[Community-service] What tells me we have work to do

[Cheryl Fields]

darian,
Here! Here! I agree! Just want to know, what have you decided to do
about this situation?
Cheryl

On 2/23/14, Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>   a month or so ago I had a conversation with my old unit leader in
> AmeriCorps NCCC.
>  I was talking with him about what to expect  as a part of the job when
> applying to be a team leader in the program.
>  We had talked about the various situations teams face  due  to the very
> fluid nature of the program and how team leaders need to be prepared for
> it.
>  He had suggested to me that the  femacorps program might be an easier
> program for me as a blind person because of the lack of variety in projects,
> that because it was mainly  administrative, it would be easier for me to
> operate in it.
>  there was more to  the conversation,  but I say that to say that programs
> such as this with people who have no prior  experience with blindness expect
> us to only work with the blind, to have very limited skill-sets and a lack
> of true belief in our real abilities.
>  The idea that we should stay home in our rocking chairs is not that far
> behind us.  The idea that we are only capable of assembly line work, not
> anything that shows that we move, think, act, operate like our  sighted
> peers is present today.
>  I think this shows that we have work to do.
>   What Say you?
>
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