[Blind-international-students] meeting minutes from august 22

[Anmol Bhatia]

Hi everyone,
Zolly is looking for a braille machine for a school in Panama. So if you or anyone you know who would be willing to donate one it will be much appreciate  it. Also American Association for People with Disabilities awards 10,000 dollars to groups or individuals doing some project eather in the United States or abroad. The award is the Paul D. Hern award given every March at the AApPD gala. So maybe next year we can apply for this grant for a project that we want to do or to futher our work.
Anmol
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Hellen Keller


--- On Tue, 8/24/10, hina altaf <hinaaltaf1983 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: hina altaf <hinaaltaf1983 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Blind-international-students] meeting minutes from august 22
> To: "Blind International Students Mailing List" <blind-international-students at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 10:35 AM
> hi,
> The meeting minutes for this meeting are as  follows:
> people in attendance, hina, imran, anmol, philip, jan,
> rachna, bruce
> and Zully JF a representative from causes for change.
> We had introductions and every one told their names, degree
> and where
> they are in United states  and are originally from and
> what they are
> doing at present.
> then we talked about what this group's goals are:
> we discussed that this group will represent blind
> internationals here
> in US and other under developed countries and that it is
> not
> restricted to only students but anyone who is blind
> international is
> welcome to the list and this  group will work as a
> support group for
> them to network and we will help them with resources to
> succeed. as
> imran said  the  philosophy is "to arm the blind
> internationals with
> resources" rachna said she will bring the director of blind
> core to
> the list. we had a representative from causes for change.
> we also discussed what blind world union is doing and if we
> can
> benefit from this organization.
> it was discussed of how we would like to advertise this
> group and
> philip pointed out that we did send emails to various
> universities
> last year but since university disability departments 
> might think us
> as a political or advocacy  group and might not
> forward our mails to
> their students and that we need to make it a social
> networking group.
> Zully JF recommended  that we
> should   contact to various embassies
> councelats of different countries and imran also said we
> should
> contact imigration office. they might have some way of
> knowing if any
> blind international is coming but due to confidentiality
> reasons they
> might not disclose to us their information  but might
> pass on our
> information to blind internationals.
> 
> also we discussed if we  would like to work under some
> organization
> and the decission was taken that for right now we will
> remain under
> nfb and leave it as it is because since  nfb is active
> in promoting
> braille and advocacy, that might be helpful for us.
> we also discussed to make our web site or some web page for
> our group
>  eventually. we are also going to record our meetings for
> next time.
> also at the end we discussed that everyone is going to send
> me their
> contact information so we could compile a list and we
> decided to send
> that off list for security reasons. the list will only be
> given to the
> board members.
> we voted to have meetings biweekly and if we see any
> problem with that
> in the future we might change to monthly. but in order to
> have the
> group up and running and to get more members, we decided to
> have
> meetings biweekly on sundays at 2 pm at central time
> and  if anyone
> from another country would like to join we will try to
> accomodate if
> we can.
> our next meeting will be on september 5th central time at 2
> pm and
> calling information is:
> 218-936-2100
> and access coad is 1111
> 
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