Perkins School for the Blind

2014
Education
Watertown, MA, USA
Project Title: Building Capacity for the Education of Blind and Multiply Disabled Children in Brazil, Chile, Peru and Guatemala Website: http://www.perkins.org

About the Grantee

Perkins is a progressive, multi-faceted organization committed to improving the lives of people with blindness and deafblindness all around the world.

Purpose of the Grant

To help sustain Perkins’ effort to increase the quality and accessibility of education for children who are blind and multiply disabled in Brazil, Chile, and Peru and to enable the Fundal School, Perkins’s anchor partner in Guatemala, to continue helping make quality, inclusive education more widely available to children who are blind and multi-disabled in Guatemala and neighboring Central American countries.

Amount

$803,805

Term

48 months

Grant Regions

International, Latin America & Caribbean