Reading for the Blind

DATE & TIME:

1 April 2024 - 15 April 2024, 09:00-12:00

LOCATION:

Recording studio, 248 Nam Cheong Street, Sham Shui Po

AREA:

Hong Kong Island

COORDINATOR:

Jennifer Kabana

CONTACT:

[email protected]

What's involved:

Volunteers save articles daily from local news for a two-week period (~two articles per day) on topics of interest. The articles are then read out loud at the HKSB recording studio in Kowloon at the end of this two-week period.

No media training or skills are required! Volunteers with clear voices are ideal.

Step 1: Register to read and the coordinator will send you more details.

Step 2: Pick a 2-week period and begin collecting news stories for that priod. The coordinator will contact you to record your articles at the end of this two-week period.

Here is more information about Hong Kong Society for the Blind.

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