People Along the Way #2

This past weekend, Camille, Bill and I spent the weekend at the Helping Hands Family Weekend at NCECBVI. Yes, you are right. It is possibly the longest acronym you may have ever seen. NCECBVI is the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are Blind and Visually Impaired.

The acronym is quite necessary. It used to be Nebraska School for the Blind, but it really isn't primarily a residential school anymore, as education for blind children is now encouraged in a mainstream setting much more than it used to be. Now, NCECBVI is an education center that provides services to our children indirectly through resources and directly through personnel who travel statewide, sponsors camps for children, educates familes, remains a residential school for a handful of students, and much, much more. Nebraska is very progressive in the way that they provide services in a changing educational environment.

Which brings me to "People Along the Way #2".....Sally Giittinger, the superintendent of NCECBVI, who has brought the school so far in the last 10 years. This picture of Camille was taken with her at the end of the weekend we just attended.

So why is Sally one of those spectacular people we consider a gift in our journey? So glad you asked! I wish you could meet her, and then you would just see in a matter of minutes. Sally seeps of enthusiasm for what she does, for the children and families NCECBVI serves, for the staff that work with her. Being around Sally is empowering. It is rejuvinating. It is proof that the world is full of extraordinary people whose hearts are in the right place 24 hours a day, seven days a week (which is often the hours it seems she spends in her job). She's the type of person you want in your family, and certainly the type of person you are proud to know.

She makes the world a better place, and she makes the world a better place for our children.


Here is a little treat of inspiration that she passed along to us this weekend:


http://www.212movie.com/


Okay, if you didn't click on this, shame on you! Do it. Now.


That's better.



Anyway, Sally is a person who truly believes this and puts that extra several degrees of effort into her life. And it shows.

And she does this even though only one degree of effort would have turned the water into steam.


And here is one of the many people whose lives she touches, practicing her cane skills in the halls of "Camp Sally":

Did I not tell you in an earlier post that Camille's cane is one of the cutest inanimate objects you've ever seen?