Scholarship For Blind Teacher

Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 19 July 1957, Page 11

Scholarship For Blind Teacher

Blind children in Ceylon will receive more skilled teaching in the future, partly x due to the generosity of New Zealanders. Two of their 22 teachers from the Sehool for the Blind, Mt. Lavinia, will leave soon for scholarships in America, and one will have his expenses supplemented from the money New Zealanders have given to Gorso. The two teachers, Miss Ellen Jordan and Mr H. P. Wijesinghe, will go to the Perkins Institute in the United States for further training. Mr Wijesinghe is the school's senior assistant, and his expenses will be partly paid by Gorso. The 184 children of the school made a determined eft'ort to raise the expenses of both teachers themselves by entertainments. In this way they paid all of Miss Jordan's expenses and half of Mr Wijesinghe's. Gorso then followed its practice of helping enterprising groups overseas, only when their own efforts will carry them no further. The school's prineipal, Mr K. Dassanaike, wrote recently, thauking Gorso for the grant.* "It is a very great relief to me," he said. ^