Early December, SP went to Sri Lanka for a week. When she came back, she asked me for a favour.

One of the days when she was there, she passed by a blind school. She told the tour guide to stop so she could take photographs. The tour guide found it interesting.
After he heard that SP worked for a blindness association here, he told her that he knew a principal of another blind school. He told SP that his nephew was blind too. The next day, he brought his nephew to see her. That's how this blind student and SP's path crossed. How do I come into the picture?

SP wanted to help this boy. She asked if I could send my old materials about English to him to help with his studies. This boy would be taking 'O' levels in 2012. He doesn't own a brailler and used Slate and Stylus for home. Braillers were provided in school and during examinations. When she came back to Singapore, she wrote to the federation there to ask if there was any funding of any sort. There are no funding and that a brailler was pretty expensive. Can you believe that it cost nearly as much as Singapore?

I told SP that I didn't have materials in Braille. I have them in the audio format. I said, "Books I provide, CD you burn". Not only do we need a lot of CD's, SP doesn't know how to go about burning into CD's. I suggested her to get a Netbook. I told her I could help install programs useful to him. Netbooks cost lesser than laptops and is definitely more helpful to him.

My project in early 2011 is to get this student a Netbook, help to label some of the keys, install useful programs and braille out simple instructions to the programs inside his Netbook.

I really hope our act of kindness might be able to help this student. Right now, I feel so good about it! =D