[Nfb-hi] press release

[The Gabes]

Charlene
What time is the table schedule for at the windward mall borders store?
I'll be there. 
I can bring a slate and dymo tape and some spices or things that are labeled
in braille also
debbie

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From: nfb-hi-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-hi-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Charlene Ota
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:55 PM
To: nfb-hi at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfb-hi] press release

 Below is the press release for our Louis Braille birthday celebration on
January 4 at Borders Bookstore in Kaneohe.  I want to invite everyone to
come participate and join in the celebration.  Please let me know if you
will be able to come and what you'd like to do whether it be answer
questions, demonstrate something related to braille, etc. We'll just have a
table with a couple of chairs, so we want to have people available to write
people's names in braille on their alphabet cards, maybe show braille
lables, playing cards, other creative ways to use braille in our everyday
lives.  I look forward to seeing all of you there!
 
Charlene
 
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

Charlene Ota

Vice President,

National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii

(808) 224-1896

caota at hawaii.rr.com

National Federation of the Blind Celebrates Braille Literacy

The National Federation of the Blind of Hawai'i to Hold Event at Borders at
Windward

Mall in Kaneohe, January 4, 2009

:

 To promote Braille literacy and help celebrate the two-hundredth
anniversary of

the birth of Louis Braille (1809-1852), the inventor of the reading and
writing code

for the blind that bears his name,

The National Federation of the Blind of Hawai'i will visit Borders bookstore
at Windward

Mall at 2:00 p.m.,  on Sunday, January 4, 2009.  Members will distribute
Braille

alphabet cards and demonstrate Braille to interested parties.

"This event will not only provide a wonderful opportunity for local blind
persons

to interact with and get to know other members of the community, but will
also promote

awareness and understanding of the importance of Braille literacy," said
Charlene

Ota, president of the Anuenue Chapter.  "All members of the community, both
blind

and sighted, are encouraged to join us."

The events are being held nationwide as part of the National Federation of
the Blind's

Braille Readers are Leaders campaign, a national initiative to promote the
importance

of reading and writing Braille for blind children and adults.  The Braille
Readers

are Leaders campaign kicked off in July of 2008 with the unveiling of the
design

of a commemorative coin to be minted in 2009 in recognition of the
two-hundredth

anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille.  The commemorative coin will also
be previewed

at the events.

For more information about the Braille Readers are Leaders campaign, please
visit

www.braille.org

.  To find out about events in

Hawai'I, please contact Charlene Ota at 808-224-1896 e-mail

caota at hawaii.rr.com

.

 

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