By Eimi Olson | Project Leader
In NYF’s 30th Anniversary year, we’d like to share a wonderful story about one of our brightest students – a blind, six-year-old girl from a small village in rural Nepal. Without an NYF scholarship, “Anju” would’ve never been able to go to school.
Almost 25 years ago, NYF began providing financial support for Anju to attend a special school for disabled students in Kathmandu.
A gifted and hard-working student, Anju excelled from first grade onwards. After high school, she won a Fulbright scholarship, and earned a bachelor’s degree from a university in Colorado.
Anju has devoted her life to supporting children with disabilities. She worked for an agency of the United Nations in a remote part of Nepal, and traveled every weekend for hours by bus to volunteer as an English teacher at a school for the blind.
Now, Anju is in charge of implementing programs in Nepal for a foundation that educates children with disabilities. A tireless advocate for these vulnerable children, Anju is just one of the more than 50,000 children NYF has helped in Nepal over the last three decades.
Our Disabled Students Scholarship program, which you have so generously supported, helps to ensure that children with disabilities can go to school, lead dignified and productive lives, and inspire others – like Anju.
Thank you so much for your support!
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