Visit to SAVH & Collection of Donations-23rd May

That day the Sec 1s had a beach clean-up, so when we came back, some of us set up a booth in front of the bookshop while the girls went around asking for donations.
Some students were generous, donating 10 dollars, some donated 10 cents, but it was still a donation, so we just left it in the box. There was this guy whom we went to 3 times and he donated every time.
We figured out that people actually donated more if they saw more notes in the box, so we hid all the coins under the notes ($2, $5, $10) and they donated more.
:D
We raised over 400 dollars, which was quite a feat, considering we raised that sum only in 2 recesses.
We sorted out the stationary that some people donated.
Adding from our sum before, we have about 600 dollars.
:D
The trip to SAVH was fun. We learnt a lot more on how the visually handicapped read, eat, walk.
We were introduced to some computer softwares that help them to use the computer, but they are super expensive.
We were also allowed to try some walking sticks and deciding for ourselves which one was the best.
Then we were brought to the Braille production place and the person, Ben, who only had about 10% of his vision explained to us about producing Braille.
They had some Braille produced textbooks, the same as ours, only it was using Braille.
We could touch some Braille things they had on display and we also learned about another type of alphabets for the blind called Moon alphabets, which has some similarity with our normal-day alphabets.
It was for the peple who became blind at a more older stage and that Braille was too hard for them to learn, they turn to the Moon alphabets as an alternative.
After that we went to the library where everything was either Braille or in a form of a voice cassette.
We then went to the working place, where they basically threaded the ropes for shopping bags.
We left the place, after thanking our guide and on the bus back we were de-briefed again.