You may think that is an arrogant statement. However, I believe success in doing good is something to feel positive about, celebrate and encourage.

I aim to be successful, and I am proud of all my good achievements. My success has enabled other people to be successful, and should inspire more people to replicate my success.

Since September 18^th, I have succeeded in providing an IT training service for the Kirklees Visual Impairment Network, to blind people in Huddersfield (England), so that they can use computers with the assistance of software which speaks characters as they are typed and reads what’s on the screen. I have succeeded in teaching volunteers who can see how to teach blind people. The volunteers had no experience of helping blind people before, or providing IT training.

The volunteers have succeeded in their learning and their teaching of the blind service users. The success of the blind people who have received IT training varies, but they have all been successful. For one user, success may be learning to type on a QWERTY keyboard. For another user, success may be the ability to independently use the internet.

Before I co-ordinated the IT training service, I had no experience of recruiting volunteers, teaching people how to use a computer, managing expenses, filling in important documents such as attendance and progress logs, etc. So I am extremely proud of my success, the success of the volunteers, and the success of the IT training service users. I hope the IT training service will continue to be a success for the Kirklees Visual Impairment Network, for me personally, for current and future volunteers, and for current and future service users.