MBA Foundation
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Mission Statement
Life with Self-esteem and Dignity for the Disabled
About This Cause
MBA (Mutually Beneficial Activities) Foundation is a non-profit public charitable trust, started in January 2002 focusing initially to: • Provide Training & Sheltered Day Care Services For Adult Persons With Disabilities, Unable to Find Gainful Occupation In Mainstream Or Self-Employment; • Lifelong Residential Care to answer the parents’ traumatic question “ After us, what?”, for their wards with special needs…… With A MISSION: “A Life with Self-Esteem & Dignity for the Disabled.” ; A VISION: “Every Disabled Person has Access To all Facilities for Rehabilitation”; And A STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE: Integrated Care Services Under One Roof (Single window services) Our Integrated Care Services Are On The Lines Indicated Below:-.1. For Children with special needs: Early Intervention to integrate them in schools. 2. For The Educable Youth: Distant Education Under National Open School. 3. For The Educated: Executive Development & Training Placement Services. 4. For Trainable: Vocational Training & Value-Adding Activities. 5. For Severely disabled: Training For Activities Of Daily Living. 6. For Needy Persons: Life Care Including Residential Facilities. 7. Allied Support Activities: Assessment & Therapy, Training The Trainers. Our team MBA Foundation Management team consists of the Board of Trustees, Advisors, and Executive Committee members. It follows all systems, methods, and practices laid down, to have a transparent forward looking organization and comply with all government regulations. Executive Trustees, Chairman, and Vice-Chairperson have been at the elm of the organization in the last 15 years. Now the team is headed by an Executive Trustee and CEO, with Project Coordinators, Accounts & Admin Manager, and Events & Program Manager. Day Care staff consists of Professionally trained Special Educators, Physiotherapists, Speech Therapists, Occupational therapists, Psychotherapists, and MSW Social Worker. All of them are well experienced in the respective fields for a minimum of 7 years and are well oriented to take care of children and adults with special needs. LifeCare Centres, in addition, have Housemasters, Caregivers, Cooks, etc. on a residential basis, to help the beneficiaries round the clock. Achievements - Rewards and Recognitions • Manav Seva Dharma – Sadguru Gynananada Award in 2003. • Asia Pacific Childhood Disability Award in 2005. • Samaj Shakti Awards by Harihara Putra Samaj in 2007 • Women Substance Award in 2008. • Giant Group Award in 2008 • Harmony Silver Award in 2009 • Swami Vivekananda International Foundation National Award 2011 • Helen Keller Award was presented to our Vice-Chairperson during her tenure with the Spastics Society of India (in 2000) for Employment of Persons with Disabilities from the hands of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. and Many many more awards... KEY TIMELINES AND MILESTONES: Individual Action Plan of each trainee depends on their abilities which can be tapped by the trainers to make them value-adding; therefore, a strict timeframe cannot be maintained; but over the years, thru experience, and with the guidelines from the government and other institutions, we have been able to make the following overall work plan. Early Intervention group, children (1 to 10 years) are given therapy, special education, etc., as per their assessment needs. They are trained on a one-to-one basis and made ready for schooling. Last year, 3 children have been integrated into the regular schools after being trained and educated in the early intervention clinic for 3 years. Presently 17 children avail of this facility in Powai and Airoli… 4-5 have been integrated into regular/special schools as per their need… Pre-vocational Training and National open school facilitation. Children in the age group of 11 to 17 years, who cannot attend regular school or due to inability in progressing in academics, are admitted in the Pre-vocational Training group. These adolescents are prepared for their future with functional academics and training with necessary developmental skills, attention span enhancement, group, and individual therapy. Educable Children are given coaching for National Open School. Presently, we have 9 children in this group. Children in this group are prepared for moving into formal Vocational Training and or join NIOS to complete school finals and look for opportunities for employment. Vocational Training. About 175 Youngsters (above 18 years) have undergone Vocational training in various making and packing of user-friendly products. Out of these, 125 are in our Sheltered Workshops (Day Care) making value-adding products like cleaning items, fancy art, and craft items, stitched items, and condiments. They all earn a stipend for their contribution and also avail therapy, yoga, and relaxation services. A few others have moved out of Mumbai; some were able to work in the family business. 4 of them passed away due to illness….. 78 educated youngsters have been placed in good jobs after a course of 6 months training in Executive Development and Training Program and are absorbed in good companies like TCS, ADFC, Aurion Pro, Deutsche Bank (back office), Satveeka Trading Company, and others in the field of Hospitality, Trading, Accounting, etc. Most of them have been able to settle in life with economic independence, marriage, and children. For the severely disabled, Training in activities of daily living is given to make them as much independent as possible to manage most of one’s own requirements like dressing, bathing, eating, and other outdoor activities, as per the individual capacity. A number of avenues are provided for about 200 trainees (children and adults) with different types and levels of disabilities; and more than 1500 people have benefitted from assessment, therapy, counseling, placement in good jobs, etc. Life Care Services…30 youngsters, with varying disabilities, have been accommodated permanently as life care beneficiaries in the residential facility in Powai (for girls) and Gorai (for boys). These youngsters either have no parents or parents who are old and sick and cannot take care of them. This facility also includes the other daycare occupation, relaxation, therapy activities as well to keep them happy, and healthy with occupation. Medical care in association with Dr. L.H. Hiranandani Hospital for all beneficiaries has a yearly health checkup, followed by required treatment. This is a huge support for the organization. New Computer Training & Placement- AMBA Foundation This course is to provide sustainable livelihood to adults with moderate to severe intellectual disability, leveraging Information Technology. It also works towards building an ecosystem of learning and earning for these individuals using Information Technology, giving them the dignity and independence that they deserve. Adults joining this training will benefit from learning and working around their peers, helping with their development and state of well-being. We are trying out for the first time now for youngsters with Intellectual impairments with support from another NGO in the field, Amba Foundation, Bangalore. Contents: • Stage I: Activities to introduce and reinforce numbers and the alphabet • Stage II: Functional visual learning with simple computer programs • Stage III: Two window data entry utilizing visual learning • Stage IV: Work training using proxy data entry forms • Stage V: Work training on live data entry forms Future Plan: We plan on setting up a PERMANENT hub to abet huge Growth and Reach. Apart from people with Intellectual disabilities, the Hub would also comprise regular personnel to (a) service business from Day I and complete if necessary, residual work from the spokes (the MBA Centres) which will be small units comprising adults with intellectual disabilities. (b) The Hub would also do the marketing to support the centres with work. The Companies like Tata Teleservices, Airtel, Idea Cellular, Dinshaw Ice Cream are providing data entry job work for these trainees.