Army gives computer to blind foundation
Waimarino children who have sight problems have been provided with a new IBM computer to help them with their reading and writing. The computer comes with a specially enlarged text screen, a voice synthesizer and various software packages. Money for the computer came from a fund raising rickshaw
run by 4 Supply Company, Waiouru Army Training Group completed last year. The company, who's code name is "Rickshaw", ran from Waiouru to Wellington towing a makeshift rickshaw. Staff Sergeant Ian Evans presented the computer to the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind at Raetihi School, where there are presently two pupils who have sight
problems. Other Waimarino children who have sight problems will be able to use the computer as well as normally sighted pupils. Inez Lister, of the foundation's Advisory Committee, accepted the computer, telling the children that while she was a running grandmother, she had never towed a rickshaw let alone one all the way to Wellington.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Issue 3, 5 August 1988, Page 26
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164Army gives computer to blind foundation Waimarino Bulletin, Issue 3, 5 August 1988, Page 26
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