Our Rural Outreach programmes take our cause to the grassroot level, enabling the visually challenged in the rural segment, lead a life of independence and self-sustenance.
As part of our rural outreach initiatives, we have established taluk level centres and extended our reach to rural Karnataka.
We have established Taluk Level Centers and extended our reach
into rural Karnataka. In collaboration with the local community,
local NGOs and the local Panchayats, we have surveyed 551 villages
and identified 706 visually impaired persons and 39 hearing impaired
persons in our Taluka Level Centers. We help them apply for government
provisions such as Disability ID cards, pensions and getting them
registered in the local Panchayat. We then enroll them into our
Foundation Course delivered in our Taluk Level Centers and provide
them with the necessary, Life skills, Mobility training , vocational skills,
self employment skills and help them establish self help groups/ Sanghas.
We also took up a new project called Anekal Taluk under Bangalore rural
district. We are working towards adding a new Taluka Level Centre in
Kundapur, Udupi district. We have been receiving good support and
appreciation from the Zilla Panchayat and Taluka Panchayatsfor the
commendable work done in identifying, training and Rehabilitation
of the visually impaired persons by our Taluka centers.
