The Monthly News Round Up For Award Winning Advocate, Sight Loss Coach and Author Donna J. Jodhan
For the month of March 2024
Read about Donna’s external engagements
Major news items can be found here
It’s all about Donna’s major initiatives for this month plus a lot more
For this month
Donna’s meeting with the GTAA and CATSA on March 04
Donna’s first meeting on March 04 took place when she met with staff from the Greater Toronto Airport Authority’s accessibility department.
It was a very refreshing meeting and ideas and information were exchanged.
Donna offered her professional services and the GTAA’s team promised to reach out soon.
Donna’s second meeting with the Canadian Air Transportation Security Agency was also quite successful.
Donna was escorted by the CATSA team through the various sites of Terminal 3 at Pearson airport
Where Donna had an opportunity to evaluate and provide feedback to the various CATSA processes.
The walk through was very thorough and the CATSA team did not hesitate to provide explanations.
They were quite receptive to feedback.
Catsa has promised to reach out to Donna for further projects.
Working with Janet Perez on entrepreneurship
Last month Donna and Janet started to work to evaluate responses to questionnaires from those who submitted
In response to entrepreneurial coaching.
This offer was made to the Carroll Centre’s SRUTT graduates.
Coaching sessions were held via Zoom during the first week of March and Donna and Janet are hoping
To expand their initiative.
Donna’s self help initiative
In response to several requests for Donna to expand her ask the coach and catching up with the coach projects, Donna is presently engaged in preparing to launch her self help initiative.
On March 10 she was a guest speaker on Bob Branco’s in perspective show and callers were very enthusiastic about her initiative.
Donna’s self help initiative includes the offering of her mass database filled with a plethora of tips and tricks not just to blind and vision impaired persons but also to those who need help in finding ways to cope and overcome daily challenges.
This database will be offered at no cost to takers.
And how is Donna planning to make this database available?
Thanks to her trusted friend and developer Aaron DiBlasi, she is planning to use various social media platforms to do so.
Stay tuned for more details.
Donna will be working with Bob Branco to promote this project and thanks Bob for agreeing to work with her.
She is very optimistic that she will also be able to include her mental management course within the confines of the self help project
Along with her privacy and protection course.
Donna has 2 additional courses in mind but will wait to gage interest.
Her friend and associate Janet Perez will be providing advice to Donna on this initiative as it develops and thanks to Janet Donna has contacted Dr. Alan Chase. Alan works for the NC Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and is the Founder, President and Director of Envisioning Youth Empowerment Retreat (www.eyeretreat.org) .
DR. Alan has readily agreed to work with Donna and has already made some great suggestions for expanding the self help project.
Donna believes that her self help project has lots of potential and she will be updating her readers further in the coming months.
Donna has just received some very exciting endorsement from Ryan Chin, a financial planner with Sunlife Insurance of Canada and Ryan has connected her with some of his associates.
You can start by taking a tour of Donna’s personal diary by visiting
www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com
Donna posts 3 times weekly and her posts gives you great insights into her daily life, challenges, and perspectives as a blind/vision impaired person.
Blogs posted for this month
To the www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog page
The broken complaints system
The ArriveCan antics continue
The ArriveCan App Antics Continued – And We Can’t Wait to Hear More!
The 60 Million Dollar Faux Pax
The 60 Million Dollar Faux Pax – What More Can We Expect from the Canadian Border Services Agency?
Same old! Same old! The City of Toronto continues to crunch the rights of its citizens with disabilities
Opening the door to self help
You can also view previous selections here.
Donna has also posted other articles of interest on her
www.sterlingcreations.com/blog page
for this month.
News round up for February
Hottest tips from the Sterling Creations Business Desk
See what the Sterling Creations business desk team shares this month
Latest news from the Apple Vis online newsletter
Read the latest accessible apps from the February 2024 Apple Vis online newsletter
A review of the Apple Store in the Fairview Mall
A review of the Apple Store in the Fairview Mall – a store with the true accessibility spirit
A bit of this and a bit of that from Donna’s latest did you know diary
From the pages of Donna’s did you know diary – a bit of this and a bit of that for March 2024
Catch up with Donna’s expert page at
and for this month
Ask an Expert – March 2024 – Ten Tips for Learning the Narrator Screen Reader
Read Donna’s author’s tip for this month
And catch up with previous author’s tips
Read Donna J. Jodhan’s articles on ask the coach for this month
Ask sight loss Coach Donna J. Jodhan – keeping food fresh in the fridge, omlet makers for the microwave, dealing with spills in the microwave
Read Donna J. Jodhan’s tips and hints for catching up with the coach for this month
Catch up with sight loss coach Donna J. Jodhan – Removing Candle Wax Drippings, Getting Rid Of Ball Point Ink Marks, Tips For The Newborn
Read her latest product review at
See an archive of all of her product reviews at
https://www.toptechtidbits.com/news.html
Listen and catch up with Donna’s shows
Week 1 – ask the blogger
(on bullying;
Tips on entrepreneurship;
Scams and scammers;
Donna’s thought for today;
Week 2 – ask the coach.
Week 3 – ask the home maker.
Week 4 – book and product reviews.
“ask Donna”( )
Ask Donna YouTube Playlist: https://donnajodhan.com/askdonna
“dining with donna”
( )
For January
week 1 – Asian Vegetables And Ham
week 2 – Chicken Florentine In Minutes
week 3 – Confetti Chicken Chili
week 4 – Jerk Turkey Stew
For February
week 1 – 3 Cheese Chicken And Noodles
week 2 – Ham And Cheese Pasta Bake
week 3 – Hearty Chili Mac
week 4 – Ravioli Casserole
Dining With Donna YouTube Playlist: https://www.donnajodhan.com/dwd
Finally!
Donna has resumed posting to the Access to Information News weekly online newsletter
Sponsored by Mindvault Solutions!
The ArriveCan App antics continued
The ArriveCan App Antics Continued – It Could Not Get Any Better Than A Soap Opera
The 60 million dollar faux pax – better than a soap opera
The 60 Million Dollar Faux Pax – This Soap Opera is Gaining More Legs!
Same old, same old! The City of Toronto continues to get away with not providing accessible documents and websites
To learn more about Donna as an award winning sight loss coach and advocate plus more visit www.donnajodhan.com
That’s it for this month.
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