavi utilizes a variety of approaches in tools, accessible technology, and alternative techniques.
• Saavi partners with local and national consumer groups, such as the National Federation of the Blind, to advocate and influence legislative and lawful practices relevant to the blind community.
• Saavi staff role model, with the philosophy that students are never asked to do something that our staff cannot do themselves.
• Ever-evolving approach to how and what we teach, regardless of culture or language.