City-based Misha Charitable Trust in association with the Shree Foundation Trust would open a training and treatment centre, The Ables, for blind, deaf, dumb and handicapped persons at Govilo, eight kilometer from the Nakhara Square.
This would be the first centre between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack and would help over 400 handicapped children from 80 nearby villages.MISHA Managing Trustee Shakti Prasad Palo said infrastructure work for the centre has already begun and it would operate soon. The centre has signed agreements with multi-specialty hospitals, including Apollo Hospital and lV Prasad Eye Hospital, for free treatment of the children, added Palo.
Besides, there would be vocational training programmes by sector experts throughout the year for motivating the children and guiding them to be financially independent in future.The residents of the nearby villages are very enthusiastic about the centre and supporting the mission, said Shree Foundation Managing Trustee Saroj Chand.