Introduction

Agenda

• About us

• Introduction

• Founders

• Legal Aspect

• Objectives

• Our Services• Our Achievements• Challenges & Expectations in skill building

About Us - Introduction

Sabitha Educational Society

• Established in 2002, in Sangareddy, Medak Dist, Telangana with 6 children as Day Care Center.

• Present strength – 66

• Services - Special Education, Speech Therapy, Behaviour Modification, Physio Therapy and Parents Counselling.

• Provides training in Daily Living Skills, Social/Personal Skills and Work skills through different training options:

– Candle making

– Chalk piece making

– Office Products Making – Cutting Paper, Note book Binding etc.,

– Phenol Making

About Us - Founders

Founders

Sabitha Educational Society, is a voluntary "not for profit" organization founded by Sri. Srinivas Raju and his wife Smt. Saritha to undertake the educational activity of differently abled children.

Sri. Srinivas Raju is a Post-Graduate in History from Osmania University and out of his special interest, he acquired Diploma in Special Education (Hearing Impaired) and Diploma in Vocational Training and Employment for Mentally Challenged from National Institute of Hearing and Mentally Handicapped.

Smt. S.Saritha, M.A., B.Ed., DVR(MR) by her aptitude and nature chose to be a special teacher with a quest to learn and to apply all that knowledge to subject of interest (i.e.) educating and training specially abled children. This interest and passion made her to establish a institute.

With a Noble Intention of giving Free Special Education & Vocational Training for specially disabled children in an area where no special services are available and people who cannot attend their specially abled children due to illiteracy and poverty, Sabitha Educational Society came in to existence in Sangareddy of Medak District on 12th June, 2002, with 6 children as a day care centre.

About us - Legal Aspects

Legal Aspects

Sabitha Educational Society is aided by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of Indiafrom 2006 onwards and is registered under the following:

Registration No.461/2000 under Registration of Societies Act.

Donations to Sabitha Educational Society exempted from Income Tax under section 80G/12A of IT Act, 1961.

Recognised by the Govt. of Telangana State, Department of Disabled Welfare.

Member Institution of Telangana State Association for the Welfare of Mentally Retarded.

Registered under persons with Disabilities Act Under Section 52 of PWD Act, 1995.

About Us - Objectives

Objectives

• To enable self advocacy in Mental Retardation persons in order express their feeling, problems, to know provision and rights provide for them.

• To identify and work alongside the economically and socially deprived, the physically and mentally challenged - starting with children, so that they become educated, skilled and aware.

• To help them get training on various vocations, so that they become self employed and self dependent

• To enable the specially abled to be self-reliant and enjoy a healthy, dignified and sustainable quality of life

• To undertake programs for welfare of women, girl child, orphan and aged persons.

• And to that end, act as a resource to and collaborate with other agencies - governmental or non-governmental, as well as suitably intervene in policy formulation.

Vision & Focus

Our vision - To see Individuals with a disability and their families alive with Pride in the Present, Operating with Love, Respect and Confidence in the Future.

Our Focus - Creating Livelihoods From Disability to

Different Abilities

Our Services

Our Services

Services offered by us :

• Day School• Speech Therapy• Behaviour Modification• Vocational Training• Physiotherapy• Parents Counselling

Our Services

Day School

We have been running a special school for the past 14

years for the welfare of the Specially abled children with

provision of special education, physio therapy,

occupational therapy, speech therapy, vocational

training, counseling for parents and conducting camps,

programs for welfare of Mental Retardation, Polio camps

etc.

The present strength of the school is 66 day scholars.

Our Services

Vocational Training

Since its inception i.e., 2002, Sabitha Educational Society has been

imparting Vocational training activities like candle making, chalk piece

making, phenol making. Sabitha Special School also started training

the specially abled children in book binding, making different sizes of

note books, file pads, envelopes.

With minimal guidance and assistance, the children are able to do all

the Vocational activities by themselves.

Marketing of the finished goods is also carried out by the students at

special stalls in “Rythu Bazar”, “Hastha Kala” and “Handi Crafts”

Melas, Special Exhibition and Department Stalls put up during special

occasions such as Independence Day & Republic Day etc.

Our Services

Parent Counselling Services

Parent counseling is done by providing emotional support and

empathetic understanding to deal with their distress and guilt

feelings arising due to their mentally retarded child.

Apart from tackling misconceptions of parents, guidance is

also given to understand the nature of Mental Retardation and

the needs of life so as to promote harmonious development of

the child in the family setting.

