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| Varanasi, UP, India |
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| Kiran’s workshop and rehabilitation team |
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From small beginnings in 1990, Kiran (a Hindi word meaning 'ray') have established their own village, about 10 kilometres outside the ancient city of Varanasi. Here they run a comprehensive programme of education and skills training for disabled children and young people from the city and surrounding villages. In the Kiran school, disabled and non-disabled children learn side by side. Children whose needs are greater, for example those with cerebral palsy or intellectual disabilities, learn in a special unit with trained staff. Kiran also train disabled youngsters in a range of skills like screen printing, batik, woodworking and tailoring and the things they make are sold in a small shop in the city.
Kiran are committed to the philosophy that, 'no Kiran child shall be deprived of rehabilitation facilities just because the family cannot afford it'. Their rehabilitation department (comprising a therapy unit and a prosthetic and orthotic workshop) can fabricate a simple calliper at less than one-tenth of the cost of the nearest commercial provider, which in any case is over 750 kilometres away.
DDP and Kiran have joined forces to provide physical rehabilitation services and continuing support to up to 1000 disabled children and their families in under-served remote rural villages and poor urban areas of Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
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- Corrective surgery and/or rehabilitation therapy for children with physical disabilities – for example, those who have had polio
- Provision of wheelchairs, callipers and other mobility aids
- Special therapy for children with cerebral palsy
- Training for local people to provide rehabilitation therapy so that services will continue in these communities long after the project ends
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