By Subramania Siva | Managing Trustee
The SIVA Trust staff continued to work for the welfare of around 300 persons with disability in the two blocks of Manur and Melaneelithanallur in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu State, South India. They continued to pursue the earlier given 21 applications for pension, 47 applications for assistive devices, 16 for rail/bus pass and 10 for ID cards. They could get 6 ID cards, two for physically challenged and 4 for hearing as well as speech impaired persons.One polio affected old man got a wheel chair by our effort.
Awareness meetings were regularly conducted in villages to identify persons with disability and provide them with services.
From our side we gave school uniform, shoes, note books, guide books and writing instruments to three poor students with intellectual disability and studying in Government Higher Secondary School in our working village. Our staff actively worked in the special camps organized by Government authorities during August for issuing Unique Disability ID Smart Cards in the two blocks where we work and helped more than 500 persons with disability.They are also mobilising the persons with disability, who are in need of assistive devices, for the special camp being organised on September 4th in the taluk headquarters, Sankarankovil, to identify the requirement and arrange to supply the devices. Now SIVA Trust has become a house-hold name for the disabled population in our working area. Thanks to all those who generously helped us in this endeavor.
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