[Blindtlk] My article

[adrijana prokopenko]

Thank you very much. I am glad that the NFB could help
internationally, but couldn't find much about its international
devision, so maybe you can give me some links and other info if it
exists. Also, many people from the NFB and other organizations suggest
that I should get involved in the world blind union, but
unfortunately, this organization consists only of blindness
organizations and the Macedonian blind association is not a member or
contributing to its work because it doesn't have financial resources
or any presentations outside Macedonia and I am afraid I wouldn't be
able to get involved with them until I am satisfied with some things.
The world blind union is something similar to the AFB, but it doesn't
support or help international organizations financially or with human
and other resources. What people need to do is pay membership and
other expenses if they wish to attend the events they hold once every
few years and I really hope they decide to hold their conventions in
different places, so that they can taste a bit of different countries
and what things are like there. For now, they are holding them in some
places of great importance in one way or another.

On 9/5/17, Hyde, David W. (ESC) via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Adrijana, very nice work. I'm sorry I didn't check my email enough to know
> you were streaming the convention. Your information reminded me of my first
> convention in 1976. Somehow, I found a meeting of what was then called the
> Cultural Exchange and International Programs Committee, which, back then was
> chaired by Dr. Isabel Grant. I learned later that Dr. Grant and Dr. Tenbroek
> started the International Federation of the Blind, and Isabel had been
> traveling all over the world promoting the rites of blind people. You may
> want to get involved in your country's member of the World Blind Union. Keep
> posting here. It does us all good to have an international prospective.
>
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