[Ct-nfb] Blind Babies and Our Purpose

[Hamit Campos]

Also, the way I looked at it is if we can preserve what little site he may
have left, then why not? I agree with you Justin in that it's not the end of
the world if he does loose it, but let's try and keep it. What[s more, I
guess it doesn't go well in India for blind people.

 

From: Ct-nfb [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Blindhands at aol.com
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 7:57 PM
To: ct-nfb at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Blind Babies and Our Purpose

 

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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