Rotary District 5510

Project Brief: Kanhangad, a Rotary MBM Charitable Trust, has been running a special school for mentally retarded children since 1990. The school has its own buildings, serving 49 children with 8 qualified teachers.
Project Type: Children with Disabilities (description)
Primary Focus: children with disabilities (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact: Arizona
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Suman Banarjee
Project Partner(s):
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , Krishna Nursing Home,,Wadakanchery,
Kerala  671 315
Tel: 91-499-2703420
Stewarding Chapter: Arizona
Dec 1999ArizonaUSD 1000
Dec 1999ArizonaUSD 903

Total = $1903

Kanhangad, a Rotary MBM Charitable Trust, has been running a special school for mentally retarded children since 1990. The school has its own buildings, serving 49 children with 8 qualified teachers. Some of the children have a moderate to severe degree of retardation requiring aids for mobility and physiotherapy.
The Society of Ladies of Mary Immaculate runs the Alphonso Home, a charitable institution for the education of orthopaedically handicapped girls, later giving them vocational training for employment and rehabilitation. They wish to provide five electric sewing machines, along with two computers. Rotary Club of Wadakanchery will provide the grant application.