Tickets are still available for the Wimberley Rotary Club Dinner in the Dark this Saturday May 14 at 8 p.m. at the Central Texas Theatre Academy benefiting the Cape Town Society for the Blind, which is an international partner.
The dinner is put on by the Rotary Club’s Carrie Campbell, which allows participants to experience an hour of what it is like to be blind while being served a meal.
“The Dinner in the Dark is modeled after an immersive education my daughter and I had while volunteering at the Cape Town Society for the Blind in Cape Town, South Africa,” Campbell said. “A meal is served and eaten in complete darkness. It is a unique sensory experience that allows participants to understand for an hour what it is like for those who are blind.”
The Dinner in the Dark funds go to Cape Town Society for the Blind (CTSB) which helps residents in South Africa deal with the complications of blindness. CTSB is now in need of funds for a sensory room to help train elementary age children who have lost their sight to enter public school.
“Since 2018, the Rotary Club of Wimberley has partnered with the Cape Town Society for the Blind (CTSB),” Campbell said. “As part of that partnership, I traveled to South Africa with my daughter to volunteer on the CTSB campus for a week. The next year, one of the school’s mobility specialists was sponsored by our club to come to Texas for additional training in Austin. We have bought and sold goods from CTSB students to help fund their programs. CTSB is now in need of a sensory room to train elementary age children who have lost their sight to enter public school. The funds needed are about $2,500. The Dinner in the Dark is the Rotary Club of Wimberley’s effort to raise public awareness of the challenges encountered by those with impaired vision, and raise the funds necessary to complete the CTSB sensory room.”
Tickets are still on sale online at rotaryclubofwimberley.com
