Ability Beyond the Horizon

Need sponsor for our web costs

2012-01-13T21:02:00.000-05:00

Hello friends, it's time our site got a redesign. To do this properly so that I can maintain it myself without having to ask others to do the techy stuff, I'd like to change to a different host. I'll be moving the blog and everything over to a different set up. The cost to host the site with https://www.bluehost.com is $3.95 a month if you agree to 24 months, or $4.95 for 12 months. If you know anything about this stuff, that's a pretty good deal, and they work really well with Wordpress, which is good because the new site will be managed by wordpress.org, and will be built around our videos and pictures, with of course the blog.

So, my sales pitch is one cup of coffee a month worth of dollars donated to Ability Beyond the Horizon so we can continue to keep our presence out there in the world and get to kids with visual impairment.

Boys at the school for the blind we'll be working with this summer

We have the funds to make this happen, but I'd rather keep those funds for our summer work. With that in mind, it occurred to me that I could see if anyone in our family of support was interested in sponsoring us. Thanks for the consideration, please get in touch or donate at the site if you like http://www.abilitybeyondthehorizon.org/involvement.php your support, as always, is incredibly appreciated.

~Mickey

Look at all those books!!!

2012-01-10T16:03:00.001-05:00

So, yesterday I got a call from the postal center here at FSU telling me that they had about 60-70 boxes of braille materials for me and wanted to know what I wanted to do with them. Wow! I had put a new address out there for shipping, but I guess it didn't actually get out there like I thought. So this morning Alison Bailey, and Brittany Stanley two students in the FSU visual disabilities program met me at the shipping center. I brought tape, Alison brought labels. Alison is actually the magic behind all the shipping so far. She's diligently gone in and relabeled boxes to head to Shanthala. Since Shanthala might be getting at capacity, please email me if you plan to ship boxes, and I might give you another address to send them to somewhere else in the world. Clearly there is a need, and a surplus of material here in the US to give. So please keep it up. Just get in touch at mickey@abilitybeyondthehorizon.org so that our efforts are the most effective.

There are about 60 boxes there, we estimate at least 500 books

~Mickey

The link to the video

2012-01-03T08:01:00.000-05:00

Apparently many of the email programs wouldn't support embedded video. Note to self for next time. So, here's the link to the video http://vimeo.com/34098578 hopefully that'll work better for you all. Thanks for letting me know.

~Mickey