Compassion Beyond Borders educates more girls in India than in any other country due to its immense population, its extensive poverty, the oppression of its caste system, its pervasive gender discrimination, and the oppression of its indigenous peoples. All of CBB’s projects in India are with these disadvantaged girls, who are deeply impoverished. According to the latest government statistics, 40% of the Indian people still live in poverty, a reality that has not changed in spite of India’s current economic growth.
Dr. San-Yee So Memorial Nursing Fund
Dr. San-Yee So was a firm believer in education who used to say that no person or government could ever take away our knowledge. She was born in China and went through the Japanese invasion and the Communist take over of that country. Nonetheless, she was able to complete her medical education and practiced as a radiologist in Hong Kong for nearly 40 years.
Jackline, shown here, lost her mother and her means of support just after entering nursing school at the Meru Medical Training College. With a scholarship from CBB, Jackline completed her nursing studies and is now working at a government medical center. CBB supports the nursing education of 27 girls and young women in India, and Kenya.
Nurses' aide training
CBB funds a two-year residential nurses’ aide training program for low-caste girls in Tamil Nadu, India. When their training is completed, the girls take a government examination that certifies them as a Health Assistant. The program then finds employment for the girls in local hospitals that transforms a girl’s life from being uneducated like most girls in her community to being the only person in her family with full-time employment.
Dr. San-Yee So Memorial Nursing Fund
Dr. San-Yee So was a firm believer in education who used to say that no person or government could ever take away our knowledge. She was born in China and went through the Japanese invasion and then the Communist take over of that country.
Fortunately, she was able to complete her medical education and practiced as a radiologist in Hong Kong for nearly 40 years. she was able to support the college education of all four of her children (two with Ph.D.’s), and also the university education of six children of her friends.
Jackline, shown here, lost her mother and her means of support just after entering nursing school at the Meru Medical Training College. With a scholarship from CBB, Jackline completed her nursing studies and is now working at a government medical center. CBB supports the nursing education of 24 girls in India, Kenya and Guatemala.
CBB funds a one-year residential nurses’ aide training program for out-of-school tribal girls in the state of Jharkhand, India that includes learning English and how to use a computer. When their training is completed, the girls take a government examination that certifies them as a Health Assistant. The program then finds employment for the girls in local hospitals that transforms a girl’s life from being uneducated like most girls in her community to being the only person in her family with full-time employment.This program is administered by Amar Jyoti, a project of the Missionary Sisters of the Queen of the Apostles.
Nurses’ aide training
CBB funds a one-year residential nurses’ aide training program for out-of-school tribal girls in the state of Jharkhand, India. The girls also learn English and how to use a computer. When their training is completed, the girls take a government examination that certifies them as a Health Assistant. The program then finds employment for the girls in local hospitals. The training and subsequent employment transforms a girl’s life from being uneducated like most girls in her community to being the only person in her family with full-time employment. This program is administered by the Missionary Sisters of the Queen of the Apostles.
One girl’s story: Pema
At the age of ten, Pema walked out of Tibet with her family of seven to a new life in India as a refugee. The family settled in the Bir/Chauntra Tibetan refugee community at the foot of the Himalayas in northern India.
Pema, who had never attended school in Tibet, was placed in an “Opportunity Class” for one year to determine her level of ability, and then, because of her academic promise, in the third grade of a boarding school in Dharamsala, the home of the Dalai Lama in exile, where she completed her primary and high school education.
Compassion Beyond Borders has supported Pema’s education since she was in the fifth grade. Pema has now completed three years of study at the Manipal College of Nursing in Bangalore in southern India and has been certified as a fully qualified nurse.
