The Amar Jyoti Trust
Our Mission
- providing a future for blind children in India
- helping the poor and marginalised to support themselves
- relief of suffering in the tribal communities of rural India
Blind Children’s School
Blind children in the poorest regions of India face a bleak future. Without specialised schooling they remain a burden on their family and many become beggars.The Amar Jyoti Trust is helping to build a new school for blind children in Jharkhand State, a poor region of north-east India. The school will take in blind children aged 6 to 12 from local villages, and teach them to read and write in Braille, so that they can make something of their lives. The children are all very poor, some orphaned or abandoned.
This short video explains how you can give a future to these children.
What We Do
The Amar Jyoti Trust helps blind children and
other marginalised groups in some of the poorest regions of rural
India. The Trust’s current priority is to raise funds for a new school
for blind children at Chanho, near Ranchi in north-east India.
As we have no overhead costs, all donations go directly to support
the projects of our partners in India, the Missionary Sisters of the
Queen of Apostles (SRA). Click the links below to learn how your
donation could make a difference.Blind Children
Schools for Blind Children
Our partners, the SRA, have a long history of educating blind children in India. After great success in establishing the award winning
Jeevan Jyoti School for the Blind in Varanasi, now the SRA wants to
repeat that success in Jharkhand state, a poor region of north east
India. The SRA runs a blind children’s school in Ranchi, the main city
of Jharkhand, giving hope to 20 children from poor families in the
surrounding villages. Without this help, these children would remain
illiterate and could never attend normal schools or learn to support
themselves.
But
this is only a start. To help greater numbers of children in need, the
SRA is building a new hostel and school for blind children at Chanho, a
small town in the tribal belt of Jharkhand state. With the help of The
Amar Jyoti Trust, the first phase of construction is now underway, but
more funding is urgently needed to complete the project.
Chanho School for Blind Children
The
new school at Chanho will initially take 50 blind children, with scope
to expand further. In line with the Indian government’s plan for
Inclusive Education, children with disabilities will be integrated
wherever possible into mainstream education. The presence of a normal
middle school and a vocational training centre on the same site will
help to achieve this vision. Many of the teachers in the blind school
are SRA sisters, who live very simply. This helps to make the costs
sustainable. 
This project deserves your support because:
- The SRA has an excellent track record in educating the blind
- They are working in a region where there a great unmet need
- The benefits are long-lasting and the need is urgent
Varanasi School for Blind Children
The
Jeevan Jyoti School for the Blind at Varanasi, in the state of Uttar
Pradesh, was started by the SRA in 1975. It now has an international
reputation with over 120 children in the special school and a further 75
children studying in normal schools. Many former pupils have progressed
to university and to jobs with government and private industry.
In December 2009 the school received a national award from the Indian Government in the category “Best institution working for the cause of persons with disabilities”.
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