Jesuit Home Helps Disabled And Poor Children - Nepal/Christianity
1/2/08
Deepu Kasera bends forward and sips his afternoon tea from a plate in front of him, his hands dangling motionless by his sides. The 10-year-old smiles but cannot move his hands or speak clearly due to cerebral palsy. From Surkhet district, almost 400 kilometers west of Kathmandu, he is the latest arrival at St. Xavier’s Social Service Centre. The Jesuit-run center is helping 85 disabled and poor boys from different parts of Nepal to get an education and develop skills according to their ability. It has been doing this for 38 years. Alok Chaudhary remembers how he arrived at the center. “I was 8 years old in my village of Dhodharpa when my legs stopped working after I got meningitis,” he told UCA News as he worked on a computer in the center’s dormitory. “My poor father brought me to Kathmandu for treatment eight years ago, but the doctors said I had no chance of walking again, so he left me here.”
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