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

Wed Aug 25 01:16:35 UTC 2010

Sorry about that and you are welcome. I will send a add to couple of other list serves that I am on and I will send a add  to the Braille Monitor and Braille Forum the magzine for the two consumer organizations serving the blind community. But before I do that I will write up a add and send it to you for approval. Also I will send a add to Mattilda Zigler magzine and perhaps this group could submit a add there as well. Alot of blind individuals living in other countries as well as in the United States subscribe to this magzine.
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, Causes for Change International (CCI) <Info at CausesforChange.org> wrote:

> From: Causes for Change International (CCI) <Info at CausesforChange.org>
> Subject: Re: [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, 8:05 PM
> Thank you Anmol for sending my
> request out
> To everyone. I just want to make the correction
> That it is for a school in Ecuador for the
> Immediate time. Of course, we also work with
> Panama and they would welcome one as well.
> I am always looking and will accept equipment
> To take to different countries.
> Zully
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blind-international-students-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:blind-international-students-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Anmol
> Bhatia
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:45 PM
> To: Blind International Students Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blind-international-students] meeting minutes
> from august 22
> 
> 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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