[Community-service] Meet the Blind Month

[Ericka]

So many wonderful ideas! I have a lot of work before I can arrange anything like this. In my community in Wisconsin the PR person at the ADRC – aging and disability resource center doesn't even know about the white cane law. She's been working there for 10 years so I can't understand why she never heard of it. That explains why they are so backwards here in thinking people with disabilities deserve more than Group homes and workshop related jobs.

Ericka Short
"Friends are like flowers in the garden of life"

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> On Oct 8, 2015, at 6:09 PM, Jonathan Franks via Community-service <community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Darian and all,
> 
> The Austin, Texas Chapter will be holding numerous events during Meet
> the Blind Month.
> 
> We will be having a table at the Arts Market that is held near the
> University of Texas Campus on October 17th. We have numerous NFB
> literature, Braille writing tools such as a Braille Writer, different
> Slate and Styluses. Braille Alphabet Cards, and demonstrations of the
> KNFB reader and other NFB Aps. Also, we bring sleep shades and give
> our sighted friends the opportunity to learn how to properly use a
> long white cane.
> 
> Members of the NFB Austin Chapter will be volunteering in manning the
> NFB of Texas newsline table talking about newsline and signing people
> up during White Cane Day on October 14th.
> 
> On October 26th, we will be holding the second Annual NFB Austin
> Birthday Wagon Halloween party at the Salvation Army children's
> Shelter. This event is where we put on a mass birthday party for all
> of the children that are having a birthday in October and all the
> other children in the shelter. Birthday gifts are boughten and donated
> to the children, cupcakes are made, goody bags are put together,
> numerous tables are manned by our chapter members that will include a
> pumpkin decorating table, Halloween mask decorating, playdough, a
> bingo table where parents will play bingo in order to attempt to win
> prizes for their kids.
> 
> The two weekends prior to the event chapter members get together to
> put together the goody bags and we all decorate the cupcakes with
> Halloween themed candy and frosting the day before the event.
> 
> I look forward to reading about what other people have to say about
> what their chapters are doing for Meet the Blind Month!
> 
> Warm Regards,
> 
> Jonathan Franks
> 
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