A joint venture project with The Roy Trust UK and Karunamaye Parents’ Organisation for the Mentally Handicapped
(RTKPO Project) Funded by
BIG LOTTERY FUND UK
Activity – KPO is working on the aim of total inclusion of the differently able children within the society. To fulfill that certain aim the project is offering holistic support services to the differently able children and their family. We are working on the basis of the following objectives.
- Full social inclusion
- Active parental, family, and community involvement
- Holistic approaches to the needs of SLD children
- Preparation and training for future maximum economic self-support
Beneficiaries - 1000 direct and indirect beneficiaries are getting services from the project.
Location – Rajarhat – Gopalpur Municipality, Rajarhat Block,
Start/end dates - Started on - 5/6/2006 – 4/6/2009
Current status – 2nd year of the RTKPO project
Total funds employed /to be employed –
Funding agency – The Big Lottery Fund, UK
Project under Sarva Siksha Mission:
Activity - KARUNAMAYEE PARENTS’ ORGANISATION FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED (KPO) is a District Level Resource Organisation with Sarva Siksha Mission in North 24 pgs. The work is to identify challenged children in the eligible age group, including drop-out cases, and provide support for their mainstreaming into the normal educational set-up. The special educators are there to provide support to the school teachers so that the challenged children can learn in specially formed educational methodology in the inclusive set up of a normal school.
- Beneficiaries - In school or Out of School Challenged Children
- Location – Different Blocks and Municipalities of North 24 pgs District. i.e. Rajarhat gopalpur Municipality, Rajarhat Block,
- Start/end dates - N.A.
- Current status – Continuing
- Total funds employed /to be employed – 15 Special educators of HI,VI, & MR field
- Funding agency – SSM, District North 24 parganas .
Project Innovative / Challenge Fund.
Objective:
- Improved access to suitable and specialized medical facilities
- A more empathetic and supportive environment by bringing in immediate family and also the community.
- Development of living skills
- Livelihood intervention
Activities: The project aim will be to create awareness for total inclusion of a disabled within the society and their own family. The project will give them all support for the betterment of their lively hood through proper training of vocational and occupational activities, So that a disabled can earn his/ her own lively hood after their parental death. This project will also include the parents in term of training and will provide the basic medical advice to maintain their better daily life.
The work of awareness and the impact will be monitor by a team of field level animator and supervisor in different area of the ULB. The local ULB will come forward to help the project as the source on income will increase and through project the lively hood skill will be grown up to a level.
Livelihood skill development
- Family, with specific focus on women entrepreneurial development, for improved quality of life and sustainability in the curative process Individual for mainstreaming
Innovativeness of the project :
The usual practice is to give to treat the mentally challenged in isolation. KPO has developed and tested a model of ‘family and social inclusion’ by Involving the parents of challenged children and the local community. Resulting in a more sustainable and holistic healing.
Instead of fighting the problem once created here we propose to start with Prevention. So that occurrence itself goes down.
The target group is typically poor and with mentally challenged children it is a double whammy. Treatment and care is expensive often prohibitive. KPO proposes to address this livelihood issue through skill training and an innovative Incubation Center/ common facility center concept. These would be modeled on sustainable lines and would provide ease to start-ups by lowering the break-even point.
Improving access to medical services for the poor by providing access to mentally challenged people and their family as they are the poorest of the poor, through convergence and social interventions.
- Promoting an enabling environment for pro-poor economic growth by:
- Skill building for sustained income generation
- New avenues for income generation and employment
- Facilitating the process by providing infrastructure – Incubation Centre/ CFC
- Encouraging cluster growth through common facilities and initiatives for small and micro enterprises
- Addressing problems hampering growth of economic activities that engage significant numbers of poor persons
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