1.

Persons with the risk to become blind
Persons with Low Vision
Totally blind persons
Multiply handicapped blind persons

2.

The CFBT will cooperate with GO's, NGO's and INGO's, who will be funding partners, or partners of consultation or action, to perform its programs.

3.

The CFBT will actively encourage donors within our country to participate with our work. The donors will be private persons, companies, and government institutions.

4.

• Health Program : Prevention of Blindness Program (PBL), Rehabilitation Program:
  
  In accordance with the international movement "Vision 2020 - The Right to Sight", we wish to spare as many people as possible the fate of unnecessary blindness.  By conserving them the ability to see, we will enhance the good feelings of the clients. We also support the idea that it is an economic advantage to prevent blindness than to deal with it.
  
  The CFBT will co=operate with the local hospitals and District Health Centers launching "Blindness prevention" programs for those who live with the risk to become blind.
  
  We will work in cooperation with the medicinal personnel who will screen patients and carry out surgery where necessary, for prevention of blindness and for suitable therapy.
  
  

• Low Vision Program (LV):
  We will advocate the use of optimized methods to assess low vision.  According to the individual assessment at the villages where the people live, we will provide suitable instruments, e.g. magnifiers or CCTV devices, suitable learning materials like Large Print books for school attending children with low vision, give advice and exercises to the persons with low vision, and to persons in their social surrounding,like teachers, parents, government officers or friends. We will publish a handbook respectively.
  
  

• Community-Based Rehabilitation Program (CBR):
  Many people in the rural areas are, because of ignorance, because of unavailability of information to them, because of poverty, or other reasons, not able to seek for assistance at a government office or at a CFBT center.  They have rights.  We will go to their homes and assist them, collaborating with the government, accordingly with the full program as available and necessary.
  
  

• Preparatory Program (PP):
  Before a child is able to enter a regular school together with sighted pupils in Integrated Education (IE), he or she mush learn daily living skills: how to move, how to eat, how to get dressed, how to walk, etc.  He or she must learn how to use Braille, etc.  We teach these skills to the children and prepare them, also with basic school subjects, so they will be able to be educated in IE schools.
  
  

• Integrated Education Program (IE)
  Blind children used to be educated in special schools, if they received any education at all. with new laws in Thailand, they have the right to attend schools together with sighted children, in IE  This concept being the best way to educate and socialize them, the CFBT will assist those who have enough capacity to study with their education so they can be fully integrated in society.
  
  The CFBT will assist the Visually Impaired (VI) Children to be educated and rehabilitated regarding their individual needs.  The CFBT will provide to teachers and parents, suitable learning materials, a dormitory program, where necessary, food, transport to and from school, etc.
  
  

• University Studies Program
  For those who study at colleges and universities, we will find and provide scholarships, if necessary, Braille, taped and large print learning materials, and technical equipment, and give technical advice to both students, and universities.
  
  

• Vocational Program
  The CFBT will assist Adult Blind Persons to be able to sustain themselves to live in decency and have an independent life by its programs as follows:

  - Vocation Training Program
  - Assistance to start SME's Program
  - Loan Funds Program
  - Revolving Funds Program
  - Job placement of the blind

  We will, in a family-based program, train VI persons suitable vocational skills so they can be employed or start their own SME's (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises).
  
  We will help VI persons, who are able to work, to find and get a workplace.
  
  Where appropriate, we will give them revolving loans at a low interest rate to start up an existence
  

5.

a)  Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Programs

• The Roi-Et center will continue its CBR program.

• The Lampang center will continue its CBR program.

• The CFBT plans to start up a CBR program at the Khon Kaen center.

b)  Multiply Handicapped Blind

• The Multiply Handicapped Blind Rehabilitation Program will continue at the Bangkok Roi-Et, and the Lopburi centers in the years 2003 ff.

• The CFBT will transfer blind persons with additional disabilities to the Bangkok or, respectively, to the Lopburi centers.

6.

The CFBT will arrange the opportunity to touch the spirit of God to those Visually Impaired Persons who wish to have this chance:

A special Spiritual Development Program will be given at the Khon Kaen center in the years 2003 ff. in the form of Sunday School and Service, held by a pastor of the Khon Kaen Church.

• Management skills training program for key staff; this program will cover the following fields:
  

  Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling (Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Auditing)
  

• Developing and providing an Operation and Administration Handbook

• Improving the Foundation's communication system

• Improving the Foundation's financial system

• Developing and establishing Information Centers (IC) for the public

• Holding seminars for the Board Members

• Evaluating the Foundations procedures

• Another focus will lie on the technical upgrading of our staff

8.

The CFBT will maintain and develop its service facilities as follows

Centers

The CFBT will maintain six service centers as follows, with the following main services:

Education Center for the Blind (ECB)
The range of services at Khon Kaen will not only comprise the following:

Khon Kaen will expand its activities and service fields. In addition to our present services, we will also act in the following fields:

Education and Rehabilitation Center for the Blind
The scope of services at Roi-Et will remain unchanged, as follows:

Korat

Education and Rehabilitation Center for the Blind Nakorn Ratchasima (Korat is the popular name for "Nakorn Ratchasima")

• Dormitory

• School for the Blind

• Preparatory Program

• Integrated Education

• Low vision

• Non-formal Education Program

• Technical services

• Media Production

Lampang Skill Development Center for the Blind

• Dormitory

• Preparatory Program

• Integrated Education

• Low Vision

• Rehabilitation

• Technical services

• Vocational Training

• CBR

School for the Blind and the Multiply Handicapped Blind

Lopburi is operating our School for the Blind and for the Blind with Additional Disabilities (Multiply Handicapped Blind).  Its activities will specially focus on Multiply Handicapped Blind (MHB).  This school serves blind adults, whether transferred from Bangkok or new arrivals.  They received training with an employment perspective:

The Lopburi enter will cooperate with the Bangkok center in its work for the MHB in Thailand.  The management of these centers will accordingly be developed.   Case studies must be done.  A handbook will be developed as a manual for the CFBT's own use and for the use of others who are servicing MHB persons.

Home for Multiply Handicapped Blind Children
For blind children with additional disabilities:

Our Home of the Blind at Bangkok needs to have more space for children so they can have better facilities for exercises and physical rehabilitation.  The subjects of the children's rehabilitation need to be revised and developed:  Daily Living Skills, Orientation & Movement, emotional treatment by use of music etc.   The physical therapy needs to be further heightened and the general work needs to be upgraded to also contact the families of the children.  Our services will comprise the following areas:

General service:

Head Office

The CFBT head office at Khon Kaen will be made fit for the needs and activities of the future.  We will monitor and update our structures and the system of our management whenever and wherever necessary, to be in compliance with the ever changing environment.  We will perform this task by the following strategies.

New areas of target : Another 3 areas in Thailand

With a regional expansion of our services, the CFBT plans to have new centers in

Thus we will operate at a closer distance to the people who need our assistance.  The CFBT will not concentrate on the South of Thailand, as this is a Muslim-dominated area and harder to access.