Yash Charitable Trust

Yash Charitable Trust is involved in the work of uplifting and easing the life of people with developmental and intellectual difficulties. It has s Read moreet up Its own cafe “Arpan Café” which employs people with mental disabilities. The employees are involved in managing the café, baking breads and desserts, preparing the food and also serving them to the customers. Through “Arpan Food Services” the organisation employs people with significant disabilities. This unit started by providing dabba services in and around Mumbai and has now branched out into catering for special meals and/or individually prepared snack boxes, desserts and cookies. Fresh package of home-grown sprouts, fried onions, and ginger-garlic paste are also made available on order. Its skill development centre are trains people with mental disabilities in skills related to food and beverages. The curriculum has specially been designed to suit people with disabilities and find employment in Arpan Café or any other food and beverage related business. To help adolescents with intellectual disabilities Yash Charitable Trust has set up and Adult Support Kendra wherein a dedicated group of expert counsellors, pshchologists, special educators, occupational and physical therapists guide the people through the child to adolescent transition. Parents are also helped out with appropriate knowledge to handle them. Besides providing employment the organisation also engages the members in music, meditation, social skills and dance sessions. It has a group of paid and unpaid volunteers to take up these sessions which provide relaxation to the enrolled children. It has formed the “Tarang Music Group” which involves the children in music lessons. They are given lessons in Hindustani classical, semi-classical, Western jazz and pop by a parent volunteer. The Tarang team has performed in many cities like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Shimla. It is partnering with Robin Hood Army a social organisation delivering food to homeless children by providing 50 meals per week to feed the underprivileged.

Vision -
To provide opportunities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live and work in the community of their choice with dignity and self-respect.

Mission -
To provide skill development, training, and livelihood opportunities through the Skilling & Supported Employment Project.

To provide mental health support with counselling, consultation, therapies and job placement through the Adult Support Kendra.

> Total of PwIDDs given jobs by YCT & others: 32 persons
> No. of job opportunities outside YCT (through collaborations): 5 persons