SANKALP-IN AID OF DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLE CHILDREN

Dear Kind Hearts

Greetings from SANKALP team

So! We’ve come to the last few days of another satisfying year. As most of you are looking forward to enjoying the yearend holiday season, we want each one of you to know that we’re extremely thankful to have you as our meaningful partners, allies and friends. Some of you have been with us on this journey for quite some time now while some are new, but each of you has helped us come a step closer to our mission which is — to enhance the quality of lives today and accelerate solutions for tomorrow for children having developmental challenges.

No matter how busy and complex your lives are, whenever we’ve requested, you’ve given. When you share your concern for our cause, you inspire us. Because of you, we have been able to enhance the quality of lives of many families from underprivileged section of the society who are bearing the burden of bringing up children having developmental challenges and are not capable to pay for their training and rehabilitation. And that's where you come in. You are the most important part of a growing and caring community.

Witnessing improvements in the lives of children at SANKALP drives every member of our team be it the trustees, board members, staff or the volunteers to do their best and it also gives the entire team necessary push of enthusiasm to continue bringing necessary changes in the lives of children with special needs.

Let’s share with you what one of our interns Nidhi (We've her permissionto use her name) who is studying BSc. Psychology (Hons) at University of Greenwich in London, UK. and had come to Sankalp for a month during her summer break, has to say about her experience of working at Sankalp:

“ Working at Sankalp has been a wonderful experience not only from the learning and volunteering perspective but also as it gave me happiness, satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment that I tried to contribute to the society in my own little way and brought smiles on these children’s faces. I look forward to working with Sankalp in the future as well.

I would like to encourage everyone to visit the Sankalp Centre once as I’m sure that even in one visit you will be able to witness the dedication of the organisation and it’s team in achieving their goals and meet the children who will win over your hearts instantly. Please do volunteer and contribute to the Sankalp organisation in whichever way you can because even the smallest act of kindness might go a long way for someone.”

Before the year 2019 comes to an end we take this opportunity to thank YOU for your kind support to our cause during the entire year. Whatever we have been able to achieve is only due to the assistance and support we have received from YOU. We are committed to continue doing good work in 2020 as well and look forward to YOUR continued support. We also assure you that YOU will keep getting regular updates about what YOUR donation has helped us achieve.

Sincerest gratitude and Warm regards,

Dear Kind Hearts

Greetings from team SANKALP.

Samir is a 17 year old intellectually challenged boy. He joined Sankalp’s training and rehabilitation program in June 2017. His father who was a daily wage labour has expired and mother is doing house maid’s job in few houses. She doesn’t have resources to take care of Samir so she brought him to Sankalp.

At the time of joining Sankalp his self-confidence as well as self-esteem was very low and though he was going to some school but his academic level was almost nil. He was not able to read or write anything. Two years of training at Sankalp has enabled him to write his name and address, he can do meaningful counting up to ten, has learned money transaction up to Rs. 10 and his basic concepts are also developed now. He took active part in making “Diyas” and “Rakhies” during the last festival season and his confidence level is on the rise. His progress in pre-vocational activities has been quite good.

Considering his age, level of intelligence and his area of interest, Sankalp’s experts decided to focus more on giving him vocational activity from this year. As reported in the last progress report, we have purchased a photocopier machine for giving training in making copies to those children who are now ready for it. We also appointed a trainer for giving the training.

Accordingly, 10 children including Samir have been selected for this training. The initial results are quite encouraging and we hope that by the end of this year some of them will become reasonably well trained and they will be able to operate the machine independently with confidence.

We are confident that this training will not only boost Samir’s self-confidence but also his self-esteem. Once he is fully trained he can look for a suitable employment or may be able to become economically independent if he can get some financial assistance to establish his own small photo-copying shop.

This will be the real life changing empowerment for children with developmental disabilities. We’re sure that it will also be a great satisfaction to all our donors that their support has brought positive change in the lives of less privileged members of our society.

Until the next report a big THANK YOU for your support to our project. We will be updating YOU as this project progresses & what impact YOUR donation is making in the lives of mentally/developmentally challenged children at Sankalp.

Our website www.mpctrust.org is still under renovation and we hope to launch a new and much better website in the near future.

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