Perkins School sends braille typewriters to Baghdad
By Globe Staff
The Perkins School for the Blind is reaching out across the world to a school for the blind in Baghdad, sending them 20 braille typewriters and a 72-volume braille dictionary.
 Twenty Perkins Braillers are heading to Baghdad. |
David Morgan, general manager of Perkins Products, which makes the brailler and other products for the blind, got the idea after watching a CNN story on the Baghdad school, which has 60 students, 10 of the typewriters, and no dictionary, said a school spokeswoman, Marilyn Rea Beyer.
The items were loaded onto a truck today at the school, along with 75 new pairs of sunglasses donated by American Harley-Davidson of Leominster, and they’re expected to be delivered sometime on the week of Oct. 6, Beyer said.
The braille typewriter is essentially a device that embosses dots on a piece of special paper to form braille characters. The Perkins Brailler is the most widely used such device in the world, the school said.
“Learning is so critical to any child’s well-being, self-esteem and independence. It’s hard to imagine the challenges that school kids in a war zone face. If a gift from Perkins Products can help the children at the Al Noor School overcome some of those challenges, we felt we had to step up," Morgan said in a statement.
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thanks to the great good-hearted people who helped blind people. you are really great. im from iraq. i sent my 3 yrs old nephew to the united states of America to get medical treatment for his eyes that have been damaged by the angry blind bullets of the terrorists. now he is totally blind but he lives with a unique american family enjoying his life as a human being not as a handicapped. blind people need more care and more dedication.