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By Kamlesh Tripathi
Rural
women and Divyang persons are often exploited since they are financially not
independent. Project Swavalamban is a brain child of Ramanujan
Foundation to provide employment exclusively to rural women & Divyang
By Kamlesh Tripathi
RAMANUJAN
DIVYANG REHABILITATION & SKILL DEVELOPMENT CENTER
My mother’s birthday
falls on the 15th of August—that happens to be our Independence Day.
She is now no more, but I continue to remember and celebrate her birthday each year
in a virtuous manner. And, pursuing the cause as ever, I wanted to do something
different again this time, when I came to know that Ramanujan Divyang
Rehabilitation & Skill Development Center—located in Palwal is
celebrating the Independence Day in a noble manner, so I decided to visit them
on that day. The center works for children with special needs. And
on the occasion of the Independence Day they had planned for a musical
extravaganza where all the protagonists were children who were hearing
impaired.
The programme commenced with the chief
guest Shri Vipul Goyal, a cabinet minister in Government of Haryana,
in charge for Industries, performing the flag hoisting in the presence of these
noble yet daring children, followed by a spell of bright and colourful cultural
programmes of dance and music performed by the same children.
Needless to say it was a tough task for
these children to have stepped, toed, and danced to the soothing rhythms of the
gentle music that was being played, that provided no hearing stimulus to them,
yet the show went off as immaculate.
Apart from the chief guest the programme
was also well attended by Shri Tek Chand Sharma M.L.A.; Shri Deepak
Mangla—political secretary to the chief minister; Shri Ashok Kumar
Sharma—deputy commissioner Palwal; Shri Rahul Sharma—superintendent of police
Palwal; Shri Bijender Saroth—President, District Red Cross Society and Shri
Jawahar Singh—district president, BJP. As a kind gesture an amount of Rs 50,000
was announced as donation by the honourable minister who was too moved by the
spirits of these children.
At this august moment Dr Rajeev Mohan
Kukreja—founder Chairman, and Dr Sujata Tripathi—Director of the center were
also present.
There isn’t much need for me to describe
the function anymore as the pictures will say it all. But what should not go
unnoticed is the glimmer of hope in the eyes of both the children and their
parents. We all do enough for ourselves and our children but it requires
something extra in you to step out and do something for others and especially
children with special needs.
Below is a synopsis of what the center does
and you could join the cause by donating liberally.
Ramanujan
Divyang Rehabilitation & Skill Development Center
About Us
We are a self sustained educational society of great repute located in one
of the backward districts of Southern Haryana, where we are running a ‘facility
center’ for children with special needs since 2013.
Through this facility center we are imparting specific therapies along with
training and education for their overall betterment, as we want all such
children to be cognitively and financially self-reliant. And as a first step
towards this goal we are providing them with vocational and computer training.
Our center, vow’s for good benchmarks and keeping in line with that we have
evolved the values of three “S” that we are
currently pursuing: a. Self Confidence b. Skill Enhancement c. Self
dependent.
1. FACILITY
FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
The center has identified more than 100 children with
special needs from nearby villages & Palwal town, and has started a facility
center in order to provide them with therapies, together with training
& education. It has two sections namely MR (Mentally
Retarded) & HI (Hearing Impaired). And we are happy to inform you that
today over 30 such students are training under this noble and demanding mission
on a regular basis. The center has also appointed two special educators
& a speech therapist registered with RCI having required qualification,
along with other support staff.
l VOCATIONAL
TRAINING AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT
We intend to cover as many Divyang children and adults to bring them
under the central umbrella of ‘mainstream earning members’ in the family
and society, by imparting vocational & computer training that they
are capable of learning. We also intend training rural women who are unable to
travel to towns or cities away from their homes. And for the purpose, the
center runs the following programs and has simultaneously applied to (NIOS)
National Institute of Open Schooling, for affiliation and accreditation of the following courses:
▪ Cutting & Tailoring
▪ Indian Embroidery
▪
Basics & Advance Computer
Training
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Project ‘SWAVALAMBAN’ — FOR WOMEN & DIVYANGS
Rural
women and Divyang persons are often exploited since they are financially not
independent. Project Swavalamban is a brain child of Ramanujan
Foundation to provide employment exclusively to rural women & Divyang
persons. Swavalamban means ‘Self Dependent’ or “Having
Freedom of Action or Initiative/Decisions.” Under project ‘Swavalamban’ our
center inculcates and develops skills as per capabilities of the learner &
subsequently provides them with raw material to work with. Produced artifacts
thereafter are retailed in the market under the brand name “Swavalamban”. This
makes it convenient for them to work out of their homes and simultaneously facilitates
them to even look after their families. Thus: people involved in project
Swavalamban will no longer be a liability for their family and society and will
earn their livelihood with self respect.
Currently on a pilot basis
following products are being produced by these people:
1. Hand Knitted Sweaters for ladies, gents, kids and infants.
2. Embroidered home furnishing such as bed-sheets, pillow covers, table cloths
etc.
3. Handmade dari (rug) from waste wool.
BUT WE NEED HELP
Most children enrolled in the
facility-center are from a very poor background. They are unable to pay any fee
for such facilities. Till date Ramanujan Foundation and its team were bearing
all the expenses. But due to down turn in education sector leading to severe
downturn in our own revenues the foundation for now is finding it difficult to
bear the cost of center. Hence the humble request, to all our well wishers,
patrons and like-minded people to kindly donate as generously as possible for
the noble cause.
E-mail: info@ramanujan.edu.in
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