[nabs-l] Martin Luther King Junior Day of service.

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi all,
Speaking of service, I'm just wondering if anyone has had any
difficult experiences persuading people that you could still
participate in service activities in spite of blindness? If something
like this came up how did you handle it and were you successful in
advocating to be included in the activity?
As some of you know, some blind friends and I had a not-so-good
experience a few years ago when we tried to prepare a meal for folks
at Ronald McDonald House. The house manager sent someone to supervise
us, and was upset that we did not bring a sighted companion with us. I
was even told that our arrival without a sighted companion had
inconvenienced them more than it had helped them, despite the
substantial monetary donation we made to them in buying the food.
I also have a blind friend who tried to volunteer at a horseback
riding place (ironically, one that provided therapeutic horse riding
to children with disabilities). She wanted to help with grooming and
caring for the horses, and was refused because of blindness.
I hate to be so negative as it is great to see so many folks who have
successfully participated in community service. But unfortunately
discrimination does still happen. How do we overcome it and continue
to show our communities that we are capable of giving back and want to
do so?
Arielle

On 1/20/13, Greg Aikens <gpaikens at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yea APO!  I'm an APO alum and had tons of wonderful community service
> experiences with them in college.
>
> The elementary school I work at now is having a day of service tomorrow by
> inviting teachers, students, and families to come clean up the road that
> runs by our school.  It should be a great way to reach out to the
> neighborhoods around the school.  I plan to participate, especially since I
> am a resident of one of those neighborhoods. :)
>
> Enjoy your day of service.
>
> -Greg
>
> On Jan 19, 2013, at 10:09 PM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a member of a co-ed service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.  It's
>> one of the largest international fraternal groups and is based on the
>> service principles of the boy and girl scouts organizations.
>> Typically we have our meetings on Sunday nights, but our president had
>> the same idea as you and decided to schedule our first meeting of the
>> year, where the majority of our service for this semester will be
>> discussed and voted on, for MLK day.  Although we won't necessarioly
>> be doing service yet, MLK day will be when we do the planning to set
>> up the next three months of volunteer work.
>>
>> On 1/19/13, Darian <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey folks,
>>> Being an alumnus of AmeriCorps, I firmly believe that Martin Luther King
>>> Junior's birthday (holiday)  Is a date on, not a day off.
>>> This being said, I have every intention of going out and being real  deep
>>> in
>>> community service activities.
>>>
>>> Do you all have any such plans? And if so, what are they?
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Kaiti
>>
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