By Daily Press staff
You don’t have to see to be a winner. Just off the famed stretch of Pacific Coast Highway running through Malibu, the Foundation for the Junior Blind hosted their annual Summer Games for blind and visually impaired children this past weekend. The Foundation’s Camp Bloomfield, a 40-acre residential camp located on Mulholland Highway near Leo Carrillo Beach in the Santa Monica Mountains, hosted nearly 200 blind, visually impaired and multiple-disabled children from throughout southern California.
Kids who are blind or visually impaired ages 5 to 12 teamed with sighted “buddies” of their age and competed in Olympic-style events: Track and field, archery (with sounds) and aquatics. Medals were presented to all participants.
The Foundation for the Junior Blind provides programs and services for children, adults, and their families. Programs are designed to enable infants, children, teens and adults who are blind or visually impaired to achieve independence and self-esteem. For more than 50 years, the foundation’s services have helped individuals to achieve their highest level of independence, according to officials. The Foundation for the Junior Blind provides services to more than 6,500 individuals each year from California and throughout the United States with programs that provide education, recreation, training and rehabilitation.
For more information, visit the foundation online at FJB.org.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 1, 2005. Read the original PDF.