Scholarship For Blind Teacher

Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 287, 8 August 1957, Page 8

Scholarship For Blind Teacher

Blind children In Oeylon will receive mere skilled teaching in the fut'ure, partly due- to the generosity of New Zealanders. Two of their 22 teachers from the School 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 Corso. 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 Corso. The 184 children of the school made a determined effort 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. Corso then followed its pra'ctice of lielping enterprising groups overseas, only when their own efforts will carry them no further. The school's principal, Mr K. Dassanaike, wrote recently, thanking Corso for the grant. "It is a very great relief to me," he said.