Snehadeep Trust for the Disabled
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Mission Statement
Snehadeep Trust for the Disabled was established in 1999 by three highly motivated graduates, all visually impaired, who had a strong desire to help people with disabilities experience the life opportunities for which they had to fight so hard to obtain. The principal goals of Snehadeep are to provide accommodation, education, training and assistance with personal development to both the visually impaired and physically challenged. In recent years, the organization has grown and now extends its activities to shelter not only those with physical disability but also children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Snehadeep’s approach to the empowerment and advancement of challenged individuals has always been holistic. Snehadeep has long acknowledged the importance of Information Technology and its role in enabling challenged individuals to participate in education and work and employment on a more equal basis. One major goal was to establish
About This Cause
ABOUT SNEHADEEP TRUST FOR THE DISABLED Snehadeep Trust for the Disabled was established in 1999 by three highly motivated graduates, all visually impaired, who had a strong desire to help people with disabilities experience the life opportunities for which they had to fight so hard to obtain. The principal goals of Snehadeep are to provide accommodation, education, training and assistance with personal development to both the visually impaired and physically challenged. In recent years, the organization has grown and now extends its activities to shelter not only those with physical disability but also children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Snehadeep’s approach to the empowerment and advancement of challenged individuals has always been holistic. Snehadeep has long acknowledged the importance of Information Technology and its role in enabling challenged individuals to participate in education and work and employment on a more equal basis. One major goal was to establish a residential computer training centre. This goal was realized in April 2009 when Snehadeep started a free residential computer training course for the visually and physically challenged. A large number of students have benefitted from this. Training is also provided in the areas of motivation, personal development, confidence building and communication skills. From 15th April 2009, in addition to offering the regular courses, Snehadeep invited key personalities from different fields of expertise to provide special coaching in leadership, motivation, communication in English and computer studies. These included Mr. Rajdeep (Head of the Department of Commerce and Accountancy, Mahaveer Jain College) who is visually challenged and Mr Yogi Annish(Corporate Trainer and expert in advocacy, yoga and leadership). Volunteers from the Rotary Club also devoted many hours to teaching students at the centre. Snehadeep has also taken an integrated education project to benefit 76 hearing-impaired, mentally challenged and physically challenged students. This project is spread across six government and aided schools. ABOUT OUR TRUSTEES : Mr. Paul Muddha is the recipient of National Award received from His Excellency, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in 2004 for best employee among the disabled in the country and for social service. He was also conferred the Governors Award in 2002 by the Karnataka Government for his services to the society. Being orphan and vision impaired, he had to struggle at every stage of his life before becoming a manager in a nationalized bank. After a long struggle in school, he faced difficulty in getting admission to the college because of financial problems and visual impairedness. He was also denied a MBA seat in the Bangalore University. He had to struggle to secure his basic right of education, running pillar to post and representing his case to the Chancellor of University, Chief Minister and the Governor of the State. Ultimately, he became the first vision impaired student to complete the MBA course from Bangalore University. His success motivated many vision impaired persons to get admission for pursuing higher education in the Bangalore University. Mr. Shrimannanarayan B. G. has a strong academic and educational background. He has earned several higher level qualifications including four Masters degrees and a number of diplomas. He continues his involvement in education, acting as a visiting professor at law colleges, university colleges and for various MBA students. He is presently employed as a conciliation officer in the Department of Labour in the State Government of Karnataka. In 2009, Mr. Narayan was honoured by Her Excellency Prathibha Devisingh Patil, the President of India, with an Award in the Disabled Category. Mr. K. G. Mohan, is highly educated and has undertaken several courses to teach the visually challenged. He has also undergone stenography training and currently works for State Bank of India. INCORPORATING TECHNOLOGY: Snehadeep is well-versed with JAWS [Job access with speech], a screen reading software that is used to facilitate the visually impaired to learn computers. CURRENT PROGRAMMES: 1. We provide Free Residential training on Computers and MS office to the differently abled students. 2. We are also providing Free Residential training on English language and soft skills to our differently-abled students, Motivational skills, Interpersonal skills to face the interview. 3. We conduct sessions and seminars to create awareness about the needs & ability of the differently abled through seminars & setting up of placement & vocational training cells. 4. We also take our differently abled students to Corporate tour to have an exposure of Corporate environment. 5. We encourage our students for sports & cultural activities and organize events annually. 6. We train our students to face competitive exams both in government and private sectors. 7. We would like to place on record that all our previous batch trained students have been successfully placed in Good jobs (Government and Private). 8. To encourage Blind sportsmen and women we conduct State level Cricket and State level football tournaments and for the first time India All India Blind football tournament - 2017 where 19 teams across India participated in this Tournament OTHER ACTIVITIES: Snehadeep considers it its moral responsibility to be a diligent and pervasive support to the specially challenged. It has conducted several seminars on the burning issues facing them. The recent seminar was on the Disability Act where it recommended 52 amendments to the act through the Governor of State (Karnataka). Snehadeep also takes initiatives to conduct health camps, particularly eye check up camps to better the vision of the blind and instil a ray of hope among them. This year alone. 50 eye operations have been conducted, in addition to providing corrective lenses and vision to 6 students. ACHIEVEMENTS: Snehadeep has empowered and placed more than 300 students in good jobs in a short span. They consider Snehadeep as Alma Mater and elixir of life. We have organised a seminar on mobility which led to installation of music bells across Traffic signals all over Bengaluru leading to better mobility for the visually impaired. We have organised a seminar on changes in the persons with disability act which led to the formation of a new drafting committee for the act which is under consideration for amendment and soon a new act will come in force. We have organised Hands on training to tackle competitive exams and students have cleared exams to join State bank of India, State Bank of Mysore, Canara bank Vision for the Future: To empower differently abled communities and making self-sustainable by motivating people throughout the world to open their minds, accept and support people with disabilities. Our responsibility has increased three folds this year to serve the differently abled. Your timely help will give an impetus to improve our ongoing projects, expand few more activities like Call Centre and Skill development to the challenged and boost our morale. We would like to place on record that many of our trained candidate have got good employment both in the private as well as government especially the nationalized banks in India. We are also happy to inform you that we have placed our visually impaired in CISCO, Vmware, Wipro, Nationalized banks like SBI, Canara Bank to name a few. At present we support 102 visually impaired students in Computer training, softskills and for higher education. All the 102 students stay at Snehadeep and have shown remarkable progress both in education and extracurricular activities and we have supported 30 hearing impaired and currently 20 of them are taking up the training. We have also supported 2,800 non residential visually challenged in providing aids and Equipment, book, uniform and stationary and phones.