From marsha.drenth at gmail.com Sun Feb 23 12:13:48 2020 From: marsha.drenth at gmail.com (Marsha Drenth) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 07:13:48 -0500 Subject: [NFB-DB] NFB DeafBlind mentor and mentee program for 2020 National Convention in Houston Texas Message-ID: <7832AA40-FA4E-42DA-8BD1-40B16CE1024A@gmail.com> Please share far and wide! The National Federation of the Blind DeafBlind division Mentoring/Mentee program. Are you a person who is both blind and has a hearing loss, has attended many national conventions and would like to mentor other persons who are DeafBlind? Are you a DeafBlind person who would like to teach others about hearing loss and how they live their life successfully? Are you a DeafBlind person who will be attending the convention for the first time but has never experienced such a gathering? Are you a DeafBlind person who would like to learn from other DeafBlind persons on how they get food in a large hotel without assistance, find their room, check in to the hotel, browse the tables in the exhibit hall, and or navigate the hotel lobby? Well then you have come to the write place, The NFB DeafBlind division is coordinating a mentoring and mentee program just designed for those who are DeafBlind who will be attending this year?s 2020 National convention in Houston Texas. Below are applications for becoming a mentor and being a mentee. DeafBlind individuals who have been to a national convention in the past will be paired up with persons who are first time convention attendees and who are new to hearing loss. If your willing or in need of this program, please fill out the applications below and send to the email address listed on the application. For any questions please emamarsha.drenth at gmail.com Marsha Drenth 1St Vice President National Federation of the Blind DeafBlind Division -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Braille Monitor mentoring-mentee 02-2020.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 20061 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NFB-DB Form Mentee December 2019.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 27251 bytes Desc: not available URL: From delcenia at prodigy.net Fri Feb 28 21:00:10 2020 From: delcenia at prodigy.net (delcenia at prodigy.net) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:00:10 -0500 Subject: [NFB-DB] national convention in Houston TX References: <009801d5ee7a$11262130$33726390$.ref@prodigy.net> Message-ID: <009801d5ee7a$11262130$33726390$@prodigy.net> Hello to all, I am currently working on the schedule to attend the National Convention. Do we know at this time what days we are planning to do any of the deaf blind activities? The convention is from July 14 to July 19 and I was wondering are we planning on doing the activities on the 14 and 15? Thanks Delcenia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: