The Pacific Training Centre for the Blind Needs Your Help The Pacific Training Centre for the Blind needs volunteers who would be interested in serving on a fundraising committee - which would meet via telephone conference twice monthly - and who would like to assist us in organizing fundraising projects and events. The work would involve two to three hours per week. About the Centre The Pacific Training Centre for the Blind is a new nonprofit organization, formed to address the extreme lack of quality independence training for blind people in the country. The organization is run by blind people and all its services and programs are based on a positive, civil rights model of teaching that puts the blind person in charge. The centre is developing a pilot project called the Independence Program. This program will provide an intensive curriculum of independence skills and employment training to up to 40 blind working-age Canadians. The most important goal of the centre will be to help its students find employment and thereby help to reduce the high unemployment rate of blind Canadians, which is between 70 to 80 per cent (CNIB and Government of Canada 2005; Statistics Canada 2004). Our Vision Blind people empowering blind people to become employed, independent and free. Our Mission The Pacific Training Centre for the Blind is committed to empowering its students to achieve independence, employment, equality and first-class citizenship by offering cutting edge blindness skills training based on a positive, proven, world-renowned model. Project leaders will instill a belief in blind people’s own capabilities and in the limitless possibilities open to them and will adopt a non-custodial approach (i.e. it is not about sighted people doing things for the blind; it is about blind people doing things for themselves, and it is about blind teachers working with blind students to increase skills and confidence). Services Contact For more information about the centre, or to volunteer your time, please contact, Ashley Charlton, Funds Development Co-ordinator (604) 710-5314 E-mail: stopped2smelltheroses@hotmail
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:18:53 +0000
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