Arizona foundation for blind children receives new kitchen from remodeling company

PHOENIX (CBS 5) -

Foundation for Blind Children has been helping people of all ages learn to adapt to life without sight. That includes those who've lost their sight as an adult and have to relearn the basics of life in a new way.

"Most of our adults who are now blind lost their vision as adults," said Mark Ashton, chief executive officer of Foundation for Blind Children.

Clients like 50-year-old Patty Montijo, who lost most of her vision just a few years ago, considers every day a new learning experience, "little things that you took for granted when you had sight," she said.

Some of the training she receives at Foundation for Blind Children includes learning to navigate a kitchen.

She's "learning to cook out of a crock pot so you don't [cook] over a fire stove," she added.

These are skills Montijo is learning in the training kitchen at Foundation for Blind Children.

"How do you get around a hot stove when you can't see anymore?" Ashton said in describing the value of what they learn.

"That kitchen is really the first step to getting back your life, to getting back your own independence," Ashton added.

Jim Weisman, owner of Republic West Remodeling in Phoenix, toured the center recently, looking for a way to give back, when he came across the kitchen.

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Arizona foundation for blind children receives new kitchen from remodeling company