David Hyche’s daughter lost her vision when she was only four months old.
At first he didn’t know what it would be like to raise a blind daughter, but over time he learned that she didn’t want someone doing everything for her. She wanted do things on her own just like everyone else.
Her independant spirit inspired her father, an ATF agent, to build something that would allow her to take part in a holiday tradition enjoyed by millions of kids around the world: He developed the first Easter eggs for the blind.
He explained how he came up with idea to reporters:
I was doing a presentation at an International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) Conference and I showed pictures during the break of the kids at the Easter egg hunt. And a gentleman that’s an IABTI member saw that and thought that it would be the perfect marriage of ATF agents, law enforcement bomb technicians, and military bomb technicians to take this on as a project.”
Although the project was initially aimed towards kids at Easter time, they’ve since been used year-round in schools for disabled children.
“A lot of schools for the blind use the eggs year-round to teach kids how to locate things because it teaches them to use a logical pattern to search.” he explained.
