Shannon Fassler with her mum Wendy, third from right, Keving Sanders, right and world boxing champion David Haye, third from left. Below right: Shannon and her mum.
Boxing Fans raise money for Shannon.
OVERWHELMED by the plight of a deafblind schoolgirl, the city's boxing fans have raised thousands of pounds to purchase a piece of equipment that will transform the 11-year-old's life. They dug deep after hearing the story of Shannon Fassler, who was diagnosed with hearing loss aged three and registered blind six months ago.
With the gradual deterioration of both senses, Shannon's mother Wendy hoped that a state-of-the-art machine that can turn the written word into Braille would enable Shannon to continue her education.
However, affording the four-figure price tag seemed an insurmountable task – that was until city promoter Kevin Sanders and long-time charity fund-raiser Chris Groome, both friends of Wendy, offered their services.
Their pledge of support culminated in a fund-raiser at the Marriott Hotel, featuring world boxing champion David Haye, attended by 180 business people from the city.
Mr Sanders said the audience "sat in silence" as Shannon's story was read aloud. Then, in an astonishing response, £10,000 was donated to Shannon, enough for the specialist equipment and more – the rest will be paid into a trust fund
Deaf-Blind Theatre
3 comments:
Wonder why you are showing the
video without CC. "Deaf & Blind"
means "Can't see to lipread".
CC (C)an't Read, (C)an't caption :)
Of course deaf-blind, Can read, but putting up Braille captions, seems rather fraught with difficulty, deaf-blind would still not access it. It just occured to me it is time the Deaf/deaf included them too. Read anything at deaf.read none seems to be designed to include them does it ? I'll take advice if you've got it.
Are ASL/BSLusers going to have a go at them too ? They've attacked everyone else !
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