[NationalHarbor] Fwd: [NFB-Maryland] ACTION ALERT - Blind Vendors Need Our Help!

[Amber Woods]

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From: president--- via NFB-Maryland <nfb-maryland at nfbnet.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:58 PM
Subject: [NFB-Maryland] ACTION ALERT - Blind Vendors Need Our Help!
To: <nfb-maryland at nfbnet.org>


Please find below a note from our Maryland Association of Blind Merchants
President Melba Taylor.  Please, please, please take the action she and
NABM is requesting – I promise it’ll take less than five minutes!



Yours,

Ronza





*Ronza Othman, *President

National Federation of the Blind of Maryland

443-426-4110





 MABM Members and Supporters,



Thanks to those of you who submitted letters a few weeks ago.  However the
Randolph Sheppard Program was not specifically included in the C3 federal
stimulus package. Therefore we are submitting more letters as part of our
efforts to be included in the next stimulus package.  Please see the below
letter from NABM President, Nicky Gacos and click on this link to submit
your letters:

https://blindmerchantsspeakout.org/alert/-urge_congress_to_appropriate_funds_to_help_blind_vendors/message/congress/write?style=webform



Please contact me if you need assistance or have any questions.



*Melba J. Taylor *

*Maryland Association of Blind Merchants
                         *

*Phone: 240-381-1637*

*Email: m.taylor at EncoreAssoc.com <m.taylor at EncoreAssoc.com>    *



__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Dear NABM Member:



As you know, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on our blind
entrepreneurs.
Approximately 75% of our blind entrepreneurs have seen their businesses
either shut completely down or seriously curtailed.  Congress has provided
some relief for small businesses but the Randolph-Sheppard Program is
unique.  We need to let Congress know that more needs to be done to assist
our hard working men and women who feed our government employees every day.


Please click on the link below and send letters to the President, both of
your U.S. Senators, and your Member in the House of Representatives.  The
Randolph-Sheppard Act authorizes Congress to appropriate funds for the
Randolph-Sheppard Program.  It never has.  We are asking Congress for the
first time to appropriate dollars that can be used to provide relief for
our displaced blind entrepreneurs and emergency funding to the states so
they can meet their responsibilities as the state licensing agencies.  Go
to:
https://blindmerchantsspeakout.org/alert/-urge_congress_to_appropriate_funds_to_help_blind_vendors/message/congress/write?style=webform



It is simple.  Just put in your name and address, click on
“Preview Message” and then hit “Submit” and your letters will be sent.  Act
now and let the collective voices of the blind be heard.



Sincerely,



Nicky Gacos, President



*The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create
obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you
want; blindness is not what holds you back.*


















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