Read: The Deaf girl in the Nepal earthquake who set up a school (via The Telegraph)

The Telegraph has an insighful article about a Deaf girl in the Nepal earthquake who stayed to set up a school.

Read the full article here. Extract below –

“I’ve always known that being deaf made life more dangerous,” Bidhya says. “I have five siblings who all have hearing impairments, and I can still remember the day my three-year-old brother was run over by a truck because he was playing in the street and didn’t hear the horn.

“But the earthquake made me realise that life in Nepal is even harder than normal for people with disabilities, and that there still weren’t enough support systems in place to protect us.’

Specifically, there weren’t enough schools. High up in the Himalayas, infrastructure is poorly developed and children are often forced to walk two or three hours over the mountains to make it to lessons. When they eventually reach their destination, the quality of teaching is hard to measure – and almost consistently without the capacity to cater to special needs.