Projects:
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“Vaatsalya Trust” believes
that disability is developmental and human rights issue. This belief underlies
our entire project.
1. ‘AKANKSHA’, Center for
Special Children.
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More often than not special
children are either abandoned or are treated with differences. To help these
children to become self-reliant, AKANKSHA a center for special children was
established on 4th April 2008. The center fosters right environment
to enable them to learn life skills. Our appropriate qualified special
educators pay individual attention and ensure that every child is given a
chance to live a life with dignity in his/her own terms considering their
varying needs. We are trying hard to mobilize, Special Furniture, Adequate
Teaching Aids, and Audio Visual equipments for more creative learning and recreational
purposes. Currently, we have 38 special children on role. These children have
been affected by different issues including Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy,
Autism, and Multiple Disabilities. Apart from the special syllabus that is
taught in the school, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, and Vocational Counseling,
are also provided. We seek to empower these children with the right skills to
fight their varying issues and lead a normal life
Project Strategy
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Creating community awareness about the
special needs of these children and how to meet the challenges.
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Assessment
of the needs of individual children – medical assessment, clinical assessment,
auditory assessment, vision assessment, assessment of physical ability relating
to muscular functioning, speech, memory, and all other functional areas (the
details will be available in the overall programme schedule of each child in
the day care centre).
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Parents’
training on how to help children learn faster, and how to create a space appropriate
to the needs of each individual child.
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Parents’
organisation. Self Help Groups
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Job oriented
training course, establishment of production centre and creation of marketing
network.
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Documentation
and research on the children serviced by the centre. This will be used to campaign and lobby for
better services by the Government and other service agencies reaching out wider
community through knowledge sharing.
2. Mahiti:
