By Audrey Lin | Project Manager
We are excited to share our progress in the first quarter of 2023! We began executing the yearly planned projects, including routine annual training courses, volunteer recruitment, fundraising, monthly newsletter publishing, and more to be announced. We believe this year will be very fruitful and rewarding. The results of the first quarter are described as follows:
1. Annual Volunteer Training
As usual, TDTB recruits volunteers to support our activities and audiobook recordings every year. Different from the past, this year we aim to establish a more systematic volunteer team that is divided into three groups, including activity-support, administrative-support, and recording volunteers. After recruiting, we accomplished volunteer training for each group to ensure they are well-acquainted with their roles and responsibilities.
Activity and administrative-support volunteers received training on mobility guidance and image narration. The interaction between volunteers and the visually impaired will foster better mutual understanding. Additionally, recording volunteers received training on recording skills and editing for audiobooks. Given that most of the visually impaired mainly rely on their sense of hearing to obtain information, the quality of audiobooks is vital.
We believe these collective efforts can make a positive impact and create a more inclusive and compassionate society.
2. Meeting outside TDTB office
In order to avoid distractions from daily operations, the TDTB staff held a project meeting in Le Midi Hotel located in Xitou, a beautiful town in middle Taiwan, and the final fiscal report of 2022 was reviewed by the TDTB board of directors.
During the meeting, we updated our financial status, work results, and plans for the upcoming year. During this three-day outing, the spring reception was held to express gratitude to the hard-working team members in an enjoyable atmosphere.
TDTB values the importance of fostering the relationships between the board members and staff through such activities. We believe that by increasing interaction and discussing important issues during these meetings, we can reach a consensus more easily when future proposals require concept exchange and further discussion.
3. General Assembly
The annual general meeting is essential for TDTB members in the early year. On March 29th meeting, we presented the routine reporting, but more importantly, to make our members come together to get to know each other better and work towards the shared objective.
4. Feedback from Tutoring Services Student-Ying
Ying is a special education teacher at an ordinary school and has occasionally taught students with visual impairments in her class. Therefore, Ying decided to take TDTB's one-on-one course.
After completing the course, Ying shared her feedback with us:
As a special education teacher with almost 20 years of experience, I met visually impaired students about once every ten years in ordinary schools. Therefore, I am not unfamiliar with assistive technology for the visually impaired. However, when attending conferences related to visually impaired students in recent years, I usually confused the information provided by itinerant teachers and foundations related to visually impaired education. Motivated by my curiosity, I began learning NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access) last year.
The enthusiastic social worker arranged a one-on-one assistive technology course with Mr. Jun Lu. I would like to thank Mr. Lu for introducing practical skills. He not only allowed me to acquire valuable skills but increased my awareness of the obstacles faced by visually impaired students. Many thanks to TDTB for providing such valuable resources so that I could better support my students in advancing their computer skills and meeting their unique needs.
5. Thank you for participating Little by Little fundraising project
TDTB raised USD 1,035 from the "Little by Little" fundraising campaign! Among the 870 organizations that participated in the campaign, we ranked 213th with a total of 14 enthusiastic donors. Since TDTB's established, proactively promoting everyone deserves the same right to obtain information. However, there are still many visually impaired are lack of learning resources. With the continued support of donors and our efforts, we can accompany more visually impaired living independently in an equal society.
Many thanks to all donors and GlobalGiving who contributed to the campaign. Your generosity and kindness have impacted society towards a beautiful difference in the lives of the visually impaired!!
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