During our summer camp, we also encourage friends and siblings of our children with special needs to attend to encourage interaction and also to promote opportunities of joint learning through play. We also organise workshops like stress busters, art and craft and soap making for our parents. Various outings are organised during the camps along with dance therapy, music therapy, drama therapy and art and craft lessons for our children.
Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) focuses on enhancing the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families; meeting basic needs; and ensuring inclusion and participation in the community and society. It is a strategy within general community development for the rehabilitation, equalisation of opportunities and social inclusion of all people with disabilities. CBR is implemented through the combined efforts of people with disabilities, their families and communities, and relevant government and non-government health, education, vocational, social and other services.
Through the following interventions a CBR project ensures equal opportunity, Protection of rights and participation of PWDs (Person with disability)
Category of disabilities covered under the project
Community Based Rehabilitation Program, for children with special needs / Person with Disabilitie/s. A project being implemented by Our Ashiana in association with Prabhat Education Foundation. Our Ashiana will identify children with special needs and Person with Disability (PWD) by door to door survey, awarness camps and through help of local leaders and NGOs from various slums and Galli/chali of Lambha ward, Ahmedabad and provide services for their rehabilitation at community level. By end of March, after the survey we will be able to identify which area needs more help and our focus for the rest of the year will be on that particular area of Lambha ward. Various proposed and approved components of the project include, Medical care , Counseling, provisions for providing Aids and appliances or other assistive devises and supportive services like, helping the PWDs to get disability certificate, medical certificate, bus pass and other social security schemes available for PWDs from Government and other agencies. Category of disabilities to be covered under the project include, Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment, Mentally Retardation, Physically Challenged, Low Vision, Mental Illness, Multiple Disability, Cerebral Palsy, Locomotors disability and autistic cases. Approved time line for execution and completion of the project is learned to be from January 2015 to December 2015.
The Lambha ward covers the following areas : Narol, Lambha, Shahwadi / Motipura, Indiranagar, Vatva (partly), Bachubhai No Kuvo, Piplaj, Laxmipura, Ranipur and Bombay Hotel (partly). This is one of the most densely populated slums of Ahmedadab. Very few organisations or voluntary groups are working in this area since it is one of the most communally sensitive areas of the city. The area was also affected very badly during the Communal Riots of 2002, in the aftermath of Godhra carnage. This area has been selected for the project taking into account the special needs of the area. The project area will be divided into two different clusters (each field worker will be given a cluster) and once the needs are identified OA will focus on the area for the rest of the year.
Total population of Lambha Ward : 1,53,000
The area has :
