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A conversation with Michael Chew on MIB Foundation

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Michael Chew is executive director of the Mississippi Industries for the Blind (MIB) and president of the MIB Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Chew is a 1981 graduate of Mississippi State University, and resides in Madison County with his wife and three children. He recently spoke to Sun Staff Writer Anthony Warren about MIB and the foundation that was set up about a year ago to support it.

 

Didn’t the foundation get started about a year ago?

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