[nabs-l] Lions Club

[autTeal Bloodwortho]

i really don't think that anybody no matter the organization will ever 
change the steriotype that we all live with everyday. I attended guiding 
eyes for the blind in order to get my guide dog and that happens to be a 
lions club profited affiliation. Also indirectly the lions club has actually 
been really supportive since my injury but i usually had to go through a 
doctor of mine to get the help.

As for the NFB, i am one of the unfortionate ones that doesnt get to go to 
the conferences. Not just because of money but rather i cant just drop 
everything for a weekend away; i have too many responsibilities.

        Teal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jorge Paez" <jorgeapaez at mac.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Lions Club


> Anmol:
> Yes, it bothers me much--though I don't have a Walmart, I've seen that 
> sort of stuff.
> Not to be harsh,
> but what has the "Lions Club" ever done for the blind?
>
> The NFB has done a noticable much more.
>
> Sorry if I'm being critical but I've never seen a blind person talk to me 
> about "how good the Lion Club was."
>
> They help, I know, but never the blind, not in my experience.
>
>
> Jorge
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Anmol Bhatia wrote:
>
>> Does it bother any of you when the Lions Club sit in frunt of Walmart and 
>> ask for money to help the blind? This has been something that has 
>> bothering me for a long time and mostly the reason why I have not joined 
>> one. Lions do a lot of good for the blind and I have been lucky to speak 
>> to a few Lions Clubs, but helping the blind in expense of reinforcing the 
>> sterotype that society has about the blind to me does not really helpful 
>> to our well being and holds us back in society. Its been something that 
>> has been bugging me for years, but I was not sure if it is just me or if 
>> there are other blind individuals who feel the same. I finally decide to 
>> ask when a friend of mine who has mentioned about joing a organization 
>> for the blind said that she going to get involved in the Lions club and 
>> sit in frunt of Walmart. It would be interesting to hear what everyone 
>> has to think about this.
>>
>> Anmol
>>
>>
>> I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps 
>> there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a 
>> breeze among flowers.
>> Hellen Keller
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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