Expanding rehabilitation services from institution to community by creating a body of trained community women leading to transference of responsibilities for the disabled amongst them.
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.
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.
This project will result in communities that are better able to address the needs of those with mental and physical handicaps.
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
Total Funding Received to Date: $200
Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed
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 "Project 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.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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