Ludhiana, October 25
The Rotary Club of Greater Ludhiana in collaboration with the Surrey-Newton Rotary Club, with financial assistance from the Rotary Foundation India, today provided a speech therapy lab and furnished the classrooms with the latest learning aid equipments at the School for the Deaf Children, Hambran Road.The School for the Deaf Children located on Hambran Road, is the first school to receive facilities of a modernised audiometry centre. Premod Dada, General Secretary, Ludhiana Education Society/School for the Deaf Children, said it had been possible due to the institutional grant given by the Rotary Foundation.
The centre was formally inaugurated by Sarabjit Kaur Romana from Canada, whose club was an international partner in the global grant today.
In addition to the centre, all the fourteen classrooms have been furnished with new furniture, designed to the suit need of the special children.
Former Rotary district governor, KK Dhir arranged the grant of Rs 25 lakh. Romana who had come from Canada to inaugurate the project, said the project would help students of the school receive sophisticated academic input which may partially restore their hearing and speaking ability. She appreciated the cultural programme presented by the students and assured to extend support whenever the need arose.
Dhir said the Rotary Foundation catered to the needs of the under privileged society all over the world. The club had spent Rs 10,000 crore to eradicate polio and hoped that countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria will also be polio-free in the near future. The Rotary Foundation had now taken up the challenge to remove illiteracy from India in the next two or three years by implementing its ‘TEACH programme’, said Dhir.
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