A three-day orientation workshop about rights of people with disabilities (differently abled) concluded on Saturday at NBJK Coordination office, Amritnagar, Hazaribagh. The programme has been extended with funding of Action Village India and BlF, UK after two years of its completion by support of AVI and DFID, UK during July 2009 to June 2013.
Now, the programme has been extended for next three years and the aim is to implement it in 500 new villages of Hazaribagh, Koderma, Giridih, Gaya and Nawada districts of Jharkhand and Bihar. Ivan Nutbrown, Representative of Action Village India, UK, enriched the workshop with his views. He applauded the team members’ efforts to facilitate entitlements for PWDs.
During last phase of this programme, the team of NBJK identified 32,000 people with special needs, ensured disability certificates for 29,000 of them and connected 17,000 PWDs with pension or any other claim they deserve. State Programme Coordinator Mohit Gupta briefed about the revival of the process initiated earlier and expected for more challenged people in the fold through a fresh baseline survey.
The programme will ensure selection and training of 100 volunteers, issuance of 15,000 new certificates, entitlements to 19,000 PWDs, formation of 250 Self Help Groups and 75 Disabled Peoples’ Organisations, self-business promotion for 1,000 differently abled people, skill training to 1,000 PWDs, service to 4,000 visually / hearing impaired children, awareness events in 300 schools and many more will come.
Every district will have a team of 11 members including 8 field staffs, 2 block coordinators and a district coordinator to look after the programme smoothly, added Gupta and hoped that by 2018, the differently abled people of these selected districts will certainly change the mindset of the society towards them by their skills and performances.