[nabs-l] Lions Club

[Jedi]

The NFB asks for money to help the blind. But I think the difference is 
how blind people are portrayed in the asking. In our case, the blind 
are portrayed as competent and exciting people who need to have funding 
in order to create and sustain innovative programs to spread that 
competence and excitement throughout the blind masses. From what I've 
seen of the Lions Club adverts and materials, blindness is seen as an 
awful limitation that creates considerable disadvantages beyond what 
most of us would be willing to agree with. For example, I saw a 
commercial on TV advertising the Lions Clubs where this young girl goes 
in for eye surgery. At the end of the commercial, the announcer talks 
about how it's wonderful that this girl can now ride a bike and how 
terrible things would have been if she hadn't had the surgery provided 
by the club. To me, that's the difference.

What we need to do is to alert the Lions Clubs as to what they could do 
to help us by letting them know gently that their current tactics 
aren't working.

Respectfully,
Jedi
Original message:
> Well George I would respectfully disagree that the Lions Club has not 
> done much to help the blind. Many Lions have given scholarship to blind 
> students, supported many blind individuals to attend various 
> conferences and trainings and are the biggest funders of the Lions 
> World Services for the Blind in Little Rock Arkansas. Some may have 
> negative oppinion and frankly I have personally witnessed somethings 
> that LWSB could do better, yet its fair to say that LWSB has given 
> opportunities to many blind people for independent training and get 
> training for a job. So the Lions have done alot of good for the blind. 
> Infact they have done more for the blind not being a blind organization 
> then any other not blind organization. NFB and ACB are blind 
> organizations run by the blind and for the blind so yes they have and 
> will do more for the blind then Lions or any other organizations. I 
> would join one because of the work they do, but I can not support 
> something that
>  requires asking for money to help the blind.
> 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


> --- On Wed, 9/8/10, Jorge Paez <jorgeapaez at mac.com> wrote:

>> From: Jorge Paez <jorgeapaez at mac.com>
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Lions Club
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 1:56 PM
>> 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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