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

Fri Aug 27 12:39:22 UTC 2010

Thanks for writing up the meeting minute, Hina.
We covered a lot at the meeting.
Philip

On 8/25/10, hina altaf <hinaaltaf1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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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>>
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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
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