“Disabled
children in Manvi Taluka miss out due to lack of support services…”
On 27th March, 2023, Vimukti organized a Counselling and training
program to all the specially challenged families at Vimukti
premises. Vimukti staff with the support of MRW and VRW members
identified differently abled children in the entire Manvi taluka.
60% of children with disabilities do not attend schools for various
reasons. Three- fourths of the children with disabilities at the age
of five years and one-fourth between 5-19 years do not go to any
educational institution. However, only 2% of Children with
disability in Manvi Taluk from low- and middle-income families
attend school. Children with disabilities have generally poorer
health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities,
and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This
is largely due to the lack of services available to them and the
many obstacles they face in their everyday lives.
They even do not have medical certificates to ascertain disability,
leaving them out of the radar of many government schemes. Keeping
these thoughts in mind, lately Vimukti conducted a survey report
provides the best available evidence regarding children with
disability (physically handicapped, Blind, Deaf, Dumb, lame, leper,
crippled etc.,) and what works to overcome barriers to health care,
rehabilitation, education, employment, and support services, and to
create the environments action for government to help these
beneficiaries. Thus, promote accessibility in the schools for
children with disability and to tap all basic facilities and schemes
provided by the government. So that these facilities will help them
to grow, to learn and to smile like any other normal child in the
society. Every parent of the disabled child asked these three
questions?1. Will my child ever be able to provide for themselves?
2. Who will take care of my child when I am gone?3. Who will take
care of me? Vimukti prioritizes working with individuals and
families affected by cognitive disabilities to improve their
qualities of life and life opportunities. Vimukti does this through;
visiting families affected by disability to encourage, support and
family counselling. Nearly 125 disabled children and families
benefited from this training program.
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