HAPPYHANDS School for Deaf children needs a home to educate many rural Deaf children.
The Happy Hands School for the Deaf, a residential school is run by the Rural Lifeline Trust in the village of Sindurpur in western Odisha and currently has 30 children. Having admitted new children in July, the school has now run out of space. The school is running from a rented premise for the last three years. If we cannot build a new home for our school, we won’t be able to admit any more deaf children next year. This is the only deaf school in the area, and most of our children come from surrounding BPL families, have never been to school before. In the words of Founder & Director Sibaji Panda: “It is now time to shift focus to rural areas which are most neglected. Having worked in cities I have realised that these rural Deaf children to have the right to Quality Education, and a school with facilities equal to the urban schools†Alok has been at Happy Hands from the beginning. Growing up in a hearing family who could not understand him, he was aggressive at home, could not fit into any school, and was considered a hopeless case. Since coming to Happy Hands, his life has turned around: he was the fastest learner of fingerspelling in his group and is now helping younger children settle in.
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September 13, 2019 12:18 PM35-year-old Manikandan, a resident of Madhichiyam in Madurai, who worked as a mason and was the only breadwinner of the family is described by his relatives as a soft spoken man, a loving father and a devoted husband. But three months ago, an unexpected event changed their lives for the worse. Manikandan's 16-year-old daughter had gone to the banks of the Vaigai river to relieve herself, a common practice for women in the locality as their houses did not have bathrooms. However, she soon came back home running in tears, and revealed that she was sexually harassed by a man standing near the river.