[Travelandtourism] White cane safety day

[cheryl echevarria]

We just came back from the 1st even Travel & Tourism Fundraiser, over 24 people from NFB and not NFB, went to the Las Vegas and the Parks of Utah, and yes the parks were opened, Utah, Nevada, even here in NY, broke the lines and decided to open the National Parks in there own state.
 
We did not see the Grand Canyon, but were able to enjoy such state parks as Snow Canyon in St. Georges, Zion and Bryce Canyon, as well as some other places, that we wouldn't have witnessed if we did our original trip. I will be posting information on the trip, as well as videos and photos that we took and will be on the NFB Travel & Tourism Website, also writing up a story for the Braille Monitor and the meet the blind month, so stayed tuned and thank you for posting this.
 
Cheryl Echevarria 


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> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:28:31 +0200
> From: adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com
> To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Travelandtourism] White cane safety day
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>  I hope there will be events in other parts of the world to mark the
> day. Today many blind people gathered down town where I am, with white
> canes in their hands making a long walk from the center to another
> part of town. We also got the media covering the event and we then
> gathered at a disability organization where my students gave a
> performance and the priminister of labor and a few professors from the
> special education department from a local university also gave their
> speeches. There was also a promotion of a book by a blind author which
> died a few years ago. The extracts from the book described events from
> his life and they seemed pretty accurate to us blind people, but the
> critics of the editor were not that good at all. To them, it sounded
> as if this book was subjective and describing imagionary things that
> only blind people think of and it is too bad they didn't leave a
> session for questions and answers after that, so we could also voice
> what we wanted to say.
> 
>  I was also wondering if the NFB cooperates to white cane factories
> from around the world. I am asking, because most of the canes made
> nowadays are produced in Asia and the ones that are donated to
> blindness organizations like hours are usually canes used to warn
> drivers that the person is blind or canes that are not right for our
> hight. Not a single cane of those has a cane tip, which makes them not
> useable, which is extremely unfortunate.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Adrijana
> 
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