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<div class="rss_description" style="margin: 0 0 0.3em; padding: 0;"><p class=""><b class="">By Aaron Bigler Lefebvre,</b> AmeriCorps VISTA member</p>
<figure data-orig-width="1280" data-orig-height="1600" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://67.media.tumblr.com/b805bc81d83949a5d74ff5e248447c71/tumblr_inline_oazppcg58h1spgs8j_540.jpg" alt="image" data-orig-width="1280" data-orig-height="1600" class=""></figure><!-- more --><p class="">When attending Pre-Service Orientation (PSO), members in the
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poverty, about generational poverty, about urban and rural poverty, and so
forth. During this training, facilitators ask their groups to form a circle to
discuss what poverty means to them. They’re asked: what does poverty look like
to you?</p><p class="">The answers would no doubt surprise you, and would
undoubtedly provoke the conscience to consider unknown situations. As a new AmeriCorps
VISTA, when I was asked this question of what poverty looks like, the
realization arrived that it was the situation in which I’d been living, though
it might not look like the poverty you’re picturing.</p>
<blockquote class=""><p class=""><b class="">They’re asked: what does poverty look like to you?</b></p><p class=""><b class="">The answers would no doubt surprise you.</b></p>
</blockquote><p class="">I have a low-vision blindness disability that I developed at
the age of 19. I’m a white, middle-class male.
A Boy Scout who has always done well in school. Well enough even to earn
two English degrees while adapting to a newly acquired low-vision
disability. </p><p class="">After graduating from Rutgers University in Camden, NJ with
an MFA in Creative Writing, I began a job search. I searched. I searched some
more. I had many interviews. Some, I was unqualified for, while others, I was
more than qualified for. On occasion, I was dismissed because I had to disclose
my disability. Yes, it’s illegal, but you know what? They gave me the
run-around anyway. Why? Because like with many people who experience poverty on
one level or another, I didn’t have the resources to do anything about it. </p><p class="">I began looking for simpler work so that I could pay for my
bills, but I realized that wasn’t an easier task because many jobs that require
low skill-sets require good vision capabilities. Imagine for a moment, what it
might be like to count money without sight, to mop a dirty floor without sight,
to operate a ride-sharing service without sight. The jobs that many take for
granted and even turn their nose up toward can be entirely out of reach for
persons with certain disabilities. Time and time again, I’d heard the word “no”
and “disability” and eventually started to believe that I was unable, that I
really couldn’t do, that it didn’t matter how much education I had because no
one seemed to believe that I had the ability to do the work I thought I could
do. </p>
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The jobs that many take for granted and even turn their nose up toward can be entirely out of reach for persons with certain disabilities.
</b><br class=""></p></blockquote><p class="">With all of these forces working against me, I began
thinking of other options, which ultimately lead to the AmeriCorps VISTA
program. There, I could gain valuable professional experience without fear of
rejection based on discrimination, and I’d be helping others in the community
gain their own footing as well. </p><p class=""><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwNzI4LjYyMDY1MTkxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDcyOC42MjA2NTE5MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MDk0MTM1JmVtYWlsaWQ9cHJlc2lkZW50QG5mYmNvbW11bml0eXNlcnZpY2Uub3JnJnVzZXJpZD1wcmVzaWRlbnRAbmZiY29tbXVuaXR5c2VydmljZS5vcmcmZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&104&&&http://nwwpa.org/" target="_blank" class="">NeighborWorks Western Pennsylvania</a> was looking for an
AmeriCorps VISTA member to evaluate and redevelop their program delivery model
by holding internal interviews, creating client-facing surveys, developing new
education and training materials, and implementing a client triage system that
would improve the capacity for ensuring client success. </p><p class="">I applied, interviewed, accepted an offer, and went off to AmeriCorps
VISTA Pre-Service Orientation the week before starting my assignment. It was
there that, suddenly, the challenges I’d been facing were described and placed
into my hands. There, I trained for a full year of service as an AmeriCorps
VISTA member who would help combat the many faces of poverty that threaten to
degrade society and remove many from opportunity. </p><p class="">Now in the final stages of my AmeriCorps VISTA project, after
working with staff members, attending training sessions and conferences,
developing training manuals, workshop materials, client triage protocols, procedures,
surveys, outreach materials, and gaining the trust and appreciation of
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I have done, and I will do more. </p>
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I am able, I can do, I have done, and I will do more.
</b></p></blockquote><p class="">In the face of an impoverished lifestyle of living on
nothing but Social Security disability and SNAP benefits, I’ve shown myself and
the world that the word “disability” is a word often reserved for nothing
better than demotivating a differently-abled individual. Through AmeriCorps VISTA,
I learned that individuals living with disabilities bring fresh perspectives,
new ideas, new culture, and new levels of awareness. All of which aid in
improving others and organizations.</p><p class="">As both an impoverished individual and an AmeriCorps VISTA
working to reduce the effects of poverty in my community, I can say that the
VISTA program is indispensable to those without opportunity who need a chance
to show what they’re capable of. Without AmeriCorps VISTA, I may never have found
the opportunity I needed to show myself and others that I have the potential for
making a difference that can change the community and help those in need.</p><p class="">
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<div class=""><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Darian Smith</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">President, National Federation of the Blind Community Service Division</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Web: <a href="http://www.nfbcommunityservice.org" class="">www.nfbcommunityservice.org</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Twitter: @NFBCSDivision,@goldengateace</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Facebook: search for “National Federation of the Blind Community Service Division"</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="">E-mail: <a href="mailto:president@nfbcommunityservice.org" class="">president@nfbcommunityservice.org</a></span></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">(415)215-9809</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">blindness is not what holds you back.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> “We need your service, right now, at this moment - our moment - in history. I'm not going to tell you what your role should be; that's for you to discover. But I am going to ask you to play your part; ask you to stand up; ask you to put your foot firmly into the current of history” — Barack Obama </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> Help drive change for the blind .</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Donate your car to the National Federation of the Blind today!</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; color: rgb(87, 86, 214); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(87, 86, 214);" class="">For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.carshelpingtheblind.org/" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class="">www.carshelpingtheblind.org</span></a> or call 1-855-659-9314</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</div></div>
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