Education India Project #27918

Inclusive Schooling for Children with Disabilities

by Blind People's Association (India)

Project Report | Feb 17, 2021
Back to the School

By Bhushan Punani | General Secretary

Virtual Training

Dear Donors and Well Wishers,

Greetings from BPA India.

I trust this report finds you in Great Spirit and Health.

I am very happy to share a story of Anjali a syndrome cute girl. She lives with her parents in a small town in Gujarat. Her father is a worker in the factory, and her mother is a homemaker. Due to Covid 19 effects on the job, her father had a difficult time. She was not able to meet the medical expenses of Anjali. Her behavior was changed a lot, she got angry quickly, sometimes broken things down. Her mother told this to the teacher, the teacher asked her that she could arrange virtual training as the school was closed. Having only one phone in the house made it difficult to give regular training to her on a virtual platform. A smartphone was given for the purpose of education under this project. Her teachers started making a video call, she was so happy to see her teacher's face after a long time. She cried, and asking her teacher to come home, and meet her. The virtual training was so helpful to manage her behavior and teaching purposes. She always asked when the school would be opening. The virtual training was very helpful to the students with disabilities for social adjustment, functional learning.

We are very happy to share with you that we have provided smart phones to 280 students with disabilities to access the education on virtual modes. We have also created small videos on functional training, activity of daily living skills, basic therapies, and functional literacy. The two special pages were created on facebook to provide resources to the parents, teachers that is helpful in dealing with children with disabilities in this difficult time. The links are given below.

Teach Special Child. https://www.facebook.com/teachspecialchild
Learning Studios : https://www.facebook.com/Learningstudioforparents

We have reopened our rehablitaiton and therapy centers for children with disabilities as per the Government Norms, the Std 10^th to 12^th Classes have been restarted, and planning to reopened primary schools std 6^th to 8^th from 22^nd February.

We are very happy to share with you that because of your continuous support, we have not deducted a salary of any teachers during and after the lockdown, and no staff have been reduced. They have been involved in relief work like distributing dry ration kits to the poor students.

We request you to provide your support, and also motivate your friends and family members to join this cause.

Thanking you

Smile to see teacher

Group Learning with friends

Back to Center

Individual Learning

Activity of Daily Living

Group Learning

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Resources for Parents of special child

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Oct 20, 2020
Virtual Education to Students with Visual Impairment

By Bhushan Punani | General Secretary

Media Coverage

Dear Donors & Well Wishers,

Greetings from India!!

I hope this email finds you safe and healthy. Due to covid 19 situations, the mode of education has been changed. The physical classrooms turned into virtual classrooms. This transition is very exciting, gives new learnings and challenges. The major challenge is to provide virtual education to blind students is very challenging. The poor students do not have mobile phones, and internet. The project has provided mobile phones, and cost of internet services. There are 179 students who requires support for mobile phones, and internet services. The organization has started requesting donors to support for cause. This mobile phones are the only medium to connect the students with visual impairment and other disabilities. They have equal right to access the education. Blind People's Association ensures that the rights of children with disabilities are protected and promoted. The gift of mobile phone to students with visual impairment is not gift, it is new hope are given to them.

Raj a student of class 12th lives in Kacchh, Gujarat. Raj is having a visual impairment. Due to Covid 19, his school is closed, and he was worried about his education. His school teachers contacted him couple of times, and said if you have smart phones they can send audio books, and lessons to him. This would help him to prepare for class 12th examination. His father has mobile phone, but he has to carry when he goes for a job. He comes at late night. He shared his worried with the school teacher. School teacher shared his concerned with the project team, and idea of providing mobile phones to blind students. He was given a mobile phone and internet services. He was so happy to have mobiles, and all lessons in audio format, and audio books. He said, this has given me confidence, hope that I will clear 12th Board Exam with good marks.

The project team has already distributed 20 mobiles, and looking for support for more 159 mobile phones. We request you to share this request on your social media platforms, with friends, and family members. Your support enable us to reach out more students with visual impairment and disabilities, and their education will be continued.

