[Ct-nfb] Blind Babies and Our Purpose

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Hello, I hear everything you've said, but the child is about to get duel  
citzenship so he's going to have a lot of opportunities adn then all can be 
so.  Thank you Elizabeth
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/15/2013 7:57:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Blindhands at aol.com writes:

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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