[nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China

Wed May 18 09:35:13 UTC 2011

June 12 or 13 sounds good.
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, 5/18/11, Jing Crystal Wu 吴晶 <wujing19861209 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jing Crystal Wu 吴晶 <wujing19861209 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 4:20 AM
> Dear Anmol,
> 
> Great to hear from you. Yes, I heard of both Mobility
> International and 
> Braille without border. In fact, I was in touch with both
> of these 
> organizations. I have to go to Beijing city on May 27. I
> guess sometime in 
> June will be a lot better. Probably sometime like June 10
> or even 11, 12. 
> What do you think?
> 
> Regards,
> Crystal
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Anmol Bhatia" <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in
> China
> 
> 
> > Hello Crystal,
> > Good to see you on here as well. Have you heard of
> Mobility Inter 
> > National? It is a international clearinghouse for
> people with 
> > disabilities. Along with promoting study abroad
> opportunities for youth 
> > with disabilities in the United States and helping
> international students 
> > with disabilities studying in the United States, they
> also do 
> > international development work to assist people with
> disabilities in 
> > developing countries.
> > You should visit their webcite at
> > www.miusa.org
> >
> > Come on MSN messenger so that we can catch up. We have
> alot to talk about.
> > 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 Tue, 5/3/11, Jing Crystal Wu 吴晶 <wujing19861209 at hotmail.com>
> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> From: Jing Crystal Wu 吴晶 <wujing19861209 at hotmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind
> orphans in China
> >> To: "National Association of Blind Students
> mailing list" 
> >> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> >> Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:14 PM
> >> 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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