Physical Health India Project #35780

Empower 120 differently abled kids in Tamil Nadu

by VOICE Trust

Project Report | Feb 1, 2024
New Life, thank you for being the reason!!

By Janet Preethi G | Project Leader

Rishwanth is now ready for balanced walk, thankyou

Persons with disabilities comprise at least 4 to 8 percent of the country's population. Children with disabilities in the country are subject to multiple deprivations and limited opportunities in several dimensions of their lives. Their families and caregivers also go through lot of stress and challenges in having a person with disability at home.

Community-based rehabilitation is very appropriate in our cultural setting, where social and community bonds are strong and deep-rooted. The challenge is to harness the potential of these bonds for rehabilitation related social action programs. Nevertheless, CBR programs need to draw their resources from existing community development programs and should integrate with them. The concept and practice of CBR has come down a long road. CBR builds on and validates existing indigenous knowledge and information systems, while facilitating access to relevant information and ideas from outside the community. Community-based rehabilitation is implemented through a joint effort between people with disabilities, their families and communities, and the appropriate health, education, vocational and social services.

Thus, the universal mission of CBR is to:

Enhance activities of daily life of disabled persons.
Create awareness in disabled person's environment to achieve barrier free situations around him and help him in meeting all human rights.
Create a situation in which the disabled persons, participates fully and assimilate ownership of their integration in to the society. The ownership lies with the affected persons.

Father and mother of this son resides in Sirganur village at Mannachannalur taluk, Trichy District. He is the first son. The happy couple did not marry in close blood relation .Without knowledge of her husband and family she took a very strong decision to abort her baby, she took medicine without the consultation of a doctor. Though she took medicine the baby started growing within and later during the birth there was an issue that, water present in the uterus was not enough.

It was a premature baby born in 8 months and since vaccum was used during the delivery , the baby had a lower IQ than others.The mental health of their son was not known to them until one and a half years. Later they took him to a doctor noticing abnormal changes in his activities.

As he progressed from Crawling to balancing himself to walk, VOICE Trust has contributed in giving him support by getting his instrumental support from hip to toe for him to walk. Grandma is taking care of him and the whole family is now happy and thankful towards our GlobalGiving and VOICE Trust.

With support from Trinity Institute, Canada, we celebrated World Disabled Day 2023, Christmas celebration and nearly 330 Differently Abled Children participated along with 50 Children. We are attaching the pictures as well. They provided gifts, cakes, sweets, chocolate, non veg meals, games for kids, transportation and happiness.

VOICE Trust is looking for virtual volunteers, if anyone is interested to support us please send an email to connect@voice-trust.org

Differently Abled Children getting gifts

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Aug 18, 2023
She is not facing balancing issue now, thank you all for your support!!

By Janet Preethi G | Project Leader

Fixing of belt and calipher

Greetings from VOICE Trust.

Thank you all for your continued support until now, with your help we have reached 25+ children and hopefully together along with you we will give sustainable lives for differently abled kids.

India has 20.42 lakh disabled children aged between 0 and 6 years. Around 71% of them - 14.52 lakh children - are in rural areas. There are 5.9 lakh disabled children in cities. Of them, 11.04 lakh are male and 9.38 lakh are female children. Among them, 1.49 lakh children have multiple disabilities.

Children with hearing and eyesight disabilities form the lion's share among them. All age groups put together, there are more than 41 lakh children with eyesight problems and 47 lakh children with hearing disabilities in the country, says the latest report on 2011 Census released on Monday.

There are more than 5.80 lakh children in this age group with other disabilities like autism and cerebal palsy. Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of children with disabilities. Bihar is next on the list with 2.90 lakh children. Maharashtra has 2.17 lakh children with disabilities. In the south, undivided Andhra Pradesh has 1.27 lakh children, followed by Karnataka - 92,853 - Tamil Nadu - 62,538 - and Kerala - 26,242.

In India, a majority of the disabled resides in rural areas where accessibility, availability, and utilization of rehabilitation services and its cost-effectiveness are the major issues to be considered.

Being the second child of dailywage farmer, Logeswari is doing her 6th grade and was identified issues in balancing at the age of 3, the family was not able to afford for proper treatment as they were struggling for food, she needs someone to take care of her while walking because she often falls down due to lack of balance in her hip bone. The family sufferred a lot and VOICE Team gave pysiotheraphy initially but that was not a permanent solution. Somedays, she was not able to go to school if there were no one to accompany her. Being a good student in academics, she missed classes. Because of you help we gifted her belt for her hips, calipher for her legs and walker to practice maintaining balance. Until this activity has begun, we have spent the maximum money for Logeswari and that's worth it. Her face glows when she said I am able to walk alone and independent. Though initially she faced discomfort and pain and being a child she expressed unwilligness to wear the belt, but as she started practicing she accepted it and regular theraphy and practice will make her more stronger.

Thank you once again for transforming Logeswari's life and making her independent..!!

We are in need of your help, any volunteers interested in supporting us virtually (report writing, managing campaigns in GlobalGiving, fundraising) please email us to connect@voice-trust.org

Practicing to walk

Thank you for gifting her uninterupted education

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Apr 17, 2023
You made her to continue education..!!

By Janet Preethi G | Project Leader

Measurements taken for Ishwarya Lakshmi

Greetings to all friends of VOICE Trust.

Thank you for your continued help and support.

Children with disabilities “include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis”. Children with disabilities are a highly diverse population group. They include children who were born with a genetic condition that affects their physical, mental or social development; those who sustained a serious injury, nutritional deficiency or infection that resulted in long-term functional consequences; or those exposed to environmental toxins that resulted in developmental delays or learning disabilities. Children with disabilities also include those who developed anxiety or depression as a result of stressful life events.

Nearly 240 million children in the world today have some form of disability. This estimate is higher than previous figures and is based on a more meaningful and inclusive understanding of disability, which considers several domains of functioning, including those related to psychosocial well-being. Most children with disabilities have difficulties in just one functional domain. Psychosocial issues predominate at every age, in some cases in combination with other functional difficulties.

Shanthi and Victoria resides in Trichy district , South Irungallur village. Ishwarya Lakshmi , nine years old is their daughter. Shanthi works for daily wages and her husband works in a hotel. Ishwarya Lakshmi is studying 4th standard in Irungallur RC Primary school. Her legs are bent and flat, as she runs she falls down without balance. She was not able to participate either in sports or in culturals. So her parents met a physiotherapist and contacted VOICETrust for help.

We took her for consultation and gave her small physical tasks. The doctor advised them to use a roller to get proper shape and balance for the legs and feet. With the support you all gave Ishwarya Lakshmi received ortho shoes and the family showered their gratitude and love towards all friends of VOICE Trust.

We have attached pictures of two more children who have received belts from your help.

Many more Children are awaiting for your help and support, we have ten more Children in our list and with your continued support we are solving one by one problems children face due to disability.

VOICE Trust puts one more request to you all dear friends.

Please support us in virtual volunteering, especially the technical aspects..!! If interested please email to connect@voice-trust.org, voicetrust.try@gmail.com

You are the reason for a child's better life..!! thank you!! We need you, Children need You!!

One happy face who is thanking you all..!!

A temporary measurement taken, a model rope belt

UN report, says 1 among 10 children is disabled

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