Gentle Ben
Gentle Ben

The city’s Rec and Park department has a laundry list of vital services and support for the hearing impaired, the sight impaired, and seniors. One such program is Project Insight run by Bernardus Oude Kamphuis, 6 foot 7 inch, “Gentle Ben”. I first met Ben at Camp Mather, the family camp run by Rec and Park near the Hetch Hetchy Dam and Yosemite. Ben was leading a group of sight impaired young people in tent camping. Ben joins me on a Skype-video to tell me about Project Insight programs, who is served by them and how Project Insight may be discarded because of budget cuts. Can Rec and Park find the money to save this critical program? Watch or listen to Gentle Ben.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Gentle Ben
