Friday, April 3, 2015

272 Brailling in the Bahamas and Portia, Fumi, Bonnie and me


Sunrise at the house over the bridge, Fumi and Chris', on the canal.


One year I went to Young Husband Ave. to The Haven where the PACE girls go to have their education while they are pregnant, young teenage girls. Val and I taught knitting and crotcheting that year.


The Haven where PACE,Providing Access to Continued Education, for young teenage girls who are pregnant.


Buildings for the orphanage in Freeport.


Bonnie and Portia in Port Lucaya.


Fumi and me in Port Lucaya.


Fumi, Portia and me.


Portia and Fumi.


Miss Carolyn and Miss Latika with me. They gave me roses and a plaque in appreciation for my work. Thank you so very much to everyone in the group, Brailling in the Bahamas Group at Ruby Swiss.


Pastor Lornel Wilchcombe and his wife Miss Peggy.


Latka's finder brailling.


Leona's fingers brailling.


Leona Armbrister and her daughter Latika a Ruby Swiss.


Vanny Roole's finger brailling on my Brailler from the Peel Board of Education.


My Brailler for the Peel Board.


Leona and Vanny at Ruby Swiss. Wes always brings us a drink on the house. Vanny gets a virgin Pina Colada and Leona gets one of those red ones. I get Campari and grapefruit juice. Miss Carolyn owns the restaurant with her adult children and she gives us the space free and then treats us to drinks and food. She is a VERY generous woman.


These are Joniece's fingers brailling. Her brailler came from Donna Winter's and her son Tim.


Joniece's fingers brailling.


Wes' fingers brailling. His brailler came from a lady sailor who is blind and she gave me 3 braillers this year, 2015. Unfortunately I didn't get her name and so I can't thank her personally but I'll send out thank yous to her in cyberspace. Gayle, a friend and sailor at Ocean Reef, fixed this brailler for Wesley.


Wesley and Miss Carolyn.


Janiece and me.


Miss Carolyn's fingers brailling on her brailler. Her brailler came from money I collected from the Women's Institute on the Island, Presbyterian Women's Associaion on the Island, David Pickering and Janet Scott. I bought this one brand new.


Here you see 5 cassette tape recorders. I use them to speak their contractions and dots onto so that when they go home they can play the tape and listen and braille. I bought these from money that I collected in my donation jar at the Cafe' and from Anthony and me.


This is a picture of two braille labellers and an abacus.


This is Leona and Vanny. There are two other braillers out there that Pastor Lornel has and Shavargo. I need one more for a new student, David Thompson and one for the new student that hasn't come yet.

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