Volunteer With “Read This To Me,” A Service For The Blind
June 13th, 2008
I signed up as a volunteer for Read This To Me over a year ago, and wanted to share this opportunity with you. It’s pretty simple, you just sign up and anytime someone who is blind or low-vision needs help reading something, they go through a process to notify all of the volunteers.
Whoever calls the person back first, ready to read to them, just gets the job done. More info at the FAQ page.
It’s a very cool service, and makes excellent use of Internet technology and good old fashioned humanity.
If you are looking to create some good karma, or have been looking for a good cause to put a few minutes of work in per week (or month – the volume is pretty low), here’s your chance. This is the kind of good-deed opportunity that makes the world go round.
Who knows, you might even make a friend 
More information at the Read This To Me website. Kudos to Kevin Savetz, of Savetz Publishing, who founded the operation.
Jason, thanks for the post. This seems like a great opportunity. In working in the assistive technology field, I have a great appreciation for these types of services. We work with people who are blind and low-vision everyday I can’t tell you how gratifying it is to see how the services we provide make such a difference. Enabling and empowering.
Tige Nishimoto
@Tige, I wish I had a list of other opportunities like this. The thing I like about this is that it requires practically nothing from the volunteer (do it at your house, over the phone).