The National Industries for the Blind inked a deal to produce Skilcraft pens for the government 55 years ago and has been doing so ever since.
Greensboro, North Carolina â More than four million pens roll off the assembly line at a Skilcraft North Carolina manufacturing plant every year.But the people who make them have never seen them and don't use them.'I think that this place saved me,' Stefani Sellars told CBS News. 'It brought me back.
because the unemployment rate for the blind and visually impaired hovers near 70%, according to the nonprofit group World Services for the Blind. 'They wouldn't be working,' responded Oliver, when asked where his fellow employees would be without their positions at Skilcraft. 'They would be at home.''There's a lot of us that are blind or impaired,' Sellars added. 'We got a reason to get up. We got a job, and we have fun doing it.
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