Before coming to the United States from the Ukraine in 2012, Tatiana Russell had never met a blind person. But after joining IFB Solutions Winston-Salem to work in their optics department that same year, she discovered a world of possibilities she never knew existed. “I came for a tour, and it changed my life,” recalled …
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It isn’t easy for someone losing their vision to view the experience as an opportunity to learn and grow. But that’s exactly what Devin Fernandez and Third Eye Insight have done for hundreds of blind and visually impaired individuals in the Long Island, New York area for over 10 years. Fernandez founded TEI with his …
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By her late forties, Marlene Davis was assuming all joy in her life was gone. Davis served four years in the United States Military in the nineties, during which time she experienced severe head trauma and erosion in her vision. The doctors told her she would expect to be completely blind in less than twenty …
Once Foreseeable Future’s founder discovered a passion for tandem cycling, he has never looked back. There’s something about the thrill of being on a tandem bike that can only be described through experience. Tandem cyclist Griffin Pinkow lives for that thrill every day. A self-described adrenaline junkie with a passion for the outdoors for as …
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Organizations awarded for adaptive sporting events The Foreseeable Future Foundation released its 2021 Funding Program recipients. Funding was awarded to both groups and individuals in the visually impaired and blind community who exemplified the core values the foundation holds. With an overwhelming amount of applications this year, the foundation was able to award financial compensation …
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The Foreseeable Future Foundation helps Metro Blind Hockey improve experiences for blind athletes.
We are lucky enough to live in a world where we have real-life superheroes, and the Foreseeable Future Foundation has the opportunity to help those heroes along the way. Melissa Blume may not be saving people out of burning buildings or fighting crime, but she is setting her own type of precedent as a blind …
Miah Konklin is a delightful, articulate, enthusiastic young woman. When she was a child, she loved to read. She’d go to the library, ask the librarian for a suggestion and bury her face in the book. When Miah was in fourth grade, her mother noticed Miah was bringing the book closer and closer to her …
Three New Sports! Camp Abilities is an educational sports camp for children who are visually impaired, blind, or deafblind. Camp Abilities opened its first camp on the campus of SUNY in Brockport, New York in 1996. One of the most exciting aspects of Camp Abilities is the one-to-one counselor to camper ratio. Each camper is …
Foreseeable Future hosted a second speaker panel, this time featuring the founders and directors from Envision Blind Sports and NY Metro Blind Hockey, two organizations whose mission is to improve the lives of the visually impaired. Host Mark Farrell got the incredible success stories from Wendy Fagan and Ted Caputo on their journey, the success …
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