India
HealthSamadhan - Empowered Communities Expand Disability Service
Address
Samadhan
SAMADHAN'S HUMAN RESOURCE CENTER Pocket 2, Sector 2,
DWARKA,
New Delhi
110 047
India
00-11-25073137
http://www.samadhanindia.org
Mission
.To establish an infrastructure of services for infant and preschool children with intellectual disability living in poverty and training their mothers to become our co workers thus linking poverty, disability and women’s empowerment.
Programs
Awareness through puppet theatre; Disability identification surveys, Training of mothers for income generation and marketing products made .Training community women for survey work ; Inclusive Preschool for disabled and non disabled ,Rehabilitation and therapeutic services.; Advocacy for inclusive education with local government aided schools . An online communication Network on mental handicap .Organizing workshops for different levels of community needs
Personnel Overview
Dr. Krishna Vatsa - Director. Dwarka Center
She has previously worked as a teacher in a mainstream school. A Masters degree in Special Education and a Ph.D. specializing in Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) helped her to streamline and initiate projects in the organization. She has organized a Rehabilitation Council of India Course and has been on faculty. She has made presentations in national and international conferences.
Savita Chibber - Director
She has a Masters degree in Sociology and has 18 years of experience in research-oriented employment, collating data, supervision of field staff and documentation of the survey results. She was last with the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, which is a teaching hospital, as their field research officer.
Pramila Balasundaram - Founder-Executive Director
She was motivated to found Samadhan by a niece with Downs Syndrome. A postgraduate in English Literature and Semantics and a brief "hands-on" training in Germany helped her to identify lacunae in services in India, particularly for the poor. She has made about 15 presentations in international conferences, authored many articles and received an Award of Recognition from Inclusion International.
Personnel Statistics
Pramila Balasundaram, Director
Founded in 1981
Employees: 29
Volunteers: 23
Financial Statistics
Budget (2008): 60,000
Budget (2007): 85,270
Maximum Budget: 85,270
Overhead: 12%
Other funding sources: Share and Care, Global Giving, Heart and Hand Foundation, Lebenshilfe, Wien, National Trust of The Ministry of Welfare, local donations, sale of products made by the mothers groups.
