[humanser] February "Braille Monitor"

[Merry Schoch]

I am so glad to hear you enjoy this list and I am sorry to hear you are
feeling unwelcomed in other areas of the NFB.  I am planning, if all goes as
I wish, in attending the World Blind Union conference this August and I am
sure I will learn a great deal and will be willing to share with all.
This is the firsddt time the conference has been held in the United States
and hopefully there will be a great deal of representation from our world.
May be this conference will be a catalyst to change attitudes regarding
blindness on a global level.

Peace,
Merry C. Schoch, LCSW



-----Original Message-----
From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of adrijana
prokopenko via humanser
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 10:18 AM
To: Human Services Division Mailing List
Cc: adrijana prokopenko
Subject: Re: [humanser] February "Braille Monitor"

Thanks, I enjoy being on this group and live in Macedonia, but have also
traveled to other places in the past, like North Cyprus, Romania, Poland,
Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and the US.
I contacted the NFB at the address they suggested, which is:
nfb at nfb.org
but no one replied to me on that. I also contacted some NFB individuals and
they suggested that I form an NFB branch in Macedonia, but I don't think I
could do it on my own and for this I need lots of help and support from
outside as well.

On 1/31/16, Sarah Meyer via humanser <humanser at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Adrijana,
> Thanks for your email. I'm sorry to hear that you feel you have not 
> been welcomed in all forums online all the time.  I hope that you have 
> felt comfortable here on our list.  What country do you live in again?
>  Have you contacted the national office of the National Federation of 
> the Blind to find out how you could become involved even though you 
> are overseas? I'm not really sure how that works so that's why I'm 
> suggesting contacting them.  I'm sure they would be happy to explain 
> how membership would work in that sense, too.
> Best of luck to you, and thanks for your contributions to the cause!
>
> Sarah
>
>> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:45:35 +0100
>> From: adrijana prokopenko <adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com>
>> To: humanser <humanser at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: [humanser] February "Braille monitor"
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>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  It seems like the February "Braille monitor" went out a few days 
>> earlier for those of us who recceive it by email. This issue was 
>> extremely comprahensive with regards to the work of the NFB and since 
>> I live in a different country than the US, I would also want to 
>> somehow put my own bit of things into the NFB. I am sure there are 
>> some very openminded people out there that receive us just as anyone 
>> else, but I am afraid to say that I have also experienced some harsh 
>> treatment online just because I live in a different country. If you 
>> think you can somehow help me improve this and make NFB members more 
>> comfortable when it comes to interacting with us, I would be glad to 
>> hear from you. I am sure there are some people here or others you 
>> know of that have traveled to different places and interact a lot 
>> with people from different parts of the world and could truly help 
>> the rest. If you would like to email me, my email address is:
>> adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com
>
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