WELCOME!

This is the first step in what is planned to be a several stage development of our presence on the web site. Although this is a simple beginning, eventually we hope to have voice/response capabilities, on-line ordering and indexing for our blind and partially-sighted clients, and as the technology continues to evolve, we look forward to being able to use the latest developments to help serve our friends and clients around the world.

Please feel free to explore and learn more about the Xavier Society for the Blind, in continuous operation since 1900 in service to the blind and partially-sighted. We have never charged for our services, and continue to rely on generous donors and supporters. For those who cannot afford to contribute financially, we welcome your prayers, and invite you to visit our Volunteers section, to see if there are other ways you can help this important and rewarding work.

Please contact us either by phone, by email (there is a section here called "Contact Us") or regular mail, or, if you are in the neighborhood, just by dropping in to introduce yourself. If you know someone who might benefit from our services, please tell them about us. We welcome comments, suggestions (and yes, even criticisms) of anything we do, especially this new website; your thoughts help us serve better.

Fr. John R. Sheehan, SJ

Chairman of the Board

Xavier Society for the Blind

Address: 154 East 23rd St, New York, NY 10010

Phone: (212) 473-7800; or (800) 637-9193; or FAX (212) 473-7801

I who am blind can give one hint to those who see - one admonition to those who would make full use of the gift of sight: use your eyes tomorrow as if you would be stricken blind. And the same method would be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again.

(Helen Keller)