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

Wed Aug 25 19:12:20 UTC 2010

Dear chris,
Glad to see your ambition to help blind people where you are. I know
there is an organization which gives computers on minimal cost and I
think i can talk to them to distribute free for this cause. But the
issue is how to send them. I have to look into how we can send
computers for the blind community there. do blind people get books in
any format there? thanks.
hina.

On 8/25/10, Causes for Change International (CCI)
<Info at causesforchange.org> wrote:
> 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
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> Shuar in Naranjal. I have worked with several
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> Towns in Canton Naranjal for the past three years
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> as we have coordinated health and educational
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> Volunteer travel missions. It would be wonderful
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> to do something together for next year. I have
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> had an interest in taking holistic practitioners from
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> the US to work side by side with Ecuadorian practitioners
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> as this would be helpful to the local communities, as well
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> as creating an exchange in partnerships.
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> I agree with you about computers. Last year we
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> Took several computers and donated them to three schools.
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> Would love to continue doing this.  The computers are
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> not difficult to obtain, what is challenging is the cost
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> in the shipment and or taking the extra weight as a volunteer traveler.
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> If we can solve the problem of the cost with a friendly
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> Airline, this would be a welcome challenge.
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> I look forward to working together with you
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> 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
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> 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
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> ---------- 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
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> [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
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> 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
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> --- On Tue, 8/24/10, hina altaf <hinaaltaf1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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> Coordinator of Guiding at the Omaere Ethnobotanical Park
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