A 15-year-old school girl from Newstead Wood, Orpington, has taken on the challenge of raising money to buy typewriters for an orphanage school for the blind in Sri Lanka.
Kaanjana Rameshkumar and her family are originally from Jaffna and Trincomalee, Sri Lanka and they are working with other families to give typewriters to young children who are blind, in partnership with Lotus Caring Hands Organisation.
When I asked Kaanjana why she was doing this, she said that, “It’s helping people in our mother country and my dad found out about it through his old boys society and he thought that it was a really good idea.”
Lotus Caring Hands Organisation focus on education for children, emergency relief preparation and orphans and child welfare. They have many orphanages and schools across Sri Lanka and the Rameshkumar family, including others like them, are trying to raise £170 to buy typewriters for the blind children. To raise money, Kaanjana will have a stall at her school’s Christmas fair, where she will be selling food, drinks and craft products to the students of Newstead Wood.
If you want to find out more about Lotus Caring Hands Organisation visit http://www.lotuscaringhands.org.uk/about-us or take a look at Kaanjana’s stall on Wednesday 13th December.
