[Community-service] Discussion starter

[Marianne Denning]

I think it is important that we give back to the whole community. Blind
people have a lot to offer to our world. I am a volunteer with a high
school international exchange program. I have hosted 13 students from
around the world. These students have lived in our home and attended our
local high school. I have learned a lot about other countries while these
students have been in our home. I have never heard that I should only help
the blind community. I do that also but I am so much more than my blindness.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Darian Smith, President, National
Federation of the Blind Community Service Division via Community-Service <
community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>  Just figured I would put this out there to get  some debate going.
>  In a general  sense, the definition of community service can basically be
> boiled down to doing something for the benefit of a group of persons.
>  In the NFB, we might consider community service  as anything we can do
> for the benefit of blind people, both within our membership and outside of
> it.
>  In the Community Service Division, we tend to look at community service
> as a thing that a blind person might do that would benefit the larger
> community, not just other blind folks.
>  We believe this distinction is important to make because often society
> believes that the only way that a blind person  can do good  is  if they
> are doing that  good within the bounds of blindness and the blind community.
>  Do you agree with this assertion? Disagree? why or why not?
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
(513) 607-6053
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