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Project Utthaan

Project Utthaan is about providing hearing aids and equipments, and basic lodging facilities to physically challenged (deaf and dumb) students of the Alok Swatantra Vidhyalaya (ASV) school. The school is situated in a remote town of Dhenkanal in the state of Orissa in east India. Currently this school is run by a local NGO (Non-Govt Organization) Akshyam Kalyana Samiti. The founder of this NGO is ex-chief minister Late Nandini Satpathy and the aim of this NGO is to provide educational and vocational benefits for physically challenged chidren.

These students do not have good hearing aids; most of them do not have it at all. They have no speech trainer necessary to calibrate their tone and loudness of their voice and no audiometer to calibrate their hearing capacity. The available lodging facility is well below an average lodging facility in India and is in poor hygienic condition.

The proposed project asks for hearing aids, speech trainer, audiometer, and sleeping beds (6ft x 3ft, attached cupboard facility) for around 130 students. Funding of this project will bring following benefits to the students:

• Provision of basic education and living conditions for physically challenged students.
• Ensuring their participation in mainstream society.
• Realization of self-esteem, self-respect, and independence.
• Creation of equal opportunities for education and employment.

Financial Overview

• Audio Meter for 100 students for better hearing - 3K Euros
• Speech Trainer (to tone the voice) - 1K Euros
• Hearing Aids (ear machine) - 5K Euros
• Sleeping Beds (6ft x 3ft with attached cupboard) - 11K Euros

Total Aid Required - 20K Euros

Project Schedule*

• Initiation - December 2007
• Completion - May 2008

*The above schedule is subject to change depending on the actual start of the project.