Empowerment For The Blind
I have just located what I think is a pretty compelling article on what is needed to help the blind and visually impaired to become truly free in today’s society.
As most of us know, when it comes to blind or visually impaired people, it seams that they are treated like second class citizens in many situations. While the blind community as a whole is not as large as other minorities, it still deserves attention, but in the right way.
For so long now, the blind have been treated as second class citizens, given lower paying jobs, or in many situations; no jobs at all. It is not that the blind lack in the proper job training and independent living skills. The problem lies within the private job sector where there are a lot of people who are still ignorant as to what the blind are capable of today.
However, even in the face of knowing what the capabilities are of the blind, some employers are still reluctant to hire blind people, even if they have all the needed skills and meet all the criteria that the job requires.
The Problem could lie in personal opinions of the employer and the company, or it can be something as simple as their misunderstanding of the capabilities of blind people today.
Job discrimination is going on, even in the twenty-first century. At least 70 to 80% of all blind persons are without employment, not because they don’t want to work, but because of the system and how it operates.
You would think that job discrimination would go on in places like third world nations, but not in the United States. Well it does go on here, and that’s a fact whether we like to hear it or not.
So the ability for the blind to live what most call the american dream is pretty much out of reach, and for the most part; unatainable, unless those individuals are employed and are able to support themselves without having to rely upon government money.
However, the problem lies in the fact that so many blind and visually impaired relie upon a system that basically gives them scraps to live on that only allow for them to barely make it from month to month.
Let’s face it, $600 is not enough to really live on these days. Sure, it is just enough to scrape by, but that’s what most blind and visually impaired people are doing these days, just scraping by off of a system that is broken and inefficient.
One of the other reasons why so many blind and visually impaired people aren’t working actually has to do with them themselves and their relationship with this broken down system that they draw their monthly income from.
Because so many blind and visually impaired people are recieving income such as SSI, many of them just get used to the system, and continue to rely on that system for their life support, thus loosing the desire to work or to even get off the system altogether.
A matter of fact, there are individuals today who are so attached to the system that they are afraid to get off of it in fear of loosing what little independence they may have. However, do you call living off of government income true independence?
It seams easier for a nation to just simply hand out monthly incomes to the blind, rather than properly train them to live independent lives. That is why many state agencies for the blind send the blind and visually impaired to vocational rehabilitation centers for such training.
However, in spite of that training, the blind still are being treated like second class citizens, and many of them aren’t even employed with the newly found skills that they now possess from these training facilities.
So is there an alternative solution? Yes there is and it is called the Blind Online Success System, and you can check it out here below.
http://www.blindonlinesuccesssystem.com/info
Ok, now onto the article that I was talkingabout earlier. The link below will take you directly to the article.
This is one powerful article that you must read, and then after you read it come back here to learn more about the Blind Online Success System and what it has to offer.
<a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Freedom+for+the+blind:+the+secret+is+empowerment-a0126791482 ">Freedom for the blind: the secret is empowerment.</a>
Ok, so what did you think of that article? Do you agree with it? Don’t you think that the blind deserve more in the way of equality and independence? Well that’s what the Blind Online Success System attempts to deliver through its in depth traning and mentorship.
We don’t just give them a fish and feed them for a day, we teach them to fish and feed them for a lifetime. The Blind Online Success System is designed in such a way that we properly educate the blind and visually impaired to properly run and manage their own online businesses by giving them a chance to obtain new skills and mentorship that can only be given through a program such as this.
Those who are already a part of this program say that this type of thing has been a long time coming. They also wonder why anyone else hadden’t thought of it before. Well I don’t know why they didn’t think of it before, but at least we did, and now we have such a program available today.
Our goal is to help to provide a more independent lifestyle for the blind by training them to run and manage their own online businesses. We pride ourselves on the fact that we’re the only program of this tipe in the entire world. Sure there might be some copy cats along the way that try to immulate what we’re doing, but we have already cornered this market, and therefore, we hold the highest position.
Those that have joined us have already experienced a wealth of training and information that they say is the best that they have ever recieved from anywhere. Our members are happy to be a part of this winning team, and we are looking forward to new members as well.
Online skills are a must in today’s society, and we can give you such skills through our comprehensive training. We are thorough and complete when it comes to training people how to effectively run and manage an online business. Our goal through this program is to create more independent blind and visually impaired individuals by allowing them to make their own choices and make their own incomes through their own business online.
Having your own business means that you do not have to worry about descrimination issues, transportation issues and a whole host of other negative issues that society can dish out. We want to focus upon making sure that those in our program can not only develop new skills and use them, but we want them to use these newly found skills to their advantage. As an alternative to traditional employment training, the Blind Online Success System is rising to the challenge of providing quality mentorship and training.
These skills that are taught through our program can be transferred to traditional employment if need be. Not only that, but if an indivdiual is already in our program, and is currently working in more traditional employment, the skills that they recieve from us can instantly be used in their place of work as well, thus improving upon their productivity and so on.
We already have individuals in our program who are currrently working in more traditional employment settings and they are using the skills that they learn from us to greatly improve their status at their place of employment.
As an upcoming organization, the Blind Online Success System has already proven that people can do the work. It just takes action and that’s what at least 8 to 9% of our members are doing. They’re all taking action and doing what is required of them to begin their journey down the road of success.