School for Potential Advancement and Restoration of Confidence-SPARC India

SPARC provides rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their families through its various developmental initiatives in the fie Read moreld of education, skill development and livelihood generation. The organisation has established a special school in collaboration with Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Jyoti Kiran, for children affected with Cerebral Palsy. The school has 55 students who suffer from cerebral palsy and other forms of disability such as hearing impairment, speech impairment, vision impairment and mental retardation. Its second initiative is Community Based Rehabilitation programme which is in collaboration with international organisations such as Action Aid and CORDAID. The objectives of the initiative include medical interventions such as training midwives on conducting safe deliveries, training mentally challenged and visually impaired children to perform their daily chores and providing tricycle, crutches, wheel chairs, toilet chairs and hearing aids. Also, the initiative includes awareness programs and establishment of a resource centre which provide therapeutic intervention on multiple disabilities. Further, the initiative includes financial management training and entrepreneurship development programs. The organisation's third initiative includes the Livelihood Resource Centre (LRC) in collaboration with Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled which includes establishment of training centre for persons with disability for skill development. The fourth initiative by the organisation includes The Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme which is in collaboration with the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) and is aimed at reducing the gap in well-being between socially excluded groups in India and the rest of the population through non-discriminatory access to healthcare systems.