[Community-Service] Meet a Willing Worker: Yolanda Harris - Blindness Equality Achievement Month Day 08!

[Adrienne Nelson]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 10:03 AM Stacie Leap via Community-Service <
community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> We’re gonna saddle up and celebrate our 8th day! Say Howdy to our next
> Willing Worker, Yolanda Harris from Pilot Point, Texas
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> I want you to picture it. A small town called Pilot Point. It’s off a
> beaten path down in the southern living of Texas. You’re not going to find
> the Cheer’s bar there, but it’s definitely a place where everybody knows
> your name. Especially the name of Yolanda Harris! Let me tell you, this
> beautiful lady is a woman after our own hearts! Her whole family believes
> in lending a helping hand. If you had ever met her Mom, you’d know that she
> has never met a stranger! That giving-heart has trickled all the way down
> the family line to Miss Yolanda. She has been and continues to be, the
> voice for the elderly in her community. Before she lost her sight, she took
> people to their doctor’s appointments, ran errands for them, and assisted
> in any way that she could. Once useable vision was no longer an option for
> her, she kept reaching out to those in need and found other ways to be of
> help. Then, the world threw in a pandemic in 2019, that’s okay, she wasn’t
> going to let a virus stop her from serving the elderly in her neighborhood.
> She picked up the phone and discovered a safe way of giving back to her
> little town.
>
> The Lonestar NFB chapter already knows the unique spark Miss Yolanda
> brings to the table, as their Vice President. Now, our division gets to
> work alongside Miss Yolanda as one of our newest members!
>
> So, the next time a person tries to tell you that they don’t believe they
> can make much of a difference? I advise you to tell them to try and sleep
> with a tiny mosquito! Like Miss Yolanda, you can be the difference in
> someone’s life!
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Hip Hip Hootay Ms. Yolanda, you are so incredibly inspiring. What a
beautiful woman.
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