Looking forward to seeing your support

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Distribution of mobile phones

Phones Distribution

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Jun 25, 2020
Covid19- Children with Disabilities & Relief Work

By Bhushan Punani | Executive Secretary

Appeal by Teachers and Students Stay Home

Dear donors and well-wishers, Hope all of you are healthy and safe in the severe state of Kovid 19 Pandamic. We have been under the lockdown for last many days. We believe that this difficult time will soon pass and the beautiful morning will come again. The plight of the poor disabled children and their families in this lockdown situation has become very dire. But with the help of donors like you, we were able to provide relief materials and services to such a poor and needy families of children with disabilities. We would like to share with you the experience of a mother of children with disability having in this lock down situation. Razia is the mother of a 14-year-young beautiful daughter. Her daughter Zainab has intellectual impairment due to late birth crying. Razia lives in Ahmedabad with her husband and 3 other children. Razia's husband is daily wage earner, and the family lives hand to mouth condition. Zainab also has many behavioral issues. She was also often violent. She was taken to the school of Blind People’s Association for proper treatment and training. There she got a lot of improvement in her behavior by proper intervention, treatment, medicine, and training. We were very comfortable and happy with this development. The imposed lockdown has made us to remain locked in the house. She was confined in the home for very long days. Therefore, she got very irritated, and her mental condition worsened day by day. One day she was so violent that the door of the house was broken down. We were very scared to see her aggression, and violent. This kind of commotion was happening every day, even our neighbors were fed up with such incidences. We had no idea where to go in this lockdown situation. We spoke to her teacher on the phone and explained the whole incident in detail. Her teacher spoke to Zainab the next day via video call. She was very happy to see her teacher and started working as per her teacher's suggestion. Her teacher talked to a psychiatrist and arranged for her medicines for her at home. Her teacher sent her a video instructing her on what to do, and after watching the video, she began to help out at home. We are very thankful to the team of Blind People’s Association and their donors who provided us Ration Kits for two months. The following activities were undertaken in this lock down situation by the project team. Due to the serious impact of Kovid 19 Korona Pandemic, the lock Down was given by the Government of India. The situation of this lockdown became very miserable for the persons with disabilities. The following projects were started by the organization with the aim of helping persons with disabilities, their families and other sections of the society in this pandemic condition. 1. Community Mask Project: The Community Mask Project was a new initiative by the organization. The purpose of the project was to provide employment to women with disabilities and other poor women, as well as to provide free masks to the people. To date, the organization has produced and distributed over 90,000 masks. The masks were distributed to laborers, shopkeepers, police, and other members of the public. More than 20 women have found employment through this program, and the organization aims to distribute 2 lakh masks. 2. Stop Hunger: Helping Hands Project: People with disabilities have to face the most hardships in this Lock Down situation. His life depended on his daily income; the sudden closure of the business made it difficult for him to get even a one-time meal. The organization launched the Stop Hunger-Helping Hands Kit project to help persons with disabilities and their families in such dire circumstances. Under this project, ration kits are given to the family of a person with disability. This ration kit is made of wheat flour, rice, tur dal, sugar, oil, 2 masks, sanitizer, and soap. So far, the organization has distributed ration kits to more than 14000 persons with disabilities in more than 500 villages in 14 districts of Gujarat. The organization aims to provide this ration kit to more than 20000 families. For this project, the organization has received very generous cooperation from donors, local organizations, and volunteers. BPA is looking forward to receive support for this project from Corporates, Individual Donors, National and International Organization. We also plan to distribute these kits in Jodhpur District of Rajasthan. 3. Engagement and Education of Children with Disability in Lock Down Situation. In this epidemic situation, children with disabilities could not come for education, training, and rehabilitation facilities. An online training program has been launched to enable these children with disabilities to avail these facilities at home. Specialist teachers provide continuous guidance to parents and guardians of children with disabilities by planning what kind of education and training can be given to children with disabilities at home. Parents are also given online guidance on the behavioral problems of children with disabilities. More counseling services are also being offered. Based on this guidance, the parents make a video of the activity of the children with disabilities at home and send it to the teacher. Based on this guidance, parents make videos of the activities of children with disabilities at home and send them to the teacher. The video is analyzed by the teacher, then the teacher gives the parents Further Instructions and Guidance. The video collection is uploaded on BPA’s YouTube channel so that other parents, special educators and other professionals can benefit from this video. The channel details are as given below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb5eFqcMl7UjGs23hrWEjRQ/

Ration Kit

Stop Hunger Spread Smile

Helping Hands

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The videos of Children with disabilities engaging in activity

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