By Jacqueline Frost | Development and Communications Manager
Thank you for your generous contributions to our project to Provide Education to 20 Disabled Children. This program’s accomplishments, including giving the life-changing opportunity of education to more than 100 blind, deaf, and physically disabled students in Nepal, would not be possible without the support of people like you.
Our Disabled Scholarship fund has helped blind, deaf and physically disabled children who are often treated as discards in Nepal's caste society. We send the children to special schools, which are set up to care for them physically and academically. Our students thrive. Last year, 90 percent of the students from grades 1 through 9 made it through their annual examination and have been promoted to the next grade.
Meet Angel. Blind and struggling with diabetes, the entering third grader lives with her parents and sister in a rented room and travels a great distance to go to school where she is learning to read and write in braille. She said she endures the long commute because she loves to learn.
NYF supported students have gone on to great successes. One student went on to become the only blind lawyer in Nepal. Others have gone on to teach at private schools. Another is now leading his own non-government organization (NGO) to help disabled students in Nepal. Students develop self-respect as well as the skills to support themselves and live with dignity.
We are grateful for your continued support.
Namaste.
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