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Education and Livelihood Opportunities (ELO)
Disabled children have the right to quality education
The team at the ELO office in Chamarajnagar
The team at the ELO office in Chamarajnagar
Disabled children with their parents from the villages of Chamrajnagar gather for assessment for rehabilitation and mobility appliances
Disabled children with their parents from the villages of Chamrajnagar gather for assessment for rehabilitation and mobility appliances
Self Help Group meeting of parents and others at Madapura village
Self Help Group meeting of parents and others at Madapura village
 
After working on Makkala Bhavishya in the urban environment of the Bangalore slums, DDP and Mobility India (MI) decided to work in 70 villages of Chamrajnagar District of Karnataka state with a total population of over 102,000 people to expand our work with disabled children and their inclusion in primary education in a rural setting. We believe that education and skills training are essential for poor and disabled people to be able to escape from poverty. 
  • Many disabled children were excluded from schooling due to mobility problems
  • Teachers and education administrators do not understand their physical and emotional needs and their abilities 
  • There are no rehabilitation services in the area
  • Disabled children were not receiving the rehabilitation help they needed to do things that all children should do such as play together and go to school
  • There was poverty - parents not able to pay for services 
ELO is an innovative and comprehensive programme designed to improve the quality of mainstream primary education for all children while working for the inclusion of disabled children. ELO simultaneously tackles three inter-connected elements
  • Education Provision
  • Physical Rehabilitation
  • Parents’ Livelihoods
The programme began by recruiting and training local people as disability activists and fieldworkers. The 21 strong ELO team (many of them disabled) visited every village and held community meetings involving parents, teachers and administrators emphasising the importance of education and showing how village children were not getting the high quality education to which they have a right. These meetings have the effect of stimulating the community into action to demand their children’s rights. The team have identified all children who were not going to school and all disabled children. Some of these children need supplementary education in the form of bridging classes to prepare them for entry in the mainstream system and ELO is recruiting and training local women to provide this. The programme is dedicated to support existing statutory education structures and so we are working hand in hand with government officials as well as developing learning materials to be used by children with specific disabilities and training teachers to meet disabled children’s needs. more>>
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