Response to Broadcast Appeal for Sightless

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 32, 15 February 1935, Page 50

Response to Broadcast Appeal for Sightless

TTHANKS to broadcasting, no blind child. in Great Britain was without a toy this. Christmas, claims the National Institute for the Blind. Presents were’ sent in by boys and girls who heard Sir Ian Fraser, one of the leading workers for the blind, make the first broadcast appeal ever given in the children’s hour. Part of the £700 in cash re-. ceived was spent in toys, and the remainder is being. used to provide scholarships, Braille . books and special apparatus required by blind children. Radio’ sets are also brightening..the: homes. of many more sightless in Britain"as a result of an appeal on Christmas. night. There was'a momentary break. in ‘the programmes that evening, when the voice ofan unknown sightless man told what a boon: wireless was to the blind., The appeal was even more poignant than those which had been made in previous years by prominent statesmen. The "Wireless for the Blind’"’ fund has already provided more than 25,000 sets: in the . homes of sightless people.