DEAF SCHOOL DEVELOPMENTS

We are now funding two new teachers at the School for Deaf Children in Bhairahawa.

This has enabled them to open Class 9 for the first time, and next year will see these children progress in to Class 10 culminating in them appearing for the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) (the Nepali equivalent of GCSEs) in March 2009.

This is a huge success for EBT: when we first became involved the school was only operating as far as Class 5!

The school will become only the third one in Nepal to offer SLC to deaf children (after the far more affluent Kathmandu and Pokhara Schools).

Thanks to the Lions Club of Tjerk Hiddes Harlingen/Franeker in Holland we have been able to build a new kitchen and dining room for the school hostel; previously the children ate in shifts in the corridor.

As part of the project new toilets are also being built. Before over 150 children shared just two toilets that were regularly blocked, now these four new toilets will lead into a new BioGas plant that will create methane to cook on.

Currently we estimate that they use at least to 20 tonnes of firewood a year.
Chandra has been selected for the 200-metre race and the relay event in China, having won many medals and trophies in his preferred 200m and Shot Put at National Level events in Kathmandu over the last couple of years.


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