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January 2006: Seedlings founder and director was selected for an award by Harlequins More Than Words Program--Ordinary Women who have made extraordinary contributions to their community. For more information, please click on the following link: Harlequin More Than Words and then click on 2006 Award Recipients. May 2002: Seedlings founder and director was selected as a Michiganian of the Year by the Detroit News. To see the newspaper article, please click on the following link: Detroit News 5-19-02 Seedlings Mission: Seedlings Braille Books for Children is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to increasing the opportunity for literacy by providing high quality, low cost braille books for children. Seedlings History: In 1984 when Debra Bonde founded Seedlings, braille materials were scarce and expensive. Her goals were to increase the availability and lower the cost of braille books for children in order to promote their literacy skills and the love of reading. In 1985, the first year of book production, Debra made 221 books in her basement office. By 1990, Seedlings was producing 5,000 books per year, which precipitated its move out of Debras basement and into the Bentley Center in Livonia, Michigan, and eventually to our present location on Farmington Road in Livonia. In 2006, with a small staff, and a group of loyal volunteers, Seedlings produced nearly 22,000 braille books and articles, with a grand total of 232,008 since 1984, equaling over 11 million pages of braille. In 1994, Seedlings added The Rose Project, which provides encyclopedia articles in braille for students projects and reports. The Rose Project has become a very popular resource for students eager to work independently. We anticipate requests for approximately 800 articles per year. Thanks to generous donations from our supporters, this service is entirely free to visually impaired students in grades 1-12. (To order an article, please click on Special Projects, and then on The Rose Project.)

 

Address: Seedlings Braille Books for Children, P.O. Box 51924, Livonia, MI 48151-5924
Telephone: 734-427-8552
Fax: 734-427-8552
Website: http://www.seedlings.org/