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)