Mid day Meals for Disabled Children

Children of Balajothi would like to thank you all for your generous support for the Daily Meals project. With all your support we met our initial target of $3,795, and now as we extended the target to $7,590.

Here is the breakup of the amount spent on the daily meals served for the three months to the children of Balajothi:

Aug 2015              Rs.9,652.00         (USD ~160)

Sep 2015              Rs.8,400.00         (USD ~140)

Oct 2015               Rs.9,000.00         (USD ~150)

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The team from Oracle Computers, Bangalore has continued their support and active participation for the Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) program, we along with Oracle team visited and distributed essential food items to children around KGF area near Bangalore.

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World Cerebral Palsy Day: Wednesday 7 October 2015

World Cerebral Palsy (CP) Day is held on the first Wednesday each October.

World Cerebral Palsy Day is a movement of people with cerebral palsy and their families, and the organisations that support them, in more than 50 countries. Our vision is to ensure that children and adults with cerebral palsy (CP) have the same rights, access and opportunities as anyone else in our society. It is only together, that we can make that happen.

More than just an awareness day, it is an opportunity to:

1. Celebrate and express pride in the lives and achievements of those with CP and the people and the organisations that support them

2. Create a powerful voice for those with CP to change their world

3. Connect organisations across the globe so they are better equipped to meet the needs of those with CP

4. Create new solutions to everyday problems

5. Act as a catalyst for social change and education campaigns that create solutions to universal challenges

6. Produce tangible, actions and outcomes that measurably improve the lives of those with CP

7. Raise awareness of CP and the issues that affect people with CP at a local, national and international level to create more inclusive societies.

The project is coordinated by the World Cerebral Palsy Initiative, a group of non-profit palsy with a global vision to create real change for people living with CP.

About cerebral palsy

There are 17 million people across the world living with cerebral palsy (CP). Another 350 million people are closely connected to a child or adult with CP. It is the most common physical disability in childhood.

CP is a permanent disability that affects movement. Its impact can range from a weakness in one hand, to almost a complete lack of voluntary movement.

It is a complex disability: 1 in 4 children with CP cannot talk, 1 in 3 cannot walk, 1 in 2 have an intellectual disability, 1 in 4 have epilepsy.*

CP is a lifelong disability and there is no known cure.

[Source: https://worldcpday.org/about-us/]

Links:

• Balajothi on Facebook