Kiranam Organization for the disabled in AP - Ashayam

Project Brief:
Project Type: Children with Disabilities (description)
Primary Focus: other (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact: Kansas City
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Radhakrishna Velagapudi
Project Partner(s): Ravindra Babu
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , H.No: 42-93/2, Plot No. 245, ,Jawahar Nagar Colony, Moula-Ali, Hyderabad,
TELANGANA 
Tel: 040 27142025
Stewarding Chapter: Kansas City
Feb 2014Kansas CityUSD 2446
Jul 2012Kansas CityUSD 3225
Dec 2011Kansas CityUSD 3500
Jul 2010Kansas CityUSD 2100

Total = $11271

Mentally retarded children can be trained and educated to make them sustain on their own and even succeed in gainful employment. Ashayam’s primary focus is to identify children with disabilities especially from poor families and train them. The society has started with only two children and now is providing training to 30 children. In addition to providing training to disabled children the society educates the parents of the disabled children and makes them aware of the possible opportunities. Parents who have lost hope or who were not aware of any such opportunities are able to recognize the potential of their children. Ashayam has conducted 5 awareness camps in the colonies of Moula-Ali, Hyderabad and also visited the homes of disabled children to counsel their parents.
Mrs. Lakshmi Kumari, founder of this society was inspired by the National Institute of Mentally Handicapped and joined with the mobile team in 2002 and started the voluntary service. She rendered service to children and conducted counseling service for the parents of mentally retarded children. She has continued her service independently for the welfare of mentally challenged children in Moula-ali area of Hyderabad. She has real empathy and dedication toward these children as one of her own child needed such education.
One of the immediate needs of the society is to have the financial support to hire specially trained teachers to help the mental growth and awareness of the children. The ideal student teacher ratio for disabled children is 6 to 1. Due lack of sufficient funds, Mrs. Lakshmi Kumari is trying to fill the gap with the help of other volunteers who are not formally trained.

Asha will be fund the salary for teachers with Diploma in Mentally Retarded, special BEd
The aim of the organization is to provide training and income generation activities to eligible Mentally Retarded Children with broad view to create placement facilities for them to obtain long term benefits. The society is providing training to 30 children in production of paper plates, paper bags, gift bags, Candles, Greeting cards with the assistance of an expert instructor.
Goal is to recruit trained teachers(vocational instructors) and provide appropriate education to the children to help them sustain on their own. Groom the kids from ‘Complete Dependency’ to ‘Self Sustain’ state.
Ashayam Parents Association is a non profit, non sectarian, non political voluntary organization, established in 2008 under the provisions of Indian societies registration act 35 of 2001 with Regd No. 124/2008.

The organization was founded by Mrs. Lakshmi Kumari with the co-operation of local philanthropic persons and committed social workers.

Since its inception, the organization has been seeking to improve the quality of life of disabled children, marginalized, impoverished from low income groups and other disadvantaged sections through sustainable development programs.