Navigator devices donated

11/11/2008 9:36:00 AM

Cooma Lions Club have sponsored six additional Navigator devices to the value of $600 to ensure members of the community with Macular Degeneration have access to audio books.
Last Thursday Lions Club president Chris Reeks presented the Australian made devices to Cooma-Monaro Shire's library committee members, mayor Vin Good, Cr Tony Kaltoum, library manager Lyn Goucher and librarian Michelle McDonald.

In September 2007 the Monaro Regional Library and Information Service joined forces with the Macular Degeneration Foundation to provide Navigator devices to people with Macular Degeneration.

The Navigator is an easy to use, hand held portable device, which uses new audio technology to read books aloud.

The Library Service launched the project with five Navigator devices. The success of this project was overwhelming and the library applied to the MD Foundation for a further five devices in February 2008. With more and more residents applying for this service, Cooma Library approached the Cooma Lions Club for sponsorship of an additional six Navigator devices.

If you have been diagnosed with Macular Degeneration and are having difficulty reading, then you are eligible to submit an expression of interest form to the Macular Degeneration Foundation. Forms are available from the Cooma Library.