Help Educate 500 Deafblind Children in India

We apologize this reaches you slightly later than usual. But we were busy working, praying, and hoping the hardest we ever have in the past 19 years!

In all of our 19 years of working for children and adults with deafblindness and before that – deafblindness has never been officially recognized as a disability by the government of India. This exclusion denied them equal rights as citizens, access to resources and any form of substantial government support. However, at 2.11pm on December 16, 2016, everything changed.

By passing the "The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill – 2016," replacing the existing 21-year-old PwD Act - 1995, the government of India finally, officially included and recognized deafblindness as a disability. We are ecstatic.

Although this is only a beginning, this is a huge victory for people with deafblindness in India, Sense International India and you, too!

For 19 years we have been working our hardest to ensure identified children with deafblindness receive the best training and services we can offer to help them live a better life. But none of this would have been possible without your unending support to our cause.

Every donation is disbursed across the country to aid our beneficiaries while also helping build awareness through effective advocacy. By being included in Bill, deafblind children and adults will be finally counted in official census! This data will help us build a stronger case for our beneficiaries, by helping them gain visibility and access to a wider network of resources.

We ask that you continue to be our friends as we step into deeper waters and take bigger risks to ensure no child with deafblindness is left behind. Your support will help us tread fearlessly in the days to come as we build a stronger world for people with deafblindness.

Thank You for all that you do!