<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">This is the description of the latest episode of Cool Blind Tech Podcast, featuring Project Starfish. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><div style="text-align: start; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shaun Preece</span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We all know that unemployment is an issue in the blind community, and with this can come issues of low self esteem, poor social inclusion and of course financial problems. In this Spotlight interview Garth talks to Subhashish Acharya and Amanda Heal from <a href="http://www.pstarfish.org/" style="text-decoration: none !important;">Project Starfish.</a>This international movement aims to allow blind / disabled people to learn, earn and grow while also building an understanding with businesses of what talents we have to offer. Here's a little excerpt from their website.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Project Starfish is entirely a new socio-economic business model, that intends to reduce the rate of unemployment among the blind/disabled. It is scalable, repeatable, predictable, results driven and the more we do it creates business impact and social impact simultaneously. It creates new jobs that never existed, it helps expand the country’s economy, also expands the number of jobs in the arena of blind workers which never existed.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At Project Starfish here is what we do :</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We groom and create highly employable, multi-experienced, multi skilled, business ready blind professionals. They come in with half a page of resume and leave with Experience, Recommendation, Hands on Learning, Management skills and of course money!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is a very worthwhile project and all of us at Cool Blind Tech send our respect and thanks to all those involved.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><font color="#000000" style="text-decoration: none !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/coolblindtech/SPT-010-Project_Starfish_Learn_Earn_And_Grow.mp3" style="text-decoration: none !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Click here to download Project Starfish. Learn, Earn And Grow.</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Enjoy CBT on Demand by subscribing below</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px !important;"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/cool-blind-techpodcast/id618708871" style="text-decoration: none !important;">Subscribe with iTunes.</a> <a href="http://coolblindtech.com/podcast?format=rss" style="text-decoration: none !important;">Subscribe with RSS Feed.</a></span></font></p><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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 have the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back. <a href="http://NFB.ORG">NFB.ORG</a></span></div></body></html>