Empowered Communities Expand Disability Service
SummaryExpanding rehabilitation services from institution to community by creating a body of trained community women leading to transference of responsibilities for the disabled amongst them.
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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $200 was raised for this project. |
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Poor communities are characterized by lack of access to proper medical care and intervention services for their disabled children, particularly those with mental handicaps. This is compounded by ignorance about mental handicaps. Consequently, needs of children with mental handicaps have not been sufficiently addressed. Beneficiaries are persons with disabilities, specifically those with mental handicaps, and women, particularly mothers of children with mental handicaps.
Activities
To organize awareness programs, training programs for mothers of children with disabilities, establish a rehabilitation clinic, place trained community workers as home advisors, and to form Self-Help Groups of women and mothers of the disabled.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $200
Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $200 as of Jun 9, 2004. The original project funding goal was $31,766.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
This project will result in communities that are better able to address the needs of those with mental and physical handicaps.
Project Message
The devotion shown by poor mothers of children with mental handicap humbles me. Empowering them by appropriate training will under gird their innate skills with knowledge.
- Pramila Balasundaram, Founder-Director
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Pramila Balasundaram
Founder-Director
A.59.Shivalik
New Delhi, 11 0017
India
911126 67 4411
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Samadhan
SAMADHAN'S HUMAN RESOURCE CENTER Pocket 2, Sector 2,
DWARKA,
New Delhi
110 047
India
00-11-25073137
http://www.samadhanindia.org
Samadhan's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Intervention for avoidable disability |
 Accessible education for poor disabled children |
 Reaching the Disabled Through Mobile Clinics |
 Empowering Mothers of the Disabled for Partnership |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
India
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 21, 2003
