Easter Seal official speaks at RHA meeting!
By Mindy L. Leiter
Staff Reporter
The Easter Seal Society needs help
in raising funds to help children and
disabled adults, a Nebraska represen
tative for the society said at RHA’s
Sunday meeting.
Martha Cham
berlain, director of
development for
Nebraska Easter
Seal, gave the Res
idence Hall Asso
| ciation members
-I ideas of ways they
could help the society further its cause.
The Easter Seal Society, which
will celebrate its 75th anniversary in
1994, provides services to children
and adults with disabilities to help
them become independent, she said.
The society purchases hearing aids,
wheelchairs, crutches and walkers for
disabled people, Chamberlain said.
The Easter Seal Society donates
wheelchairs to families, even if they
aren’t technically needy, she said.
“We give equipment to anyone
who needs it,” she said.
Chamberlain said insurance and
government programs did not always
cover the costs of expensive services
for the disabled.
Karen Jones, mother of the Ne
braska Easter Seal Ambassador child,
Nicole, said she needed the society’s
help when her daughter was injured in
a car crash.
The one-car crash that occurred in
1985, killed Jones’ husband and left
her youngest daughter, N icolc, a para
plegic.
A lew years after the accident,
Jones’ insurance company dropped
Nicole from the family policy.
Jones said noother insurance com
pany would sell her a policy that
covered Nicole, so she was left with
the bills for the expensive care N icole
needed.
The costs of Nicole’s care were
burdensome, she said. Nicole’s wheel
chair costs thousands of dollars. Nicole
also uses a body brace to support her
spine that costs from $ 1,200 to $ 1,600.
Jones said the Easter Seal Society
absorbed some of the costs of caring
for her daughter by providing the
equipment Nicole needed.
“I don’t know what we would have
done without Easter Seals,” she said.
Jones said Camp Easter Seal, which
is supported by Nebraska Easter Seal,
also helped hcrdaughterbecome more
independent. The camp, which is lo
cated in Milford, is open during the
summer.
Chamberlain said counselors at
Camp Easter Seal helped give dis- i
abled children and adults an opportu
nity to challenge themselves.
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