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

[Jewel S.]

We all make small mistakes; only the best of us apologize for them and
go on with our lives. *smile*

~Jewel

On 7/1/10, Elizabeth Rene <emrene at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear Jewel,
>
> Sorry for the rebuff.
>
> It appears that you did not intentionally email me at home.  My subscription
> to the list was not automatically set to digest mode.
>
> I have gone to the master list and manually selected my communications
> options.
>
> I will look forward to reading your comments on the list.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Elizabeth Rene'
>
>
> ----- 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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