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School Scholarship Program for poorest children in bihar, India |
 These two girls represents the many other girls and boys in Bihar who want to go to school but can not. To enable a child of the poorest castes to attend school and learn to read and write requires funds. KIRF Bodhgaya's Educational Centers serve children of families who can not afford to pay the school fees. By becoming a school sponsor, you will enable young girls and boys get an education that will give them a chance to excape poverty and iliteracy for a happier and more productive life.
Our School Sponsorship Program provides for teachers' salaries, school supplies and regular health examinations for the children being educated in KIRF Bodhgaya Educational Centers.
 KIRF Bodhgaya's plans to build the new school began after receiving the generous support from a private donor in Bermuda. The future educational facility and land will service 9 villages and serve 4 major purposes: school, community center, medical clinic and community orchard. The facility will be the first of its kind in this rural area.
Currently KIRF Bodhgaya operates three educational centers in Bodhgaya which serve 450 children. The success of these related projects, local community involvment and donor support is what has inspired us to build a permanent facility.
 You can become a School Scholarship Program sponsor and receive regular updates about the children. In the United States please make an online donation of $50 or more to KIRF Bodhgaya by clicking here.
Color brochures about the School Scholarship Program are available in PDF format by clicking here.
Photos: Diane L. Kirwin, LCSWII
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| Medical sponsorships for poorest children |
Medical Sponsorships for poorest children in Bihar
 KIRF Bodhgaya has helped facilitate medical treatment for dozens of children who have suffered from afflictions like cleft lip, club feet, heart defects and other serious medical ailments.
Our Medical Sponsorships provides for medicine, care and transportation for children with serious injuries or ilnness. It also pays for regular health examinations for the children being educated in KIRF Bodhgaya KIRF Bodhgaya's Educational Centers.
You can pay for the medical care of a sick or injured child whose family can not afford sufficient medical care and receive regular updates about KIRF Bodhgaya's work in Bihar by becoming a Medical Sponsor. In the United States please make an online donation of $50 or more to KIRF Bodhgaya by clicking here.
For a downloadable color brochures about Medical Sponsorship in PDF file format click here >
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| KIRF Bodhgaya founder: Diane Kirwin |
 KIRF's local partner in India is the Kirwin International Relief Foundation Bodhgaya Indian Charitable Trust (KIRF Bodhgaya). KIRF Bodhgaya is a charitable trust established by Diane L. Kirwin, LCSWII. She is the mother of KIRF founder Mark Kirwin and is an inspiration for many of KIRF's humanitarian projects. KIRF Bodhgaya is a registered Indian non-profit with a board of trustees comprised of local Indians and a permanent office in Bodhgaya.
Diane has been involved with helping the the poorest people (members of the dhalit or Untouchables caste) in the state of Bihar in northern India since 2002. Through her fundraising and passionate support of these resiliant people she has been able build and open the first school available to these children in the area through a non-profit called "Privilege-Sharing" in 2004. Since then she has has sponsored many sugeries to correct birth defects caused by chronic malnutrition like cleft lip and club foot and treatment for emergency care. She has brought over school supplies, school uniforms, donated medical supplies, educational toys, blankets and warm clothing donated by Patagonia. In 2005 she formed the non-profit KIRF Bodhgaya with a board of Indian trustees.
 KIRF Bodhgaya is currently supporting more informal schools in remote villages and, so far, Kirwin International Relief Foundation Educational Centers serve approximately 450 children. Funds are being raised for the construction of a new educational center in a remote and impoverished rural area next year.
These schools provide academic education as well as health services, a food program and family planning for the older students in an environment of love and dignity. KIRF Bodhgaya continues to sponsor promising and needy students as well offer to pay for emergency medical care and surgeries.
To support education for children who have no other schooling available to them other than at a KIRF Educational Center and to become a School Sponsor please make an online donation of $50 or more to KIRF Bodhgaya by clicking here.
Read more about Diane Kirwin:
Please click here to read Diane Kirwin's blog KIRF Bodhgaya.
Before Diane Kirwin founded KIRF Bodhgaya she supported the non-profit humanitarian and sustainable development non-profit IHC Privilege-Sharing in Bodhgaya. Click here to read about the Privilege-Sharing school her efforts built and the free medical, conservation and nutritional programs she has supported.
Local staff of KIRF Bodhgaya
KIRF Bodhigaya presently has 8 teachers, 1 supervisor and 1 driver to service its 4 temporary education centers. The rest of the project is run by volunteers.
KIRF Bodhgaya Board of Directors
- Mr. Priye Ranjan, President
- Dr. Sanjay Mishra, Secretary
- Bhante Priyapala, Treasurer
- Mark Kirwin, Director
- Diane Kirwin, Founder
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