About Us
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- Created on Saturday, 12 February 2011 21:51
On this page you will learn all about the Mountain State Council of the Blind organization.
We will list the chapters and their contact information.
The MSCB of West Virginia is looking not only for members but contributors and friends of the blind and low vision community.
What We Do
- Provide advocacy and support to our members and their families.
- Encourage each person to be as self-sufficient as possible.
- Promote democracy to our members
- Offer education and information on blindness and relevant accessibility issues to interested community members and organizations.
- Work with state and national legislators to encourage promotion of relevant bills and laws that will further enable blind and visually impaired people to be productive, functioning individuals.
- We are a nonprofit organization, Our fund-raising helps to purchase adaptive equipment for blind and visually impaired people in need, sponsor members to attend the state and national conventions, legislative seminars and other ACB related conventions, fund a scholarship program for a blind student each year,
- sponsor various trips for our members and assist the community in education and adaptive equipment needs as we can.
Donations Are Appreciated
*We are a registered 501(c)3 IRS charity, and all donations are tax deductible. Donating through PayPal will even give you a printable receipt for your donation