[nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China
Mary Fernandez
trillian551 at gmail.com
Wed May 4 01:38:59 UTC 2011
Hi Crystal,
It's Mary Fernandez we met when you went to The atlanta convention.
The Matilda Ziegler magazine does still exist. One of my friends is a
writer for it.
I'll get in touch with you and see if I can help in anyway. I'm always
looking for great experiences for summers, so hopefully I can help.
Talk toyou soon.
Mary
On 5/3/11, Jing Crystal Wu 吴晶 <wujing19861209 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions. It's a great idea. I read both magazines myself
> as well. I am not sure if Matilda Ziegler still exist. I received an E-mail
> from Ruth Davis, former editor, last year, and she told me that the Ziegler
> family do not want to continue to sponsor the magazine anymore. Instead,
> they prefer to invest the money to Yale medical center to do research on eye
> disease related subject. Not sure if Gregory Evanina fought over the case. I
> visited their headquarter office in New York when I was 19 which was in
> 2007.
>
> I spoke to Gary a few times and had some contacts with him. I'll try to
> write an article about Bethel Home later for sure. Once again, your ideas
> are great! Thanks.
>
> Running around the world is pretty fun but get exhausted sometime. To adjust
> the jet lag several times a year is not that easy. Hope to see you at the
> NFB convention sometime. I am still deciding whether I should go this year
> or next.
>
> Regards,
> Crystal
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 10:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China
>
>
> Hi, Crystal.
>
> Good for you! I'm glad you're so active in helping blind children
> overseas live fully independent lives! Maybe a good idea would be
> to write up a little article about Bethel and the kids there to
> put in the Braille Monitor. I think by putting something in the
> Monitor, you would be reaching out to a lot of people who might
> be able and willing to help! It says in the magazine that
> articles for the Monitor can go to the editor, Gary Wunder, who
> happens to be on the Blind Talk list if you're on that. You can
> mail your article to: National Federation of the Blind, Attention
> Gary Wunder. 200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21230.
> You can also email your article to gwunder at nfb.org. You can go
> to www.nfb.org for more information. Hope this helps!
> P.S. You could also put an article in the Matilda Ziegler
> Magazine for the Blind, an independent magazine for the blind,
> not affiliated with any organization providing news, information,
> and commentary on the issues facing the blind. You can send an
> email to Ross Hammond, the editor of the Ziegler at
> editor at matildaziegler.com. You can check out
> www.matildaziegler.com to get more info!
> P.P.S. Please understand that I'm not affiliated in any way with
> neither the Monitor nor the Ziegler. I'm just a reader of both
> who thought these magazines might help you in your efforts.
>
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
> "A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jing Crystal Wu ?닸쇂<wujing19861209 at hotmail.com
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Tue, 3 May 2011 04:13:59 +0200
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China
>
> Dear Beth,
>
> I am teaching English at the center, and also doing project
> consultant work.
> So far, we have one mobility instructor from California, one
> multiple-disability educator from France, one blind Braille
> teacher, one
> music teacher, and five Chinese teachers. Of course, the
> orphanage have many
> care-givers, administraters, fund raisers, public relation
> manager and staff
> members. Bethel has foster care, education and self-care
> training for kids.
> Bethel even has its own farm field, so the kids can help to feed
> dogs,
> goats, chickens, ducks. Right now, I am trying to push to open
> up a job
> training course; however, I can't stay in Beijing for too long.
> If any of
> you is interested to do job training, counciling, independence
> training, I
> am sure you will be very helpful in Bethel.
>
> I must encourage kids to learn, to live and to travel
> independently. It'll
> be wonderful if we can something together. My skype is
> jing.wu.crystal
> MSN: wujing19861209 at hotmail.com
>
> Sincerely,
> Crystal
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beth" <thebluesisloose at gmail.com
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 3:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China
>
>
> Crystal,
> What can the folks at the CCB in Denver, Colorado do for the
> orphanage? What can any ordinary people do to help the kids? I
> am
> interested in helping blind people overseas too, but not China
> necessarily. But it's fascinating. Do you have Skype? Do
> write me
> off list at
> thebluesisloose at gmail.com
>
> Thank you,
> Beth Taurasi
>
> On 5/2/11, Jing Crystal Wu ?닸쇂
> <wujing19861209 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am currently working in an orphanage for the blind in Beijing.
> Bethel
> Home
> has 45 blind children, and it's a NGO orphanage run by a french
> couple.
> Just
> wonder if any students will be interested to do internship or
> volunteer
> work
> in Beijing. You may visit
> www.bethelchina.org
>
> Most of the kids speak English and Chinese. Many of the
> volunteers are
> from
> Europe and North America. Too bad I have to return to school in
> Stockholm
> this summer. Hope any of you can support and help the kids in
> any way you
> can. Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Crystal
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tina Hansen" <th404 at comcast.net
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Cc: "Correspondence Committee Mailing List"
> <nfb-editors at nfbnet.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:51 AM
> Subject: [nabs-l] Food for Thought: Presenting Our Message as
> Theater
>
>
> Not long ago, I learned that the Braille Institute in Los
> Angeles,
> California, produced a series of recordings called Sound
> Solutions. They
> present tools and techniques for coping with blindness and
> vision loss
> in
> a number of dramatic formats. I thought: it might be cool if we
> could do
> that. We do have a play at our National convention, but that's
> about it.
>
> I'm not sure if I agree with everything they present, but I
> still think
> we
>
> can learn from it. To get an idea of what they do, you can go
> to
>
> http://www.airsla.org/soundsolutions.asp
>
> The episodes cover topics such as: home management, coping
> skills, and
> many other topics, and with one exception, most of them are 30
> minutes
> or
> less.
>
> I'm presenting this for what it's worth, since I know that we
> have some
> creative people out there, and I also know that if we can
> present our
> message in a creative way, it might interest the younger
> generation.
> Check
>
> it out. Thanks.
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Mary Fernandez
President: Georgia Association of Blind Students
Emory University 2012
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