[Mdabs] Bring your Old Braille Books to the Maryland Braille Challenge

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hello Everyone,

 

As many of you know, the Maryland Regional Braille Challenge will take place
at MSB on Saturday, February 8th. Along with the myriad opportunities to
network with other parents, teachers and blind adults at this event, I would
like to also make it an opportunity for our younger blind children to expand
their Braille book collections.

 

I have an extensive library of Braille books which I have collected over the
years, but have now outgrown. In an effort to pay it forward to the
up-and-coming generation of blind people, I am bringing many of these books
to the Braille Challenge and donating them to anyone who would be interested
in giving them a home. I would like to invite you to do the same. We are
setting up a table in MSB's Campbell Gym where anyone who has books they
would like to donate can drop them off. During their time in the exhibit
hall, we invite parents and students to browse through the collection and
pick up any book(s) they might want. They can then take those books home
with them for their reading pleasure.

 

As has been so often repeated in the blindness field of late, we are
currently in a "book famine." Braille books are scarce and young Braille
readers are left with only a small number of available pleasure reading
material. When I was a new Braille reader, I was very enthusiastic about
this newfound literacy and read anything I could put my hands on. I have met
and worked with many young blind children in the past few years who have the
same passion for literacy that I did, but who are longing for
age-appropriate Braille books for them to read for pleasure. Therefore, I
hope you will join me in keeping the spirit of literacy alive. If you have
any children's Braille books which are no longer being read, please bring
them to the Braille Challenge and donate them to our free library. Once at
the Challenge, just drop your books off at the designated table in Campbell
Gym during the registration period. Please spread the word to any
parents/teachers you know who will be there. I hope to see many of you-and
your books-at the Maryland Braille Challenge on February 8.

 

Thank you,

 

Chris Nusbaum

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