[nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China

Chris Nusbaum dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
Tue May 3 20:13:12 UTC 2011 

Hi, Crystal.

Good for you! I'm glad you're so active in helping blind children 
overseas live fully independent lives! Maybe a good idea would be 
to write up a little article about Bethel and the kids there to 
put in the Braille Monitor.  I think by putting something in the 
Monitor, you would be reaching out to a lot of people who might 
be able and willing to help! It says in the magazine that 
articles for the Monitor can go to the editor, Gary Wunder, who 
happens to be on the Blind Talk list if you're on that.  You can 
mail your article to: National Federation of the Blind, Attention 
Gary Wunder.  200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21230.  
You can also email your article to gwunder at nfb.org.  You can go 
to www.nfb.org for more information.  Hope this helps!
P.S.  You could also put an article in the Matilda Ziegler 
Magazine for the Blind, an independent magazine for the blind, 
not affiliated with any organization providing news, information, 
and commentary on the issues facing the blind.  You can send an 
email to Ross Hammond, the editor of the Ziegler at 
editor at matildaziegler.com.  You can check out 
www.matildaziegler.com to get more info!
P.P.S.  Please understand that I'm not affiliated in any way with 
neither the Monitor nor the Ziegler.  I'm just a reader of both 
who thought these magazines might help you in your efforts.


Chris Nusbaum

"A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp Abilities motto)

----- Original Message -----
From: Jing Crystal Wu 吴晶<wujing19861209 at hotmail.com
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 3 May 2011 04:13:59 +0200
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China

Dear Beth,

I am teaching English at the center, and also doing project 
consultant work.
So far, we have one mobility instructor from California, one
multiple-disability educator from France, one blind Braille 
teacher, one
music teacher, and five Chinese teachers.  Of course, the 
orphanage have many
care-givers, administraters, fund raisers, public relation 
manager and staff
members.  Bethel has foster care, education and self-care 
training for kids.
Bethel even has its own farm field, so the kids can help to feed 
dogs,
goats, chickens, ducks.  Right now, I am trying to push to open 
up a job
training course; however, I can't stay in Beijing for too long.  
If any of
you is interested to do job training, counciling, independence 
training, I
am sure you will be very helpful in Bethel.

I must encourage kids to learn, to live and to travel 
independently.  It'll
be wonderful if we can something together.  My skype is
jing.wu.crystal
MSN: wujing19861209 at hotmail.com

Sincerely,
Crystal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beth" <thebluesisloose at gmail.com
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 3:57 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Volunteer to help blind orphans in China


 Crystal,
 What can the folks at the CCB in Denver, Colorado do for the
 orphanage?  What can any ordinary people do to help the kids?  I 
am
 interested in helping blind people overseas too, but not China
 necessarily.  But it's fascinating.  Do you have Skype?  Do 
write me
 off list at
 thebluesisloose at gmail.com

 Thank you,
 Beth Taurasi

 On 5/2/11, Jing Crystal Wu 吴晶 
<wujing19861209 at hotmail.com> wrote:
 Dear all,

 I am currently working in an orphanage for the blind in Beijing.  
Bethel
 Home
 has 45 blind children, and it's a NGO orphanage run by a french 
couple.
 Just
 wonder if any students will be interested to do internship or 
volunteer
 work
 in Beijing.  You may visit
 www.bethelchina.org

 Most of the kids speak English and Chinese.  Many of the 
volunteers are
 from
 Europe and North America.  Too bad I have to return to school in 
Stockholm
 this summer.  Hope any of you can support and help the kids in 
any way you
 can.  Thanks.

 Sincerely,
 Crystal
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Tina Hansen" <th404 at comcast.net
 To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
 <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Cc: "Correspondence Committee Mailing List" 
<nfb-editors at nfbnet.org
 Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:51 AM
 Subject: [nabs-l] Food for Thought: Presenting Our Message as 
Theater


 Not long ago, I learned that the Braille Institute in Los 
Angeles,
 California, produced a series of recordings called Sound 
Solutions.  They
 present tools and techniques for coping with blindness and 
vision loss
 in
 a number of dramatic formats.  I thought: it might be cool if we 
could do
 that.  We do have a play at our National convention, but that's 
about it.

 I'm not sure if I agree with everything they present, but I 
still think
 we

 can learn from it.  To get an idea of what they do, you can go 
to

 http://www.airsla.org/soundsolutions.asp

 The episodes cover topics such as: home management, coping 
skills, and
 many other topics, and with one exception, most of them are 30 
minutes
 or
 less.

 I'm presenting this for what it's worth, since I know that we 
have some
 creative people out there, and I also know that if we can 
present our
 message in a creative way, it might interest the younger 
generation.
 Check

 it out.  Thanks.
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