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Perkins helps children who are blind or deafblind build productive, meaningful lives. We provide education, services and products to more than 1 million people every year in 67 countries.

Perkins helps children who are blind or deafblind build productive, meaningful lives. We provide education, services and products to more than 1 million people every year in 67 countries.

Perkins was founded in 1829 as the first school for the blind in the United States. Today, Perkins advances its mission through five divisions: School for the Blind, International, Library, eLearning and Products.

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For over 60 years, teachers have come from all over the world to study at Perkins Educational Leadership Program. Mrs. Wadad Lahoud Lebanon ELP Graduate, 1955. Founder and Principal of the School for the Deaf and Blind in Lebanon. She still works with local benefactors to support her school.

Mr. Pedro A. Salinas Panama ELP Graduate, 1954Founder and Director of Patronato Luz del Ciego, working with people who are blind or low vision in Panama. He recently received Panamas Best Teacher award.

For over 60 years, leaders in the disability and education field have come from all over the world to study at Perkins Educational Leadership Program, the flagship training initiative for international educators.

Every fall a select group of educators is invited to Perkins historic campus to take part in the ELP. Every spring they emerge ready to make a difference.

Meet two graduates from the 1950s Mrs. Lahoud from Lebanon and Mr. Salinas from Panama who have devoted their lives to impacting children who are blind with additional disabilities.

Both graduated from Perkins ELP and returned to their home countries where today, over 60 years later, they hold leadership positions and recently received honors for their impacts on children with disabilities. 3

ELP graduates have diverse backgrounds and work around the globe, but their careers share the same upward trajectory.Ms. Xiaguang Peng ChinaELP Graduate, 1994Ms Peng currently works for the China Ministry of Education and pioneered programs for multiple disabilities in China.Ms. Delia Gongora ArgentinaELP Graduate, 2006Ms Gongora oversees teacher training in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she has developed dramatic expansion of services for children with multiple disabilities.

The graduates of the ELP live and work around the globe. Their backgrounds are diverse. But their careers frequently share the same upward trajectory.Many ELP graduates, like Xiaguang Peng (pronounced: Zha-guang Pong) of China, rise through the ranks to become prominent educators in their home countries. Since the late 1990s, Peng (Pong) has served as a key liaison between Perkins and the Ministry of Education in China. This collaboration has resulted in the successful launch and ongoing expansion of programs for children with multiple disabilities across China.

Delia Gongora from Argentina is another notable ELP graduate. And though Delia graduated from the ELP just eight years ago, she now oversees teacher training across Argentinas most populous province. Delia helped change an education system that a decade ago educated fewer than 100 children with multiple disabilities. Today, that number is 1,300 children and the quality of services is higher than ever before.Peng (Pong) and Delia are just two ELP graduates who are making a difference around the world every day. There are many more ELP graduates just like them.

With your generous support, the success of the Educational Leadership Program and the hundreds of thousands of children around the world impacted by its graduates will be guaranteed in perpetuity.

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Today, more than 250 Educational Leadership Program graduates are changing lives around the world

Today, more than 250 ELP graduates work around the world, changing the lives of children who are blind, deafblind, and may have multiple disabilities. With the support of the King Faisal Foundation, we will be able to strengthen our presence in member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

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250 ELP GraduatesImpact 67,000 Children

=1,000 Children

2014

To illustrate the impact of the ELP, were going to show you some numbers.

This year alone, ELP graduates are impacting 67,000 children.6

Impact 120,000 Children

Train 3,000 Teachers

250 ELP Graduates

=1,000 Children2014

They also are training approximately 3,000 teachers.These teachers, in turn, will impact 120,000 children.

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Total Impact

Train 3,000 Teachers

250 ELP Graduates

Children187,0002014

Together, these 250 ELP graduates and the teachers theyve trained will impact 187,000 children worldwide.

And thats just in one year 2014.8

Impact 98,000 Children

365 ELP Graduates

=1,000 Children2024

Lets fast forward 10 years, when the Educational Leadership Program will have 365 graduates working worldwide.

These 365 ELP graduates will impact 98,000 children in the year 2024.

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Impact 176,000 Children

365 ELP Graduates

Train 4,400 Teachers

2024

=1,000 Children

These graduates will also train about 4,400 teachers.

And these teachers, in turn, will impact 176,000 children.

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Total Impact

365 ELP Graduates

Train 4,400 TeachersChildren274,0002024

Together, these 365 ELP graduates and the teachers theyve trained will impact 274,000 children worldwide.

Again, thats all in just one calendar year.

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Your support for the ELP Endowment ensures the impact of this important program in perpetuity and supports the right of all children to receive high quality education and support services.

ELP Class of 2015

ELP graduates return to their home countries, eager to share their new knowledge and improve the lives of children all over the world who are blind, deafblind or blind with multiple disabilities.

Your support of the ELP Endowment upholds the rights of all children to receive high quality education and services and ensures the impact of this important program in perpetuity. 12

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