[GreaterPhilly] Visiting the US

[adrijana prokopenko]

 That's nice you are helping them. in my country we have nothing
available to buy blindness wise. I got a couple of braille, large
print and twin books for my students from friends. it is also bad
because if a brailler brakes we don't have specialized services to
repare them, spare parts to get and all that so it is really
frustrating. if you ever want to come to my country and visit me and
my school, think it would be great. That way you would get to know us
and find out how we work.

 I host a few facebook groups ad well and am surprised that Americans
don't know much about what they can get. Many of them seem afraid to
reach for help too because they haven't accepted their blindness. Some
people tell me that I know more than them about resources than they
themselves know.

 Hope you have a nice day,

 Adrijana

On 5/16/23, Yvonne Hughes via GreaterPhilly <greaterphilly at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Good afternoon. Thank you so much for reaching back to me. One of the things
> that I do is I try to make things really big so that I can feel it as well
> as get my children to do so. I am a community outreach person now, I came
> out of the classroom because I thought I was needed more in the community to
> let people know the resources that were available to them in our city. Many
> individuals with disabilities as well as blind are not even aware of all the
> things that are available to them. We also have people that make things so
> that teaching becomes a little bit easier when you’re able to put something
> together with rays writing and things like that. We have a company here in
> Philadelphia that does raise writing with a pen and it’s on a paper that you
> put on your cell. If you have some things that you know that you can use and
> we’re able to send some things as a teacher, please reach out to me and let
> me know how I can better serve you so that it makes teaching a little bit
> more comfortable. Thank you so much for just allowing me to be in friendship
> with you and conversation about things that we can do to help each other as
> teachers. Have a blessed day  and a blessed trip
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 15, 2023, at 8:12 AM, adrijana prokopenko via GreaterPhilly
>> <greaterphilly at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Ivonne,
>>
>> Thanks for writing back to me. I was actually in Philadelphia in
>> 98-99, studying blindness courses at the international program of the
>> Overbrook school for the blind. It was a very memorable time for me
>> and it helped me gain some great skills I would have never gained back
>> in my country. Blindness wise, things are extremely hard in Macedonia
>> in every way, even though so much time has passed after that, but I
>> hope that with lots of good work from great people many things will
>> improve, if not for us, for the generations that are coming after us.
>>
>> I teach English in a school for blind children and there is not a lot
>> here when it comes to support, resources, etc, so I mostly braille all
>> that I need to braille for myself and my students on the brailler. No
>> one even heard of rehab workers, braille transcribers and such
>> professions here, so I guess we do whatever we can to help our
>> students. What do you teach and how do you help students there?
>>
>> Adrijana
>>
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