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RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMMES » Asha Niketan Day Care Centre for the Physically Challenged Children ......

Life for 13 year old Mumtiaz has always been different since his birth. Mumtiaz realised his serious handicap only when his senses came to maturity. He started coming to the Physically Challanged Centre of ADF in 1999 after his parents were motivated by a social worker. It was only after that he started his education. An active and ever smiling pleasant boy, Mumtiaz is very intelligent and good in studies. He has a fascination for sports and drawing. He has five brothers and one sister who is also a physically challenged child with the same problem as Mumtiaz and attends the Physically Challanged Centre regularly. His father is a carpenter and lives with his family in Shahid Nagar.

Independence Day for physically challanged children

Junaid Entertainment time Singing a Song

Physical inability in human beings, particularly of the children, had been intriguing ADF for quite a long time. Precisely because of this, it started a project for the physically challenged children in 1999 in the form of Day Care Centre. Currently 35 children daily attend our day care center in D-81 in Shahid Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, where a host of activities including formal education, Physical therapies, counseling, etc. are provided to the children.

Bishop Rt. Rev. Sunil Singh of Diocese of Delhi presenting tri-cycle to Junaid, a physically challenged student

Aim Of The Project:

To integrate physically and mentally challenged children into the society to live as a normal person.

Objectives Of The Project:
The objectives of residential home cum drop-in centre for the physically challenged children are to:
• • • • • •. •. •.	Help the children cope up with their physical, sensory and neurological limitations. Ensure confidence amongst the children by exploring their hidden talents. Provide medical and other professional treatments to the children. Provide formal and non-formal education to all the children through special techniques. Counsel the parents of the children and provide them with skills to handle these children at home. Provide vocational and technical skills, so that they may meaningfully employed & earn their living. Disseminate awareness on the issue of the physically challenged children. Provide counseling, motivation and emotional support & guidance for overcoming their tense and stress.

Target Group:

Physically challenged children, aged 5 to 14 years, from poor families in the slums and resettlement colonies of Delhi - UP region, who are generally not cared for by the family members.

Schedule Of Activities In The Centre:

The day for the children in the Centre starts with prayer at 9.10 a.m. The children, most of them from the surrounding slums and resettlement colonies come to the center at 9:00 a.m. either in their wheel chairs provided by ADF or come along with their parents and stay in the center until 4:00 p.m. To begin the day fresh the morning newspaper is read out for them. Tea and breakfast is then served to them. The children then devote to studying and doing their home tasks. After this, its yoga time. At 12:40 pm the children are served lunch.Then, The children along with the instructor go to New Life Centre in Vivek Vihar every Friday where they are shown different exercises to be done through out the week. The exercises learnt are followed in the Centre during the Yoga class. After the yoga class, comes the story time where the instructor tells very interesting stories to the children who enjoy them. The children then play different indoor games like carom, chess, ludo, etc. after which they all depart for their house.

Table : Type of Physically challenged children attending the Day care Centre and their number as on March 31, 2008

Srl. No	Nature of problem	Number
1.	Hand/s and /or leg/s effected	29
2.	Deaf and dumb	3
3.	Mentally retarded	2
4.	Blind	1
TOTAL		35