[Community-service] (no subject)

[Cindy Ray]

In your efforts to do s specific thing, you could say that you would like to
be paired up with a sighted person in a given job where you know sight is
required. For instance, we needed to have dates read by sighted people when
we did the event in Orlando, and so we were teamed up with the people from
the F.F.A. Convention.
Cindy


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Thanks Darian for the email.  It is good to start discussions!
I don't know how I found out about the list, I think you told me about it at
some convention or something.  But not really sure...

As for the second question.  Well I have been pretty inactive lately in the
division and the list with unexpected life happenings and such getting in
the way.  But I do read what is on here, and am at a point where I can come
back here now.  What I am interested to see is what people are doing and how
they do it as a blind person.  For me personally, I am still in the process
of figuring out how to integrate activity with a group of sighted people.
One thing I have come across in doing volunteer or service projects is that
people go about doing their own thing and I am not sure where to ask for
help.  If things are not accessible to me as a blind person, which they tend
not to be, then I need someone who can see, but the sighted people have
their own jobs to do, so is it ok to pull them away from what they're doing?
This is an issue I am unclear on.  It is different in an employment
situation where there are requirements as far as accomodationsand such.  I
don't think this is the case for volunteer work, so what do we do?

I would love some discussion on this.

Also, I look on the list to see what direction the division is going in and
just to see how active it is.  
I wonder if you can post the mission and or goals of this division again.  I
think it is always good to refresh people's minds on the true focus of the
work.  And for people newer to the division may help clarify.  

Just my thoughts.

Anna E Givens


Hi fellow listers,

 figured that sense I noticed the list has been pretty quiet for a while,
that it would be a good idea to see if I  could help to liven things up a
bit.
 our list has a good number of folks on it.  I would  suspect that many of
us learned about the list via a friend, or the division meetings, or by any
number of different means. 
I also would  imagine that  everyone has a reason for hanging out on the
list (want to learn something, want to give something, etc).
 So I have two questions for your:
1. how?d you hear about the list?
2. what is it that you want to find out from other members of the list?
something you want to see the division do? something you would like to do?
 Thanks so much and I look forward to what you all have to say!
 Darian



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