Verizon Reads Poster Featuring Erik Weihenmayer
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The text on the poster reads: Verizon Literacy Champion Erik Weihenmayer.
Join Verizon and Erik Weihenmayer in supporting the American Foundation for the Blind and a new career - Braille Textbook Transcriber - that will improve literacy for America's blind and visually impaired schoolchildren.
For information on how you can support AFB, call 1-800-232-5463 or visit verizonreads.net/champions.
American Foundation for the Blind.
Literacy lets you reach the summit of your dreams.
"Literacy has helped me touch the top of the world. I want every blind or visually impaired child to have the same opportunity.' - Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind athlete to summit Mt. Everest.
Verizon Reads is a comprehensive national campaign of corporate philanthropy, customer outreach, employee participation and corporate partner collaboration. It is designed to reach nearly 92 million Americans who have serious problems with literacy.
The American Foundation for the Blind, the organization to which Helen Keller devoted her life, is a national nonprofit whose mission is to eliminate the inequities faced by the 10 million Americans who are blind or visually impaired.
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