Golf tournament for blind school

Golf tournament for blind school

JAKARTA (JP): Yayasan Merpati Putih Abadi will hold a golf
tournament on Jan. 29 at the Pantai Indah Kapuk Golf Course,
North Jakarta, to help raise funds for setting up a special
international school for the blind.

The foundation's Budi Santoso said the school would in the
first instance accommodate 30 foreign students, who would be
charged US$50,000 each for an 18-month course on how to walk
without sticks, read, identify objects and colors.

Funds left over from the project, if any, would be used to
educate blind Indonesian people, Budi said.

The tournament director, Poppy Puspitasari Hayono Isman, the
wife of Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Hayono Isman, said
she had invited 160 people to take part in the golfing event,
including ministers, high-ranking government officials and
sponsors. Vice President Try Sutrisno is scheduled to open the
one-day golf meet. (arf)