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Touch of (friendship

» My Work With the Blind

By E T T A P H I L L I P S M A C P H I E , Delta

1N 1923, I became active in the work for the blind people of Lowell,
Mass.,'as chairman of a committee under the Middlesex Women's
Club. There were about twenty.persons whom the club befriended
with occasional visits and at Christmas with cheer boxes. The ladies
on the committee had served for ten years and were very dear to their
blind friends. However, it seemed to me that more, work was really
necessary and the needs very urgent. More money was needed and

more city-wide interest was wanted. Within three years—by means of
hard work and the co-operation of the state, city, and service clubs and
also with the continued help from the woman's club, a large volunteer
working organization was formed and more than one hundred and
twenty blind people were actually reached and made to feel that they
had real friends who stood ready for service. The new organization
is known as the Lowell Association for the Blind. The Lion's Club
was very generous in furnishing and maintaining about sixty radios.
My, what a ray of light these radios gave to people who have been