White Cane Awareness Day 2024
Thank you for visiting our page! In partnership with Triple C, we created the Tap Tap C beer to create awareness around the white cane and White Cane Awareness Day, October 15th, 2024.
Special thanks to:
White Cane Awareness Day 2024
Thank you for visiting our page! In partnership with Triple C, we created the Tap Tap C beer to create awareness around the white cane and White Cane Awareness Day, October 15th, 2024.
Special thanks to:
What is White Cane Awareness Day?
- Throughout the world, the long white cane is used by people who are blind or visually impaired as a tool for safe and reliable navigation. The white cane is a symbol of the user’s skills and talents, mobility, and independence. It also allows the sighted person to recognize that the user is visually impaired.The white cane was initially developed and put into use as a measure of safety, especially in traffic situations. Sufficient training with an Orientation & Mobility specialist can aid in successful cane use, technique, and safety. Several countries have traffic laws designed to protect the person using the white cane.
In North Carolina, YOU MUST give the right of way to someone with a long cane crossing the street. Not because it is the right thing to do as a fellow human but because it is the law!
What can you do to help? Learn more about White Cane Day and individuals with vision loss below, purchase Tap Tap C, and support our mission by donating Here
A special thank you to Sherri Thompson for lending us the name of the beer!
Resources
- North Carolina law
- White Cane Fact Sheet (History of the White Cane)
- When You Meet a Person Who is Blind
- Free White Cane from local Lions group Cane-Request-rev.2024.pdf
