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© 2014 Blind Corps

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Year Spent

The year is spent, indeed.
Now we look ahead to the new to be shared.
It's a time to recall and a time to plan.
Blind Corps recalls the generosity we've seen
from the Team and all the friends of the blind around the world.
We look with anticipation and hope to continued strivings to meet the needs of blind persons in far away lands.
Please join us in carrying on our mission.
Gratefully,
Mike Floyd, President
Blind Corps

 

 

 

Please support Project Nepal 2012

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Thank you!

 

New Year's Update!

We’re approaching the New Year, 2012, with great hope and anticipation.  Our big plan for the coming year is a project in Nepal during the Fall.  Along with our Project Coordinator Buna Dahal, originally of Nepal, we are scheduled to take a Blind Corps Team to meet, demonstrate, share, organize and discover in Kathmandu and Biratnagar with the blind and their friends there.  Our objectives will be development of leadership among and services for blind persons.  We’ll provide training, of course.  We’ll convey attitudes and techniques incorporating the “Structured Discovery Method.”  We’ll bring and introduce adaptive blindness tools and equipment.  All this and more we’ll do in an intensive four-week program tailored to cultural and practical needs.

We expect to do much learning ourselves, and to see the Blind Corps outreach continue to evolve and adapt in the process.  Much of what we have encountered to date in our three previous missions has emphasized the need for the train-the-trainer model of programming.  In the future, we will be placing more and more attention on leadership identification and organization, along with establishment and development of durable, in-country programs.  We’re looking to the future with an eye to more long-term and comprehensive training of select individuals, this to take place in the best of the American centers for the blind.  Individuals thus trained will then return to carry on the process in their homelands.

In 2013 we will be extending our Blind Corps services to the blind of Kyrgyzstan.  We are excited to have already had interactions with two excellent individuals from Kyrgyzstan.  A young woman by the name of Elnura has been through training at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, has completed her O&M Masters at Louisiana Tech University, and returned to Bishkek.  Gulnaz is a member of the blind community in Kyrgyzstan, and she is currently attending the Louisiana Center for the Blind for their full pre-vocational training.  These two women are making preparations for Blind Corps’s project in Kyrgyzstan and we look forward to a very successful project there.

Please keep Blind Corps on your radar in the year ahead.  As we make plans and preparations and continue to discuss other areas of the world for our outreach, Blind Corps will be looking to you for support to carry out our missions.  Please build us into your giving plans for 2012 and 2013.  You can find a Paypal link for your speedy and secure giving at our website:

www.blindcorps.org

We can also make use of any serviceable tools and equipment such as canes, Braille slates or watches,  and netbooks or Macbooks.  Stay tuned!