By Sha Nigar | Senior Manager
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the Association of People with Disability (APD).
I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude for your continued support to The Association of People with Disability (APD). Your kind support has given shape to the lives of many Children with Disability. They cannot pay you back. They will pay it forward through their lives.
Once again this year I am participating as Care Champion Diamond from APD in the TCS World 10K Run in Bangalore on 15th May 2016 (Sunday). As Care Champion Diamond, my goal is to raise funds of Rs 10 Lakhs for educating 100 children with disability in SIS by providing mobility aids, midday meals and other educational materials. The minimum amount to sponsor one child is Rs 10,000/- for a year. Your contribution is valuable.
Shradhanjali Integrated School (SIS) : One of our main program SIS founded in 1973, is a recognized primary school up to Class VII under the SSLC Board, with a capacity to educate 200 children. SIS focuses on activity-oriented learning, promoting sports, arts and crafts to ensure all-round development. As most students at SIS are children with disability from under privileged background, facilities like mid-day meals, books, uniforms, healthcare, rehabilitation, transportation and adapted learning techniques supplement their academic inputs.
The Association of People with Disability (APD - www.apd-india.org) is a non-profit organization founded in 1959 and based in Karnataka. We reach out and rehabilitate under privileged people with disabilities. APD’s aim is to create a inclusive society, where people with disabilities are accepted into the mainstream economy and social life. We achieve this through our three pillar programs i.e., Early Intervention, Education and Livelihood (therapy and mobility aids are integrated into these programs). APD is also a recognised Training Institute in the field of Disability by the Rehabilitation Council of India and offers programs for caregivers and on rehabilitation therapy for various stakeholders.
APD is registered under the societies act and employs over 250 employees, has a Professional Governing Board and manages an annual budget of Rs. 15 crores. In the past 56 years, cumulatively, our service has reached more than 5 lakh people with disability through our various programs. We are currently providing services to over 30,000 people with disability on an annual basis. This reach is a drop in the ocean considering there are over fifty million people with disability in India and one million in Karnataka state as per conservative estimates. The need is huge and our resources limited.
I therefore request you to join hands with me to meet this enormous challenge.
I take this opportunity to invite you to visit our campus in Bangalore and experience the joy of lending a hand to the differently abled.
Look forward to your reply.
Best wishes,
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
