Tuesday, February 26, 2008

‘Mathruchaya’ trains foreign students to serve orphans

Monday February 25 2008 10:17 IST
Manjunath Hegde


SHIMOGA: An orphanage in the city has become a centre for training for foreign students in the art and science of looking after orphans.

Ten foreign students, in five batches, have in the last one-and-a-half years, gained practical knowledge of service to the orphans and Indian culture at Mathruchaya Sarvadharma Anathashram at KHB Colony, Gopala, here.

The latest batch of two girls, one from South Korea and the other from Japan, is going to complete their four months' stay at `Mathruchaya' by this month-end.

Hana Baek, a student of social welfare at Catholic University at Kyonggi-do, Youokkoc in South Korea, told this paper that she is at `Mathruchaya' to learn how to serve orphans practically.

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