Help 52 Mentally Retarded Children to avail education and normal life.

With our intervention we have successfully integrated 52 MR children into normal life thereby enabling them to get educated along with other normal children. We have also trained some of the mothers as caregivers and they in turn have helped us in identifying more number of such MR/deaf/dumb/blind/Multiple MR children. Well Wishers and individual donors had supported us from the inception, but unable to continue the support due to our expansion to other areas of need.

Hence we cannot bring a stop to the rehabilitation of these needy children as well as the other newly identified children who have not had any kind of intervention, until the Government makes a decision. The intervention needs to be continuous and we will have to continue the support for at least another two more years before a full-fledged support is received from the Government.

1.   Make contact and links with other providers in the area, such as schools, clinics and homes (government and private).

2.   Set up an empowerment centre for the empowerment of MR children and their parents.

3.   Find locations for satellite centres and recruit staff. 

4.   Equip the families of MR children with the knowledge and skills to provide targeted care for children and provide means by which the children can develop a level of independence relevant to their needs.

5.   Equip the families of MR children with the knowledge and skills to provide targeted care for children and provide means by which the children can develop a level of independence relevant to their needs. 

6.   Train staff in order to help them understand how they can take care of the children and challenge them to develop.

7.   Provide workshops in the villages through outreach and the satellite centres.

8.   Improve the accessibility of the provisions. 

9.   Arrange transportation to provisions (hospitals, clinics and the Special Education Centre). 

10. Satellites will provide local support, such as outreach, education and care to those villages that are too far from the primary Special Education Centre.

1.   An empowerment centre for education of parents and mediation between provisions.

2.   A Special Education Centre will exist with the following provisions:

§  Medical Care, Physiotherapy and mental support.

§  Day-care and rehabilitation for the children ages 0- 5.

§  Early intervention centre.

§  Vocational training for children.

§  Resource centre for school going children, separate from the day-care.

§  A resident for children who have nowhere else to go.

§  Utilization of disability aids, such as crutches, braces and wheel chairs.

3.   A sufficient amount of satellites with the following provisions:

§  Day-Care for children who live too far away from the primary centre (our existing special school) or who do not need specialized treatment.

§  Education to families about specific disabilities and how to deal with them.

§  Personalized support for the families with MR children. 

4.   Families with MR children are financially and mentally supported to take care of their child at home.

5.   Children develop and are challenged to do so by their environment.

6.   The local staffs that understands and maintains the goals guarantees sustainability.