FUTURES IN BLINDNESS 2010
Project Turkey 2010
Stay tuned for next June. A new Team Turkey with some old faces will be returning to Istanbul with an emphasis on working directly with educators of the
blind.
It’s winter! You just can’t get around, at least if you’re anywhere like Lincoln. Since 5:00 a.m. yesterday,, December 22, we’ve seen the foulest weather, freezing rain, wind, ice, snow, with no sign of letting up. Nothing is moving. Nobody in their right mind would choose to travel out there. Yet people have the choice. Imagine if you had no such choice. Or what if your choices were just as limited, round the clock, day long, week in and out, month after month, life-long? What would that be like?
It would be like the lives of blind people in developing nations, with no hope of receiving the basic training they need to live full independent lives. But this kind of training is available in the U. S. A. every single day. Now, the veteran rehabilitation professionals of non-profit Blind Corps provide this kind of U. S.-developed training to blind people and their teachers where it has never been provided before.
You can help to thaw the ice and make it possible for blind persons of developing nations, struggling to be free and equal, to achieve their dreams of independence. For the cost of a $10 Braille slate, a $25 white cane, a $50 Braille watch, or the donation of used but serviceable equipment or technology you can make a difference.
On May 25, 2010 our team of eight, including Fatos and I will be leaving for Istanbul for our third Blind Corps mission. We’ll be providing training to teachers from the 16 schools for the blind scattered across Turkey, as well as direct contact with individual blind persons. If you’d like to join us, as well as the Turkish Ministry of Education, the City of Istanbul, and Bey Az Ay, the leading non-profit organization of the blind in Turkey in supporting this project, please contact me directly or donate securely online with the Paypal link below.
All of us of the Blind Corps team appreciate your consideration and generosity.
Yours respectfully,
Mike Floyd, President
Blind Corps
You Can Make It Happen!
Enjoy a sample of our friends of the Altinokta Blind Choir
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