Beneficiaries
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The Greater Kansas City Alumnae Chapter of Delta Gamma is dedicated to raising money and volunteering for the area's organizations that provide services to the visually impaired as well as supporting the international Delta Gamma Foundation.
Children's Center for the Visually Impaired - Kansas City
The mission of Children's Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI) is to prepare children with visual impairments, including those with multiple disabilities, to function at their highest potential in the sighted world. By providing an atomosphere that is rich in diverse experiences, focused on potential rather than limitations and based on sound education principles and best practices, children are prepared for continued success long after their transition out of CCVI. CCVI has helped more that 10,000 children since 1952.
Alphapointe - Kansas City
The mission of Alphapointe - Kansas City is to empower people with vision loss to maximize their independence. There are an estimated 80,000 legally blind or severely visually impaired residents in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Alphapointe offers servies to those who have recently lost their vision and to those who have been blind since birth. Those services include orientation, mobility and daily living skills training, diabetes management, Adaptive Technology and employment skills traning, counseling, Creative Arts, Braille transcription services, and Senior Adult services.
Delta Gamma Foundation - Worldwide
In 1936, the Delta Gamma organization adopted Sight Conservation and Aid to the Blind as an international project. A Delta Gamma, Ruth Billow, had been blind since a childhood accident and asked the Convention body to help improve the plight of those who were blind. Two years later the first Delta Gamma school for children who are blind was opened in Los Angeles, California. There are now four schools begun by Delta Gammas for children, and one of them is the Children's Center for the Visually Impaired in Kansas City. Grants to the four schools and other organizations which further the Delta Gamma Foundation's mission have been over $3.2 million since 1951, when the Delta Gamma Foundation was incorporated. More information is available at: Delta Gamma Foundation.