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January 20, 2012
Check out our new You Tube Video
Take a few minutes to view this video about Blind Beginnings to better grasp who we are and what we do
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January 11, 2012
Support Blind Beginnings by attending our Light Up the Night Gala
Join us at the Firefighter's Club in Burnaby on March 10, 2012 for our Light Up the Night Gala. You can look forward to a delicious 3-course meal, great auction items, fantastic entertainment, dancing, and most of all fun!
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November 28, 2011
Community Discovery to Moody Park Ice Arena
How do you explain to your blind or visually impaired child what an ice arena feels like? What a Zamboni looks like, or how skates are cleaned and sharpened? Well, now you don’t have to. Staff at the Moody Park Arena in New Westminster will provide our group with detailed description and hands on exploration of the ice rink, Zamboni, and skate cleaning machine.
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Welcome to Blind Beginnings!

Children and parents hiking up a forest trail at Summer Camp 2009Blind Beginnings is a non-profit organization striving to guarantee quality of life for children and youth who are blind or visually impaired by promoting equal access to the world's resources and opportunities. We seek to challenge the limits of what is deemed possible for blind and visually impaired children and to establish a strong foundation on which to build rich and fulfilling lives.

Our Mission is to provide children and youth with the necessary opportunities, experiences and family/community support to reach their full potential.

Programs & Services
  • Workshops for children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, and their parents
  • Training Programs
  • Organized Family Activities
  • Awareness Presentations
  • Counselling & Consultation
Blind Beginnings is Unique
  • Our focus is on children and youth, and issues affecting them
  • We are family directed; A minimum of 60% of the Board must be family members of children who are blind or visually impaired
  • We share a "no-limits" philosophy that challenges any attempts to limit what blind or visually impaired children are capable of doing or achieving
  • We embrace and value blindness and visual impairment as an expression of the range of human diversity

Accessibility features of our new site:

We've added many new features to our re-designed site to help you view the pages and find what you're looking for. Be sure to check out each feature:

  • Skip to Main Content : this link at the top of every page allows you to get right to the important content
  • Text re-size: also at the very top of every page, three settings—small, medium and large—allow you to adjust the text to a comfortable reading size for you
  • Our most frequently accessed sections, Programs and Resources are available in the navigation menu near the top of the page. If you want to get to those pages quickly, don't click Skip to Main Content, simply scroll down to these links.
  • Link to Site Map in our Quick Links gives you a list of links to every page on the website, all in one easy place