Colleen Pryce can't read or cross the road by herself but she still enjoys playing bowls.
She's the part-time administrator of the Wanganui branch of the Blind Foundation, which has street collectors out for its annual appeal today and tomorrow.
Mrs Pryce wasn't blind when she started working for the foundation six years ago. But four years later her eyesight started deteriorating rapidly, due to macular degeneration. She's now partially-sighted.
She can't recognise faces and needs help to cross the street, but is enabled to carry on working by a screen magnifier that gets its picture from a closed circuit camera. She also has a device that reads documents, while she listens through a headpiece.
The Wanganui branch of the Blind Foundation helps people with vision problems in a large region that includes Taihape, Ohakune, Waverley and Marton. They first have their vision assessed and then get help to carry on their lives.