AVBK School
Adarsha Bal Vikas Kendra School
ABVK, (Adarsha Bal Vikas Kendra) is a school for physically and mentally handicapped children in Banepa, a small town about twelve miles east of Kathmandu, Nepal. The school is run by Mani Shrestha and has about 45 children and older students with severe learning difficulties and physical handicaps. Aidan and Caroline Warlow, who have done much important educational work in Nepal, have been involved with the school for several years and greatly admire its work. They suggested that Juniper Trust could help support their work and raise money for a new physiotherapy unit. The implications of the innovative work of this little school will be immense. The medical department of Kathmandu University are taking an interest and coming to look at the school as an example of best practice.
The aim of the physiotherapy programme is to help children with mental and physical difficulties to have a better quality of life, one that will require minimum support from their parents in the future. The benefits of the programme will be many. As well as gaining improved mobility through targeted exercising; by visiting the school, children who rarely, if ever, leave their homes will get to socialize with others and be part of a group. An important rule of the programme is that parents must be present when the physiotherapist works with their child. It is expected that eventually the parents will take over, enabling the physiotherapist to work with more and more children.
£5000 has been raised in order for the project to go ahead with a recent donation of £2,500 ifrom Cotswold Oudoors.
