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Computers for the Blind Needs Your Help
Lion David Jeppson Executive Director
Computers for the Blind is now shipping over 125 computers a month to persons who are blind throughout the US and we have depleted our supply. No wonder as we are serving twice as many blind persons than we did three years ago! I am calling upon your help once again. We get donations from every industry and every size business. If you know an employer that has, or may have, computers to donate please help me get my foot in the door and I will take it from there. I just need the name and phone # of the person you know at the business along with your name and which club you are with. I will make the call if you don’t feel comfortable doing so.
We need laptops, desktops and flat screen monitors. No printers, Apple computers or CRT’s please. I will pick up them up for free and provide a tax-deductible letter as CFTB is a non-profit 501 (c) (3). If the number is fewer than 5 units then please take them to one of our drop-off locations (see below. If you can’t, call me and I will make other arrangements.
Our volunteers use a Department of Defense certified program to erase all the data. They make the necessary repairs and install the software that make them accessible per persons who are blind.
Please share with members of your club and others. Together we can help fulfill the dream of Helen Keller that the Lions Clubs would be Knights for the Blind.
Please drop off your computer at one of the locations listed below.
AFB Center on Vision Loss
11030 Ables Lane Dallas, TX 75229
Monday – Friday 9 am – 5 pm
Artisan Center Theater
444 E. Pipeline Road, Hurst, TX 76053 Monday - Friday 10 am – 6 pm, Sat. 10 - 4 and when you come to attend the theater. Computers for the Blind
1201 S. Sherman Street Suite 204 Richardson, TX 75081
Tuesdays and Thursdays - Noon – 4:30 pm Cooke County United Way
114 E. Main Street Gainesville, TX 76240 Monday – Friday – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind
4306 Capitol Avenue Dallas, TX 75204 Monday – Friday – 7:30 am – 4:30 pm
Lighthouse for the Blind of Fort Worth
912 West Broadway Fort Worth, TX 76104 Monday-Thursday 7:00 am - 5:30 pm Lions Eye Glasses Recycling Center 5621 Bunker Blvd. Watauga, TX 76148 Saturdays 9 am - 3 pm
Plaza Theatre Company
111 S. Main St. Cleburne, TX 76033 Monday - Friday, 10 am - 6 pm, Sat. 1-4 REACH of Denton
405 S. Elm, Suite 202 Denton, TX 76201 Monday-Friday8am-5pm
REACH of Plano
720 E. Park Blvd., Suite 104 Plano, TX 75074 Monday-Friday8am-5pm
(Continued PDG Wallace) rewarding to see the smiles on their faces and the fun they are having,” Wallace said. “We’re just one of the clubs helping out. It’s a real team effort bringing happiness to those kids.”
“I consider him one of the most service-minded persons that I have ever known. Wallace was one of the big reasons I became a member of the International Lions Club,” said Robert Taylor, who has known Wallace for four decades. “His work and service have been greatly appreciated by so many people.”
And Wallace has no plans to stop. You can find him, with his fellow Lions, at their weekly noon meeting at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Ennis, probably discussing their next service project. “The motto of the Lions Club is, ‘We serve,’” Joy said. “And he is certainly the model for that.”
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