Dining in the Dark

Each Fall the NECO student Public Health Club (PHC) holds a "Dining in the Dark" evening in which 60 students are served a three-course Italian dinner with wine in the NECO Atrium, blind-folded!

To help attendees negotiate their environment, the PHC invite a licensed Orientation and Mobility specialist along with two current students to train club members in being a sighted guide. Upon arrival, each blind-folded guest was lead by a PHC sighted guide to their seats, with a few stops along the way, including the raffle ticket area and the staircase! The aim of the evening was to enlighten attendees on the difficulties faced by those with reduced sight.

In 2016, the evening raised $1,000, all of which was donated to Orbis International Programs. In 2016, the evening raised $600 which was donated to our Orbis partner hospital, the Kitwe Central Eye Annex, Zambia.