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

Causes for Change International (CCI) Info at CausesforChange.org
Wed Aug 25 18:55:24 UTC 2010 

Dear Chris,

Thank you very much for your message.

I am pleased to learn of all the work that 

you are doing with the Shuar and other

Indigenous communities in the Amazon.

I have had the opportunity to visit with the 

Shuar in Naranjal. I have worked with several 

Towns in Canton Naranjal for the past three years

as we have coordinated health and educational

Volunteer travel missions. It would be wonderful

to do something together for next year. I have 

had an interest in taking holistic practitioners from

the US to work side by side with Ecuadorian practitioners

as this would be helpful to the local communities, as well

as creating an exchange in partnerships.

 

I agree with you about computers. Last year we 

Took several computers and donated them to three schools.

Would love to continue doing this.  The computers are 

not difficult to obtain, what is challenging is the cost 

in the shipment and or taking the extra weight as a volunteer traveler. 

If we can solve the problem of the cost with a friendly 

Airline, this would be a welcome challenge.

 

I look forward to working together with you 

 

Zully 

 

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From: Chris Canaday [mailto:canaday2 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:04 AM
To: blind-international-students at nfbnet.org; Info at CausesforChange.org
Cc: James Canaday M.A. N6YR
Subject: Fwd: Re: [Blind-international-students] meeting minutes from august
22

 

Dear Causes for Change and Blind International Students,

My brother, Jim, an active member of NFB, sent me the following message,
given that it involves a project in Ecuador. If I can be of any help, I live
in Puyo, Ecuador, on the eastern side of the country in the Amazon.

By the way, I help administer the Omaere Ethnobotanical Park here, where we
teach about the traditional uses of plants, how the Shuar and Waorani people
live. We also offer natural medicine and teach about ecological sanitation.
I can imagine doing a tour for blind visitors, in which we emphasize
touching, smelling, and tasting selected plants. For more info, see
www.fundacionomaere.org.

On the Ecological Sanitation front, I am active in the building of
Ecological Dry Toilets and Vegetated Sand Filters, which are especially
important in places like Ecuador where there is next to no wastewater
treatment. So far, we build Ecological Dry Toilets (a.k.a. Urine-diverting
Dry Toilets, UDDTs) in such a way that people need to look and aim with the
dry cover material, such as sawdust and wood ashes, but I am working on a
design that does not require looking, just pedalling a couple of loops on a
bicycle pedal. You can see some of my designs, including some in a fishing
village near Naranjal, Guayas, Ecuador, at www.inodoroseco.blogspot.com.

Blind people here are very marginalized and have few economic alternatives.
I have long thought it would be good to arrange to collect computers with
broken monitors in the US, set them up with voice synthesizers and bring
them down for blind people to use. I think they would likely be especially
apt, in this way, to transcribe recorded meetings, in addition to all the
other books and articles that they could write. Maybe there are computer
companies that have large numbers of computers that have been returned due
to defective monitors. 

Best wishes,
Chris Canaday
Puyo, Ecuador

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR <n6yr at sunflower.com>
Date: 2010/8/24
Subject: Fwd: Re: [Blind-international-students] meeting minutes from august
22
To: chris Canaday <canaday2 at gmail.com>




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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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Chris Canaday
Conservation Biologist and EcoSan Promoter
Coordinator of Guiding at the Omaere Ethnobotanical Park
Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
085250864, http://www.inodoroseco.blogspot.com
More info on the Omaere Ethnobotanical Park at www.fundacionomaere.org.

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