Individual meetings with the parents were held regularly

throughout (quarterly) the year. In addition to this, end-of-

term meetings were organized for all the parents who meet

the principal, class teacher and home visitor / teachers.

Our Participation

Our Participation

• Group Dance - Independence Day Celebrations

• Raksha Bandhan at Dist. Collector’s Residence

• Teacher’s day celebrations

• Gandhi Jayanthi Celebrations

• Children’s Day Celebrations

• Sports day Celebrations

• Republic Day Celebrations

• International Women’s Day Celebrations

• Ambedkar Jayanthi and

• Other Celebrations

Our Participation

Our Participation

Our Achievements

Our Achievements

• Venu Gopal, a mild MR, deaf and dumb student passed SSC in

the year 2015-16 thru Open School System

• Our Students participate and win prizes every year in

Independence day, Republic Day and disabled day

celebrations at District level.

• Our students participated in National Level Festivals,

Disabled Day celebrations and Special Olympics

• Awarded as Best NGO in the Medak District on occasion of

70th Independence Day, Cash award of Rs 5000/- given

• Appreciation by Vyapari Education Trust – Felicitated by

Gnanapeeth Award Winner, Dr. C. Narayan Reddy

Our Achievements

Our Achievements

Challenges &

Expectations in

Skill Building

Skill Building Areas

• Paper Plates & Cups

• Papad

• Tie & Die

• Screen Printing

• Perfume Stick Making

• Noodles Making

• Photocopying, Lamination & Spiral Binding

• Packing and Assembling

Differently abled children can perform the below works with proper training, guidance and supervision

• Paper Jewellery, Thread Tailoring & Embroidery works

• Kitchen Gardening

• Vermi Compost Making

• Bakery Products Making

• Dairy Farm work

• Floral Decoration & Bouquet Making

• Automatic Flour Mill & Wet Grinding

• Paper & Jute Bags Making

General Challenges in Skill Building

• Children Should get equal rights, Equal Participation and Equal Opportunities

• Benefits, subsidies, reservations, allocations, relaxations in Education & Employment

• Training regarding contemporary Job work, Identification, Training, Employment and Self-Employment

• Proper well designed Infrastructure – Residential Hostels for Poor and BPL Special MR children

• Job allocation for MR or mild MR persons in 3% reservations as given by Govt Reservations

• Medical Aid in terms of subsidized medicines, Free supply of medicines for different problems of MR as these medicines are costly

• Imparting proper contemporary special education therapies needed, Vocational Trainings, Job trainings and allocations

Expectations

• Skill building in special children is a challenging task but it can be achieved with constant effort, training

by qualified vocational instructors through Job Simplification and Analysis. It is possible with proper

technology trainings associated with market needs on contemporary trades & Job works.

• Proper Training Methodology - By splitting the Job into simpler Tasks, giving sufficient leisures/breaks

one can attain maximum work done and required results can be obtained with best quality output.

• Infrastructure for Training & Skill Development – With meagre grants from Govt. of India (under

ministry of SJE), we are able to fulfill our basic needs to certain extent but for skill development we need

good infrastructure.

• Good Infrastructure includes – Transportation facility to pickup and drop the students from Home,

Qualified Therapist to understand the differently abled children and suggest appropriate skill area. For

Skill Development, we need contemporary training material, items and equipment for training purpose;

Machinery and raw material for production, Marketing Facilities for the Product Sales

Our Challenges & Expectations

• Infrastructure – Specially abled children needs special infrastructure, some of them cannot sit on

ground. We are facing a challenge of well equipped school building and classrooms in terms of seating

arrangements (Benches, etc), Ventilation and other infrastructure.

• Availability of Teaching Aids & Appliances – Due to the lack of funds, we are unable to procure model

teaching aids and appliances specially designed for Specially abled children.

• Student Teacher Ratio - Due to the lack of funds, we are unable to maintain the optimum student-

teacher ratio as well as student-Ayah ratio.

• Availability of Qualified Therapist – Different Therapies like Physio, Occupational and Speech Therapies

need qualified Therapist as a Doctor for medical aid and emergencies.

• Transportation – Most of the students need to come from 15-20 KM to Sangareddy to attend Sabitha

School and they can neither use public transportation nor they can afford private transportation. A

Transport vehicle is required to pickup and drop the student from home to reduce the drop-outs.

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