'If you want something in life you have to reach out and grab it and you have to work on it. So, that's basically what I did,' Calvin Echevarria said.
Company helps the visually impaired get jobsIn 2005, Calvin Echevarria was on top of his game. He had two jobs, bought a house and was raising a 3-year-old daughter with his wife. But suddenly, it felt like it was all being taken away. He could no longer work as a FedEx driver because he was going blind.
Echevarria at first worked on developing independent living skills like walking with a cane. But he wanted to learn more — like skills that would be useful for a job. That's when he found"Seven out of 10 Americans who are visually impaired are not in the workforce," said Kyle Johnson, the president and CEO of Lighthouse Works."And we knew that people who are blind are the most highly educated disability group on the planet.
Echevarria says he was the first blind person he ever knew. But at Lighthouse Works, nearly half of the employees are visually impaired or blind, Johnson told CBS News. has contracts with several clients, including the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity; Lighthouse Works employees help callers trying to access unemployment benefits. In his call center job, Echevarria uses a system called JAWS to"hear" the computer he uses.
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