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Our Vision: It is our vision to be: " A world leader providing professional expertise and innovations in specialized literacy services to the Deaf and Deaf blind communities.

Guide Dog Users of Canada (GDUC) helps guide dog users to maximize the benefits of mobility with a guide dog so that they may participate more fully in Canadian society. Open to guide dog users and all those interested in furthering their cause, GDUC intends to become a voice for Canadian guide dog users and a centre of excellence on the activities, needs, and accomplishments of persons who are blind, partially sighted, or deaf-blind, and assisted by guide dogs. Step out with us and let us work together to make a difference for guide dog teams in Canada. Join Guide Dog Users of Canada!

SERVICES ONTARIO EARLY YEARS Programs which include parenting courses, workshops, emergent literacy, single parent groups, groups for mothers and their infants and drop-in sessions. ESSEX PRESCHOOL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE (TALK 2 ME) Offers assessment and a range of intervention services for families who have concerns about their child’s speech, language or emergent literacy skills, from birth to the year they start school. ESSEX-KENT INFANT HEARING PROGRAM Offers universal newborn hearing screening, high risk monitoring and additional services for families of children identified with a permanent hearing loss living in Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent counties. ESSEX-KENT BLIND-LOW VISION PROGRAM Offers specialized family-centred services for children who are born blind or with low vision. VOLUNTEER / STUDENT PLACEMENT PROGRAM This program offers orientation, training and supervision to community volunteers and student placements.

Quinte SailAbility operates out CFB TRenton Yacht Club on the Bay of Quinte. We operate 8 specially designed sail boats 10 weeks each summer. We offer Learn to Sail, recreational sailing and racing to about 40 students per year. It costs $27.92 to send a student out sailing for 2 - 3 hours and we charge $10.15......we must fund raise the balance. Our students arange in age from 7 to 65 and have either a physical or developmental disability. Our boats can be adapted to allow any one to sail, including blind students and a sip and puff control system allowing a full qudriplegic to sail.

Our Values: 1. RESPECT for the dignity and goodness of each person as a unique creation. This organization will demonstrate flexibility in its dealings with those we serve. 2. RESPECT for the capacity of each of us to embrace the challenge of human existence. We encourage those we serve to take responsibility for their own lives; we try to empower by assisting them to make informed choices for themselves. 3. A FIRM CONVICTION that out of poverty comes creativity, new life and growth. We reach out, recognizing that the poor are not in need of 'fixing', 'saving' or 'rescuing'. Growth comes from journeying with those we serve, not in doing for them. 4. The importance of EDUCATION as the key to change. Education takes many forms. Those who are malnourished most of their lives often have special needs; secondary school, university, apprenticeships, as well as special education for severe learning disabilities such as deafness and blindness are all strategies we pursue.

The Boston Arts Academy Foundation (BAAF) was established to raise essential funds for Boston Arts Academy, our city's only public high school for the arts. BAAF raises 35% of the school's budget from private sources to pay for the arts teachers, programming, and student wellness initiatives not covered by the school district. Without such support, our city's young people, living in one of the cultural capitals of the world, would not be able to attend a public arts high school. Boston Arts Academy (BAA) provides Boston's low-income students with access to an arts and academic education not otherwise available to them. BAA prepares a diverse community of aspiring artist-scholars to be successful in their college or professional careers and to be engaged members of a democratic society. Students of all levels of academic ability attend BAA through our academic-blind admissions process. An average of 94% of BAA graduates are accepted to college - most the first in their families to do so.

TRACHOMA PROJECT: Trachoma is the largest preventable cause of blindness with the rate of infection in a typical village being as high as 45%. We have a program where we examine the children, provide medication where necessary, provide education as to good hygene and also clean water. THE CHISHAWASHA ORPHANAGE PROJECT: This orphanage is presently the home for 40 children and we are providing some buildings and covering some of their operating costs. THE ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL PROJECT: We look after the cost of 100 operations each year and in 2006 we built a residence and we look after all of its annual expenses. CATARACT PROJECT: We continue to help with the children's cataract operations. COMMUNITY SCHOOL PROJECT: We are building two much needed small schools in the very remote Gwembe Valley in Zambia. CHISANGA HEALTH POST PROJECT: Also in the Gwembe valley we are building a health post in an area that is the home to over 4,500 Tonga.