[il-talk] Fw: [blindkid] Malaysian Exchange Student

[Deborah Kent Stein]

-----Original Message----- 
From: David Andrews
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:26 AM
To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] Malaysian Exchange Student


>
>Hi David,
>I hope you can help me with some info about your NFB group and
>whether you might be able to help us to find a home for an exchange
>student, who is hoping to come to the USA on a Dept of State
>scholarship in Jan and stay through June. We have been searching
>unsuccessfully since Oct to find her a host family in a place where
>the school will accept her. This is made more difficult by the fact
>that she is blind. Although the school will be reimbursed for any
>extra cost the schools unfortunately are allowed to turn down
>students on J-1 visa's. I'm hoping that you might know of schools,
>anywhere in the country, that would welcome an international student
>that is blind and maybe a family that has a blind student of their
>own willing to enrich their lives by hosting her. We have tried and
>have run out of ideas for finding her a family and I found your
>website and thought maybe, just maybe, you could help us spread the
>word and find this girl a spot. Since schools will be closed for hte
>holidays very soon and she arrives in very early Jan. time is of the 
>essence.
>Thanks for any help you might offer and I'm sorry I didn't try
>searching support for the blind sooner.
>I attached some info on her that you ca forward and I copied the
>staff of AFS who are also working on this. The website below has
>info about AFS Intercultural programs and what we do.
>
>Robbin Lang
>AFS Northern Illinois Team
>Volunteer Hosting Coordinator
>630-879-3851 Home 630-346-4320 cell
>robbinlang at ameritech.net
>Meet More Students by entering your zip code: www.afsusa.org/host-family
>
>
>
>






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