Students in classes 1-5 line up in front of the school before going home. The Bhaktapur school is the smallest that I've visited, with only 25 students and three teachers (one of the tree teachers is deaf and is secretary of Bhaktapur's Deaf Association). The students have three rooms of a larger school. The NGO that funds the deaf school also funds a nearby school for students with severe mobility disabilities. However, there is no funding for next year for the deaf school, at least not yet, and the school may end up closing down. After finishing Class 5, students continue at the Naxal School for the Deaf in Kathmandu or at a hearing school just up the hill in Bhaktapur, which provides sign translators. Unfortunately, many students end up dropping out of school after just a few years.
Students in Class 2 play Memory with homemade cards.
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My mother, after visiting the Bhaktapur school, decided that she wanted to help and bought notebooks, pencils, sketchbooks and crayons for all of the students! The woman on the left is one of the school's three teachers as well as the de facto principal.
2 comments:
Hey Franz, I stumbled onto your The Inner Ear blog when I saw it mentioned on the Creative Writing MFA blog and have been reading this one, too. I've just been accepted to Hopkins' MFA program, and was wondering if I could get some feedback from you on your experiences there. Thanks for your time and congratulations on the Fulbright.
-Rebecca (rebecca dot parson at gmail dot com)
Great blog! I hope you'll consider adding it to the aggregator at Deaf Village (www.deafvillage.com) -- we'd love to have you as part of our community!
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