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Community Service at Kopila Valley

Students from Siddha Bahira practice sign language with Kopila Valley

Last month was community service month at the Kopila Valley Children’s Home in Nepal.  Within the first week of the service celebration, the students had already cleaned litter from a local park, visited and gave gifts to hospital patients and cleaned the city’s iconic Deuti Bajay temple.  Their good work was featured on the front page of the local newspaper as well as on national Nepali television!

On February 3^rd, children from Siddha Bahira, a local school for deaf students, visited Kopila Valley. No talking was needed to play games, share a meal, or face-off in a soccer match. After Siddha Bahira’s chairman taught the Kopila Valley students basic sign language, the students divided into different classrooms to practice together.

As the week drew to a close, the students at Kopila celebrated Sabita’s birthday and helped out with the construction of the school’s new science and computer lab. Despite all of this exciting activity, Maggie, the school’s founder, writes that things are quiet and happy at Kopila Valley. However, she warns to tuned because some “big dreams are brewing!”

To read more about day-to-day life at Kopila Valley, visit Maggie’s blog.