[BlindKid] I would like to post this about Rene Donalvo Carlson's gift to us

[Carol Castellano]

Very nice!!!

Carol Castellano
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 9:39 AM Jane Osburn via BlindKid <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Time to Read, Time Together, Time to Read Together!
> Thank you Renee Donalvo Carlson!
> by Jane Osburn and Scott Wales
>
> On the last day of Bell Camp, in August 2017, we all gathered at the
> NFB building in Baltimore. I walked across the room to where Renee
> Donalvo Carlson was working at a small table. I’d known Renee since
> earlier in the summer when her husband Don volunteered to drive the
> group of campers from our area to and from the Bell Camp at the
> Glendale campus. I mentioned that we were trying to help our son Paul
> find new friends, and Renee quickly suggested that she would like to
> start up monthly tutoring sessions with Paul and Luis, who Paul had
> befriended at Bell. From that day on, until the pandemic hit, the
> group met almost every month to practice Braille, share some treats,
> and have a fun time together.
>
> Since March of this year, Paul has been reading Braille with Renee
> three times a week, for thirty minutes, over the phone.  Thank you,
> Renee, for this enormous gift of your time, knowledge, patience and
> good cheer!
>
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