The RNZFB works with media to promote the organisation's messages and raise public awareness about blindness and Foundation services. Follow the links below to read archived media releases from 2006.

Media releases are in date order, starting with the most recent.

Yet another attack on a guide dog (1 December 2006)
Three cheers for volunteers (30 November 2006)
Chairman's Award to vision-impaired community leader (6 November 2006)
When braille meets art (2 November 2006)
Use it or lose it....or donate to the Foundation of the Blind! Old coins we mean....
Is getting motorists to watch for white cane users the impossible dream?
Blind Week 2006 Media Pack (11 October 2006)
Forty years on and still collecting (29 September 2006)
Getting seriously "Funky Eye Friday" (11 September 2006)
Collect for "blind independence" (31 August 2006)
Foundation Welcomes New Coins; Applauds Consultation (31 July 2006)
Vision-impaired Kiwi kids head for the Rockies! (25 July 2006)
Helen Keller Communication Day - celebrating a unique disability (26 June 2006)
Come-on Christchurch, give a dog a home! (25 May 2006)
6000 bids = $50,000 raised in online charity auction for blind (23 May 2006)
Blind and low-vision equipment on display in Greymouth (15 May 2006)
Tanks, Red Pandas and lunch with Brash – table a tender to help the blind (3 May 2006)
Dame Catherine Tizard named Guide Dog Services Ambassador (27 April 2006)
Blind youth going for gold at Southern Cross Games (10 April 2006)
No moos, quacks, baas or oinks - only dogs will do! (7 April 2006)
3000 volunteers needed urgently for Guide Dog Appeal 2006 (26 March 2006)
Guide Dog Appeal 2006 Media Pack (22 March 2006)
Cost of Blindness - huge and wide-ranging (20 March 2006)
Vodafone - RNZFB partnership bridges digital divide for blind (15 March 2006)
Volunteers are invaluable to the RNZFB - over $15m in time (7 March 2006)
RNZFB Names 2006 HumanWare Narrator of the Year (27 February 2006)
RNZFB celebrates 40th Anniversary of Talking Books Studios and Peeks into the Digital Future (24 February 2006)
Put your best paw forward... (22 February 2006)
Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Recipient of Inaugural Website Accessibility Award (8 February 2006)