The goals of the Union are:

  • Connecting the members of the Alliance in order to promote and protect human rights and freedoms
  • Advocating for the realization, strengthening and equalization of the basic rights of blind and partially sighted persons based exclusively on the consequences of disability, regardless of the circumstances of the disability
  • Strengthening the economic and social security of the blind
  • Improving the system of education, rehabilitation, vocational training, retraining and employment of the blind
  • Monitoring, encouraging and coordinating the activities of members in arranging and exercising social, health, tax, customs, traffic and other rights, privileges and facilities
  • Procurement and distribution of typhlotechnical, special and orthopedic aids
  • Organizing professional discussions, conferences, symposiums and conferences
  • Information and educational activities, publishing of magazines and books in sound, braille and other techniques accessible to blind and partially sighted persons
  • Implementation of activities in the field of culture
  • Sports and recreational activities
  • Other activities of interest to the blind

General

 
The organization of blind and partially sighted people in this area has a 70-year tradition. After the Second World War, republican organizations were formed in the SFRY and its territorial units in the period 1946–1949. years that had their branches and affiliates by county. In 1949, an organization of the blind in the Bosnian Krajina was formed in the Banja Luka district. At the beginning of the 1990s, the former Yugoslavia disintegrated, and thus the unified organization of the blind SFRY and republican organizations disintegrated. In order to continue with continuous and organized care and support for blind and partially sighted people, who needed help and protection even more due to the war, an Union of Blind and Visually Impaired People of Republic of Srpska was formed in Republic of Srpska and BiH. The union was registered on October 12, 1992 in the High Court in Banja Luka.
 
The mission of the Alliance is the development and improvement of the social position of blind and partially sighted persons and organizations, as well as their socialization and integration into the social community. The vision is to achieve an accessible society, without barriers, prejudices and stigma, in which conditions are provided for independent living and work of blind and partially sighted people.