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Meet Erika Garcia

My name is Erika Garcia. It was discovered that I had retinal blastoma when I was 4 months old, but I had sight for 5 years before losing all my vision. Then when I was thirteen, I started losing my hearing. When I was in high school I learned about The Hatlen Center for the Blind from my mobility teacher.…read more


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Visitors from Russia!

Once again we were honored to host visitors from another country, this time Russia! Yesterday, November 30, Doctors Mila Vladimirovna and Marina Dmitriyevna spent the afternoon with us

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This is Jes Smith. I requested funding for an out of state program in San Pablo California. It has been four weeks and I have learned a great deal already.

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Visitors from China!

On Thursday, November 3, we were so very honored to receive visitors from Shenzhen, China.

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