[Nfbf-l] Fw: The blind in India

[Brooke Evans]

Interesting email and one that brought this question.  Do we by chance have in NFB doctors, blind or sighted, who might be strong advocates for these children of India who are blind through a connection with Doctors Without Borders?  bre 

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> On Feb 11, 2014, at 6:41 AM, "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a friend who is a sighted member our NFB chapter. She and her husband 
> are visiting India. This is what she ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Barbara Siry
> To: Sherri
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:10 AM
> Subject: The blind in India
> 
> 
> Hi Sherri,
> 
> 
> Not surprisingly, you see blind begging on the street.  One person I saw was 
> a young man who had a small child with him.  The child would point him 
> towards the tourists walking by so he could tell us how he was born blind.
> 
> 
> There are schools for the blind -- one called Happy Home: School for the 
> Blind.   I got a kick out of that one.   I also saw a wretched little street 
> store, standing by itself that read: Help for the blind.  It had a telephone 
> that I suppose a blind person would use to call someone.   No one was 
> manning it.
> 
> 
> There are actually more children born blind in India than anywhere else in 
> the world, often from cataracts.   They are left untreated most of them 
> because they're poor and there's really no health insurance.
> 
> 
> There's gotta be a better way than this to help them.
> 
> 
> Barbara
> 
> 
> 
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