Reaching the Disabled Through Mobile Clinics
Mobile clinic India
Summary
Many disabled people cannot access our center due to lack of mobility, accessibility, inability to be carried and costly transport options. We will reach them through a mobile clinic.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $9,453 was raised for this project. |
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries are poor families and their mentally handicapped offspring. As busy daily-wage workers, they forgo opportunities for their child’s development. If there are no facilities in their communities, the affected children are denied timely intervention, which can prevent avoidable secondary handicaps. Women, particularly mothers of the disabled, need support to confront problems caused by poverty and their impact on the disability of their child.
Activities
Provide a mobile clinic to reach disabled citizens through identification and referral of patients, treatment of disabled people, and awareness and sensitization activities.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $9,453
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 $9,453 . The original project funding goal was $9,453.
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
Children with mental handicaps will have access to timely identification, and will benefit from services available in their communities and follow-ups at the Center. Prevalence of disabilities should decrease and the community will be better informed
Project Message
The mobile clinics make us feel that we are not forgotten, and we can get support from people like the doctors who visit us and explain everything clearly. We get a lot of hope for our children.
- Maya Devi, Parent from a low-income community in Dwarka
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Padma Rama Rao
Senior Coordinator, Dwarka Center
Samadhan, Human Resource Center
Pocket II, Sector II, Dwarka
New Delhi, 110 075
India
91-11-2507 3137
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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 |
 Empowered Communities Expand Disability Service |
 Accessible education for poor disabled children |
 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 April 18, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
Update on Health Camp in India
By Pramila Balasundaram - Founder-Director of Samadhan, July 24, 2007 05:47 PM
Following the puppet show of 08 February 2007, a Health Camp was planned for 21st April 2007 preceded by a puppet show. The experience of the previous puppet show dictated that we follow up the show immediately with a health camp to benefit from the sensitization created and motivate interested women to become more participatory. The puppet show used the same script, as before. The target community this time was Mahavir Enclave. The camp was conducted in a DDA park and tents were erected for this purpose with a separate enclosure for the doctors.
The main goal was to conduct an initial screening and diagnosis for all people wanting professional help, whether disabled or non-disabled. This decision was taken dictated by the realization that segregating the disabled and providing specialized services did not involve the majority of the community. So all people with medical needs were seen but the focus remained on the disabled who were referred for further inputs in the center.
Dr Bhatia, our pediatrician and head of the Rehabilitation Services was assisted by Sarojini, the community worker, Ved Prakash the Field Coordinator, and Padmavati the Senior Coordinator.
Please click below to read more about the mobile health camp including data about patients and diseases treated.
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