Asha for Education

Project Brief: Sankalp Daycare Centre provides training and education for children with special needs in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Project Type: Children with Disabilities (description)
Primary Focus: children with disabilities (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Silicon Valley

Status: CURRENT
Project Steward: Shrushti Shah
Project Partner(s): Deepti Misra
Project Address: Asha Trust - Sankalp Day Care
121/396, Shastri Nagar,
behind C L Memorial hospital.
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208001
Tel: 091 99560 79347
Stewarding Chapter: Silicon Valley

Sankalp Day Care Centre is a non-profit institution run by Kalyani Charitable Society which provides training and education for children with special needs. The centre was started in January’07 and is located in the heart of Kanpur city (Civil Lines) within the premises of the Georgina Mcrobert Memorial Hospital although the centre has an independent area and entrance.

The centre deals with children having mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorders, hyperactivity & ADHD and delayed development due to any cause. The centre provides training and education of these children supported by physiotherapy, speech therapy, behaviour modification and medical assistance according to individual needs. The centre also provides parental counseling services.

The whole effort was motivated by the distress faced by parents during upbringing of a challenged child especially in a city like Kanpur where the available therapies were scattered at various different places so that it was very tiring for the child and parents to go from one place to the other for the needful. Also, it was impossible to make a coordinated effort under these circumstances for the betterment of the child.