October is White Cane Safety Day in the United States and the National Federation of the Blind has designated October as Blind Equality Achievement Month.

Below is a  picture of the Gwinnett Family Chapter’s award-winning Jingle Braille Rock Christmas Tree that won the Most Creative Christmas Tree in the small category among hundreds of other Christmas Trees donated at the 2022 Georgia Festival of Trees enjoyed by over 25,000 guests held in November at the Georgia World Congress Center to raise as much as possible for the women and children touched by Wellspring Living - Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST).

Tree Description: this is a  4-foot beautiful Everglades white Christmas Tree with a hidden Motion Sensor Activated recorder that played the song, “Jingle Bell Rock”.  The Christmas Tree Features Braille A to Z Alphabet wooden tiles with corresponding Braille symbols and examples of braille words labeled on a  few ornaments.  This tree is to symbolize how BRAILLE is LITERACY for the blind as PRINT is for the sighted.  The tree comes to life with the holiday spirit with sparkling lights, all its ornaments of vibrant reds, twilight golds,  glittering silvers,  rich wooden tones, soft velvets and little musical instruments throughout the tree to create the sounds of jingle and rock music as cute little blind children with their white canes dance merrily around the Christmas Tree.  Just ordinary people, living life every day.

We were excited to help another organization while educating the public about the blind and how braille is as important to the blind as PRINT is for the sighted.