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OUR PROGRAMS

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PROGRAM 1 - EARLY INTERVENTION

Early intervention is a preventive program which has been started in 2017 with the association of DNA disability NGO alliance. Srushti Special Academy is a skilling partner of DNA to Develop the Human Resource.

Through this program, we identify the delay in development of children in the slum of our working area and work on their Rehabilitation. To Identify and start Rehabilitation of delayed development children from the stage of beginning (before 3 year’s).

Base Line Survey done in 9 BBMP Wards

• Visited most of Anganwadi, Primary Schools, Hospitals and Door to Door
• Identified 70 Delay development children in that 20 children are within 10 Age and 50 below 6 years
• Home Visits has done from the field worker, Program Manager, and Operation Manager
• Basic Assessment done in VNF Centre with Rehabilitation Therapist
• Secondary Assessment and Measurement did with an Expert therapist and Orthotic.
• 20 Rehabilitation Files has been done with the guidelines of Srushti Special Academies and Disability NGO Alliances 
• Home visits too have started
• Plan to start Early Intervention centre in April 2018, Daily living management, Parents training, Appliances Support, and Therapy.

 

Objectives

Promote Early Stage Intervention and Early Education among children with developmental Delays between the age group of Birth to 6 years (Relaxation of 2 years (i.e. 0 to 8 yrs).

• Training of parents both in rehabilitation and further prevention of disabilities through structured training programs, counseling sessions, peer interactions and orientation to future possibilities
• Capacity building of local stakeholders such as PHC doctors, Health Workers, Asha Workers and Anganwadi workers in order to ensure early identification, referrals and follow up support.

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PROGRAM 2 - LIVELIHOOD

Through our observation, we have noticed that disabled youths lack in basic employable skills like Basic Computer for office work manageable English, work ethics, policies in the companies, retail management, disability management, and other needed skills. So we have taken the initiative to train disabled youths on needed skills.

To support the rural disabled youth’s of North Karnataka, we have started Livelihood skill development training with free of Food and Accommodation facility.

We have done Mobilization from Belagavi, Raichur, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Koppel,  Shivamogga, Chikkamagalur, Yadgiri, Hassan, Tumkur, Mandya, Gulburga and Bangalore Urban slums, and Identified disabled individual’s & bring them into our Organization.

From 15th May 2017 training program started, we trained more than 310 individuals after that we did job placement in D-MART, BIG BAZAR, HATTI COFFEE, G4S Securities, ANZ, etc.

• Basic Computer
• Communication English
• Retail management
• Life skills and Personality development training
• Work ethics, Work Pressure, Time Management, Money Management, Health Management, Accommodation & Travel Management importance of Behaviour in the workplace.

 45 days of the full residential program which changes the mindset of disabled youths who are come from remote villages of North Karnataka like {Belagavi, Gadag, Koppel, Bagalkot, Dharwad. it also helps them to adjust to stay in Bangalore. We take them for an exposure visit to show them how other disabled people are working in a different sector.

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PROGRAM 3 - COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION PROGRAMME (CBR)

Disabled people are suffering a lot with discrimination and lack of awareness about their available resource in Government so VNF selected 9 BBMP wards of Bangalore North West to help through various programs like Disability ID Card, Disability Pension, Train and Bus Pass, Petty shop and Insurance by Government.

• Swavalamban Health Insurance Survey Program

Swavalamban is a National government health insurance scheme for people with disability, VNF started survey program to identify and facilitate Disabled people to get that scheme, and we have selected 3 BBMP wards in the 1st phase and identified 200 people with disability.

In 2nd phase identified 130 PWDs in other 4 wards and requested MLA to contribute 10% {359 Rs} of fund which the disabled people has to pay the government, he agreed and suggested us to identify 1000 disabled people in his constituency.   

• Wheelchair Training Workshop

On 28th July 2017 through Disability NGO Alliance we have invited to attend One-day wheelchair training workshop in Mobility India Bangalore.

Director of Disability welfare department, around 13 District Disability welfare officers attended the workshop, they have given information on types of a wheelchair, what are important factors need to focus during wheelchair distribution, wheelchair training importance, maintaining techniques much more information has been shared by experts, and many wheelchair users shared their real experiences.

From VNF 3 people attended the workshop, this workshop helped us get many information about wheelchair   

• Orientation to DPO Members 

Voice of Needy foundation facilitating disabled people association in Mahalakshmi Puram to network Disabled through our 7 BBMP wards and Mahalakshmi layout Constituency, through this DPO we are giving awareness to the people on disability and access the Government schemes from BBMP, Bangalore District disability welfare department, MLA, MLC, MP and National Government.

On 26th July 2017 Organized Orientation meeting on Livelihood opportunities of disabled people in Bangalore and Voice of Needy foundation Livelihood program. Many DPO leaders involved actively and they have committed to spreading the information about the program in the community.

•  Evening Resource center

As our regular program for Orphan and Poor children, Evening Resource center started in Shankarnagar.

Selected children from Vijyanandangar, Krishnanandanagar every day come to the resource center at 5 o clock use all library books and we teach the children to prepare for their Examination.

•         Senior Citizen cards distribution

As per our regular distribution program this time we have identified 65 senior citizens from Gorgontepalya, koollinagar, Vijayanandanagar and distributed senior citizen cards. 

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SUCCESS STORY - 1

INTRODUCTION

Lohith a 22-year-old person with disability, he is from Chikamangalore,family is dependent on agriculture and other allied occupation like cattle rearing. 

Complications during his birth affected his brain and one side of the body became paralyzed. Lohith became more dependent on the family for all his activity, In the village he doesn’t have a livelihood option and he is also not willing to continue his education, he was assisting his mother on cow rearing, he handles the cow gracing responsibility, the family had fear about his future.

INTERVENTION  

One fine day his brother found an article about VNF – PANKH program in Newspaper, he called and got information about the training employment for people with disability, next day he convinced Lohith and family, and finally in the month of October 2017 Lohith joined the training.

After Registration to training during observation and counseling  we came to know he is severely depressed and doesn’t have hope about his career, It was a very hard to counsel him. VNF always insisted him to learn practically and orally not in a written way, at end of training he was very depressed he solely attended the training due to family. {This has been said directly to VNF trainer during his end of his training}  we were in a hard position to change his mind finally, we assured him to get only a week of training.

OUTCOME

We had sent him to attend an interview in BIG BAZAR, D-MART and MAX finally he got placement in G4S security service for backend work in MANYATHA TECH Park. Now he is getting the 14000Rs salary. His brother& family really surprised with the Job and salary and they Thank VNF for changing the life of Lohith.

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