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The Purpose of our Chapter Is:
To strive for the betterment of our total community:
- Through a representative state organization primarily of blind people.
- By providing a forum for the views of the blind from all parts of the state and from all walks of life.
- By elevating the social, economic and cultural level of the blind.
- By improving educational and rehabilitational facilities.
- By broadening vocational opportunities.
- By encouraging the blind, especially the newly blind, to develop their abilities and potentials and to assume their responsible place in the community.
- By cooperating with the public and private institutions and agencies for the blind.
- By conducting a program of public education aimed toward improving the understanding of the problems of blindness and of the capabilities of the blind people.
Some of the goals of this chapter are:
- Organization of a support group for visually impaired children and their families
- Monthly activities for the visually impaired adults
- Helping visually impaired people resume normal daily activities through interaction and communication
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