[nabs] Lions Club

[LISADRZEWUCKI at aol.com]

Our local chapter, Long Island Council of the Blind (LICB) has been working 
 with the Lions for some time now.  They offer us a great deal of 
assistance  at fundraising and social events.  I do however, agree with your  
concerns.  But we have found that by including them in our activities they  are 
able to see that we are intelligent, competent, and unique individuals with  
abilities comparable (or sometimes superior) to theirs.  This has been  
especially true of our annual Dinner in the Dark event.
 
 
In a message dated 9/9/2010 10:09:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
orangebutterfly87 at gmail.com writes:

I have  personally never seen this, but it doesn't surprise me. 
When I have gone  to Lions events, I have always gotten the vague 
impression  that they  take a rather paternalistic view of their 
helping  activities.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anmol Bhatia"  <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com>
To: <nabs at acb.org>
Sent: Wednesday,  September 08, 2010 12:42 PM
Subject: [nabs] Lions Club


Does it  bother any of you when the Lions Club seat in frunt of 
Walmart and ask for  money to help the blind? This has been 
something that has bothering me for  a long time and mostly the 
reason why I have not joined one. Lions do a  lot of good for the 
blind and I have been lucky to speak to a few Lions  Clubs, but 
helping the blind in expense of reinforcing the sterotype that  
society has about the blind to me does not really helpful to our 
well  being and holds us back in society. Its been something that 
has been  bugging me for years, but I was not sure if it is just 
me or if there are  other blind individuals who feel the same. I 
finally decide to ask when a  friend of mine who has mentioned 
about joing a organization for the blind  said that she going to 
get involved in the Lions club and sit in frunt of  Walmart. It 
would be interesting to hear what everyone has to think about  
this.

Anmol


I seldom think about my limitations, and  they never make me sad. 
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at  times; but it is 
vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Hellen  Keller




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