[Ct-nfb] Blind Babies and Our Purpose

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Justin ,
 
I agree  with the Federation regarding what you said in your email,  but 
this child lives in India and is a native of India.
 
I don't know if you have had the opportunity to ever had gone to India and  
experienced first hand the blind people in India, but I have.
 
There is 14.5 million blind people in India and the opportunity for the  
blind in India is far from what yu can imagine.  They are not taught to  
travel independently nor do they have the opportunity to even have a  cane.    
There isn't much opportunity for training of jobs.  
 
While I was there I had the chance of visiting some of the much better  
schools for the blind.  Some examples I can give is a school in  Mumbai  that 
had over 500 students living at the school and I visited their  computer lab. 
 They had 8 computers in there to train these 500 students  on.
 
While I was there I had to get special peermission which was made ahead of  
time to my arrival to travel with my guide dog.  I could not go in public  
tourist areas with her, but I was invited to the Capital in New Deli to have 
an  appointment with the Department of rehabilitation for the government in 
 India.
 
Mind you I was only allowed to visit the blind schools that the India  
government allowed me to visit along with members of the U.S. Embassy.
 
I totally understand the desperation of this Mother of this little boy  
seeking medical attention in the USA to save her child's sight.
 
I never had the chance to visit blind people that live in the villages that 
 are cared for by their family for all of their life.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 7/15/2013 1:24:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
PRESIDENT at alumni.ecu.edu writes:

Justin  

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