[Community-service] Introduction from Jewel of Raleigh, NC

[Elizabeth Rene]

Hi Jewel,

Thanks for your note.

I got it because I have just subscribed to the community service list serve.

But you have also sent your message directly to my personal e-mail address.

This means that I have had to glean it from my SPAM filter, put you into my 
address book so that I could get the message and determine its relevance to 
me,and that I will probably encounter it again when my digest of the list 
serve comes through.  This eats up a lot of time.

You sound like a fine young man, and a very interesting person.  But you are 
also a stranger.

So I'll be glad to hear from you on the list serve, but please don't write 
to me at home unless we later agree to extend a conversation off the list.

Thanks, and best wishes.

E. René




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel S." <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
To: <community-service at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 4:38 AM
Subject: [Community-service] Introduction from Jewel of Raleigh, NC


> Dear all,
>
> Good morning! My name is Jewel Shuping. Some of you likely know me
> from one of the several listservs I'm on. I'm very excited to be a
> part of this list. So, a little about me and my community service
> projects.
>
> I ive in Raleigh, NC (for now), and am 25 years old. I have been
> legally blind for two years (to the day) now, as caused by a severe
> facial burn and secondary glaucoma. Though I was lucky to have very
> little obviouis facial scarring (just under my right eye and in the
> corner of my left, and sometimes on the bridge of my nose), it caused
> bad scarring in my eyes. I have been a member of the NFB of NC's Wake
> County chapter for one year as of the second week of July *grin* and
> have been very active in the group from the very beginning, asssisting
> the group with the state convention that September and with Charity
> Days at Belk's and the annual yard sale. Since then, I have started my
> own projects, and gotten involved in legislative work. My first sorta
> community service is my blog, Treasure Chest for the Blind
> (<http://blindtreasurechest.blogspot.com>) and its new sister blog,
> Treasure Chest for the Blind of Raleigh and NC
> (<http://blindtreasurechestnc.blogspot.com>) which I just created
> yesterday. These are there to tell people about technology, programs,
> and other tools that they may not know about, especially free or
> inexpensive ones, that can assist them in daily living, work, school,
> and recreation. The featured tools, both old and new, have included
> NFB-Newline, NVDA, Radegast for Second Life, and Disney's new access
> tool for descriptive services. Please feel free to check it out!
>
> The other project I have currently is for the local public library. A
> young friend of mine told me once that she'd love to use the public
> library to check out books on CD, but it was extremely frustrating for
> her to have to 1) go to the librarian's desk to ask for assistance, 2)
> wait for someone who could take the time to look, 3) listen to them
> read off lots of titles she had no interest in, 4) settle on a book
> she really didn't want, but got so that she didn't feel like she had
> wasted the librarian's time. Why should a blind person have to do this
> just to check out a book that when brought home, is accessible? Thus
> was born my idea to get Braille labels added to each case in the audio
> collection. This is, of course, an enormous project. Our local library
> alone has nearly 5,000 cases in their audio collection (not books,
> just cases-- some cases have more than one case). I am currently
> working on writing a proposal for the Friends of the Library to seek
> funding from there. The Wake Federation of the Blind has agreed to
> assist with funds as needed (within reason, of course, since the
> entire project for this one library will be over $700), and I will be
> seeking funding from the Lion's Club and United Way if the Friends of
> the Library cannot fund it. Thus far, I have four volunteers besides
> me, and once I have funding, I'll be actively seeking more. I hope to
> make this a county-wide project, to have Braille labels on the audio
> cases at all the libraries in Wake County. It has already been quite
> an educational adventure, and I'm extremely glad that I began it. Now
> just to finish it! If anyone has any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, or
> questions, I'd love to hear them!
>
> My proposal outline is currently being gone over with a fine-toothed
> comb by an advocate at Alliance for Disability Advocacy, and I'm
> expecting it back today. Once I make any corrections she suggests,
> I'll post it to this group, and start writing the actual proposal (I
> only have an outline right now).
>
> Glory, Glory Federation,
> Jewel
>
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