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Education, training, entrepreneurship Since 2023 (since 2010 by Tomorrow's Foudation)
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Education for disabled children in India (Charaibeti)
A large number of children and people with disabilities remain stigmatized, rejected and denied access to health and education services in India.
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The context
India has enacted a law passed in 1995 to help people with disabilities (Persons With Disabilities Act - PWDA). Nevertheless, many of them are still heavily stigmatized, rejected and denied access to health and education services.
In September 2019, UN experts issued a report expressing concern "about the gaps in the implementation of this legislation, particularly with regard to disabled people from religious and linguistic minorities, including Dalits and people living in rural and remote areas, who continue to suffer discrimination."
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children in specialized centers
weekly face-to-face
The project
The Charaibeti project for children with disabilities focuses in particular on access to learning for 5-18 year-olds with intellectual disabilities. Most of the children work in small groups, while some are accompanied individually as required. In addition to their specialized teaching programthey take advantage of aArtistic and musical activities and yoga. Parents are encouraged to get involved and play an essential role in their child's progress.
After a move, the children settled into a routine in the learning center located near the main road to Rajabazar. The classrooms are bright and equipped with colorful, child-friendly furniture. Most children attend face-to-face classes 3 times a week at the center and take part in online sessions once a week. Children who are unable to attend the center due to the severity of their disability take part in online sessions 2 times a week.
A new specialized educator and a dance teacher have joined the team.
The center currently welcomes 40 children. 8 of them, who were coming of age, left the program in the 2nd quarter of 2023 and are now helping their parents at home.
Tomorrow's Foundation would like to welcome up to 50 children in 2024.
At the same time, the team continues its regular visits to families to student follow-up but also raise public awareness of disability. Still too many children are marginalized, shut away at home and denied access to appropriate learning opportunities.
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The Rehan story
Rehan is a 14-year-old teenager who lives with his father and extended family in Rajabazar in northern Kolkata. He suffers from intellectual disabilities and has difficulty getting around. Before joining the project, he was often isolated, without friends, locked away at home. It was during the Covid-19 pandemic that he began taking the project's online courses. It was the first time he had been to school. Today, he comes regularly to the center. His father takes him along in the van he uses to transport his vegetables!
Rehan is a very friendly, smiling young boy. He communicates mainly with gestures and knows how to make himself understood if he needs help. Over the past few months, he has made enormous progress. He scribbles, stitches, paints and gets up to sing the national anthem. He's made friends. This is an important milestone for a child who has remained in a corner of his home for so many years.
Debraj Mukherjee, Tomorrow's Foundation
Our partners in the field
Tomorrow's Foundation:
NGO created in 1991, dedicated to education, training and combating the effects of climate change in India.