By Subramania Siva | Managing Trustee
Our service for the persons with disability under our care was affected to some extent because of the restrictions on the movement of field staff in the lock down period because of Covid-19 threat. But once the restrictions were relaxed, the staff started moving actively and collected the status of all the 227 PwDs in 15 villages where we could work. Many of them were affected because of lack of proper communication and they were re-assured of our support to them. Among them 27 are children and we could re-admit 16 in their special schools by August 2020. Our further efforts resulted in admission of one visually challenged girl in the special school at Palayamcottai in September. Four other intellectually challenged children got admission in St. Anne's Special School, Palayamcottai in October. All of them were issued with text books for the concerned class and lessons are taught to them through online mode or through whatsapp group.
Two new PwDs got National ID card for the first time with our help and since the Government authorities started issuing new Smart ID cards for all the PwDs, we helped all the PwDs who already had the ID cards to get the new Smart cards. Among the PwDs under our direct care, 166 are already in receipt of monthly financial assistance for their survival from Government agencies. We could get such assistance to 2 more during this quarter and pursued the case of 19 other eligible PwDs. All the PwDs were helped in getting the special financial assistance of Rs.1000 each given by Government, as a relief measure for Covid-19 lock down condition and lack of employment opportunities. A few PwDs were helped in getting assistive devices from the Government -- 2 got tricycles and 1 got wheel chair for their easy movement and 1 visually challenged got a braille phone for communication. Since the Government announced Backyard Poultry scheme to disadvantaged sections of society, we helped 20 PwDs in our area to apply for the same and they are likely to get the chiks for rearing in the month of November.
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