BELL Camp

For the past 2 weeks, I've been volunteering at a summer camp. I know what you're probably thinking. Big deal, people work at camps all the time. However, what made this camp uneaque was its purpose. In the public school system, if a child is visually impared, and they can manage to get by with print, then they are not taught braille. This is a major problem since some eye conditions are not stable, and straining to read print can be too hard on some people's eyes. So, they should be learning braille. This camp was put together so we could make this possible for them. The camp was named BELL, or Braille Enrichment for Literacy and Learning. We taught the kids their braille alphebet with a variety of activities and games. Not only did they have fun, but they learned something in the process. I think the most rewarding thing for me was knowing I was helping them to learn things that I was privilaged enough to learn early in life, and they had to wait longer for. Hopefully, if school officials realize how beneficial this is for visually impared students, changes will be made, and camps like this won't be needed. In the meantime, I've enjoyed working there, and am allready looking forward to doing it again next year.