CNIB Mobile Hub providing resources to visually-impaired people – Okanagan | 24CA News
A Canada-wide group is offering assist to folks with imaginative and prescient loss in distant communities throughout the nation, together with three cities within the Okanagan. The first cease was in Kelowna, B.C., Tuesday afternoon.
At the occasion, organizers have been doing their finest to remind visually-impaired folks of what they’ll do, in comparison with what they’ll’t.
“People with vision loss can come and come out of their shell so that they’re not as isolated and get a lot of resources for them to adjust to their vision loss,” stated Tommy Leung, peer assist and program advocacy lead with the British Columbia and Yukon division of CNIB.
CNIB supplies assets to visually-impaired folks throughout the nation and its department based mostly in Kelowna will get contributors concerned in sports activities, work, coaching and training.
“No matter what age and what ability you have there is plenty of support just by contacting the CNIB office in Kelowna. We have everything from peer support groups to referrals,” stated Ann Hancock with CNIB Kelowna.
The cell hub featured cubicles from organizations based mostly all through the province. One of these cubicles is offering new expertise without spending a dime, all because of the New Horizons for Seniors Program.
“This grant is from the Canadian government and that is what actually allowed us to put this event on,” stated Vittoria Spindor, group engagement coordinator with CNIB Kelowna.
“It’s through funding from them that we were able to purchase our DAISY players and Victor readers so that we can distribute them to the people today. A lot of people were on a waiting list for a very long time.”
One of the targets of the occasion is to offer folks dwelling with sight loss with assets that make their day-to-day life just a little simpler.
“In a way, a gateway and entrance to confidence. A lot of times when people lose their eyesight they thought that they can’t do anything and when they get this technology, ‘Oh I can actually read books or actually can record phone numbers.’ Then that gets them thinking that maybe there’s something else that I can do,” stated Leung.
The CNIB might be organising extra cell hubs throughout the Okanagan this week together with in Penticton on Wednesday and Vernon on Thursday.
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