Malden Lions Club Collaborates with Malden Disability Commission

As part of their mission, the Malden Disability Commission works to ensure that all persons have equal access to facilities, services and programs. The Vice Chair of the Commission, Chukwuka “Chuks” Ezewuzie, has been focused on this and working with Malden Public Library Director Dora St. Martin to improve accessibility for the visually impaired. Most recently, Chuks and the Disability Commission collaborated with the Malden Lions Club, who graciously donated a braille writer to be used at the library. The writer resembles a typewriter with a combination of keys that is used to create braille characters on paper.

The braille writer was presented to Mayor Gary Christenson and Director St. Martin by both the Commission and the Lions Club and will become part of the “Library of Things” so that anyone wanting to use or borrow the writer will be able to do so. “We were thrilled to partner with the Disability Commission as well as the Malden Public Library,” said Malden Lions Club President Jimmy Luong. “This aligns perfectly with the mission of the Lions Club which is to provide much needed services to the visually impaired.”

“On behalf of the Disability Commission, I want to thank the Malden Lions Club for this donation to our Library,” said Vice-Chair Ezewuzie. “This is a significant contribution to the ongoing project of the Malden Disability Commission to provide and equip the library for readers and users who are blind or visually impaired. This means that patrons who are braille readers can now come to the library and request to use the braille machine to take notes while reading or doing their research in the library.”