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A Project in Memory

As of September, 2009, BODHI has provided US$600 a year since 2006 to a train-the-trainer project in memory of our friends Dr Ken McConnell and Simon Brown, whose families requested that people make donations to BODHI rather than send flowers to their funerals.

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BODHI trains the trainer: Deafness in Nepal

Sangeetha Basnet

 

 

 

 

 

The objective is to aim at increasing the literacy level and health awareness among speech and hearing impaired children in Nepal. The project started with one student, Sangeetha Basnet (left), in April, 2006. Dr Sonal Singh believes that it will be effective because there is a desire amongst the people to learn and know how to read and write. He does annual evaluations to ensure that the project is running smoothly.

Sangeetha's family is from the village of Dolkha, Charikot, a hilly town about 90 miles east of Kathmandu towards Mount Everest. She became deaf at the age of 5 years, secondary to untreated typhoid infection. She is otherwise in good health.

She is the youngest of 10 siblings with seven sisters and 2 brothers. She stays in Kathmandu with her father, who works as a peon. Sangeetha started school late, at the age of 9 years due to extreme poverty and is currently at the School for the Deaf in Kathmandu. In her class of 25, Sangeeta is among the top 5-10 students.

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