Name of the organization: SPASTICS SOCIETY OF KARNATAKA
Date of establishment: 1982
Location: 31, V Cross, Indiranagar I Stage, Bangalore – 560038, India
Description of area: Units Located at
Kempapura Agrahara Urban Slum
Yelahanka Satellite Town: Middle Class Residential 2 villages near Yelahanka.
Current contact person: Javahar Rabindran
Current Address: Same as above (Spastics Society)
Current Phone number: 5274633, 5281831, 5280935 (091 080)
Current number of children:
Kempapura Agrahara: 36 Nos.
Yelahanka: 19 Children
10-20 children is expected to be found in the two new villages.
Current Girl/Boy ratio:
Boy
Girl
Kempapura Agrahara
21
15
Yelahanka
10
9
Current Teacher/student ratio:
Kempapura Agrahara - 1:9 + one Helper
Yelahanka - 1:7 + one Helper
Over all school attendance percentage: 60 to 70%
Medium of Instruction: Kannada
Details on School curriculum (please attach additional sheets if necessary):
Non Formal Education is the main curriculum
Education is individually planned depending on the abilities of the children. Education
leading to independent living as near as possible, including basic needs i.e.,
basic math’s, basic language and environmental sciences using project method of
teaching. As the children grow older prevocational & vocational things is
also taught. Where the basic math, language & communication would be useful.
Please describe the long term goals of the project. Please mention any changes you may foresee:
Improve community awareness. Set up a vocational training unit at Kempapura Agrahara –
form parent group being a registered organisation, leading to self sustainability of the project.
Develop community participation of the community do a Pilot study in the villages to be
covered to pursue medical rehabilitation is very important.
How much longer is funding required:
in the overall rehabilitation of a person with disability...
Kempapura Agrahara – We aim to self sustainability by 5 year from now.
Yelahanka – As the project is young at least 10 year period may be required.
In Kempapura Agrahara as the community is cosmopolitan in nature and there is no county bonding. Our aim of self
sustainability has chances of not fulfilling by the target date. Current total budge Rs. 40 Lakhs approx
Current total income of your project and details of funds from other sources:
Grant from Government aid
Rs.1.20 lakhs
CBR Forum fund
Rs. 2.50 lakhs
Concern India Trust
Rs.1.00 lakhs
Asha Seattle
Rs. 1.45 lakhs
Sponsorship & donations local/extension to cover the remaining part of the budget.
Percentage of funds being sponsored by Asha: 3.625%
Description of current school facilities (building, equipment etc):
Kempapura Agrahara:
8’x12’ Room with toilet attached electricity & water available, fan, steel cupboards, mattress,
carpet, cut out tables with coverseat, Rolletor w/c
Yelahanka:
single bedroom accommodation, bedroom and as classroom \ size of plot 30’x40’. Building on rent (Rs.2,500/-) pm. Steel cupboard,
2 Tables + 6 petochairs.
Describe the potential improvements required in facilities:
Kempapura Agrahara - Vocational training unit to be started in another building with
splint making to be included has been not done so far as space is not enough.
Yelahanka - Addition of two village units would help rural children to get quality
rehabilitation and the help given to the yelahanka town would be helpful for
having a base from where we can work.
What are the perceived improvements seen for the last year?
Kempapura Agrahara:
Awareness has improved, number of children has improved, the needs have increased, more
space is requested for vocational training program. Shows the improvement of
the demand, local people are empowered.
Yelhanka:
Spastic society develops on needs, Yelahanka was started with intentions of helping few children in
Yelahanka New town. Since the last year the number has increased form 4 Nos. to 14 Nos. and also
children from near by villages has been covered on a 1/7 visits and are wanting
to start some thing in their villages hence the new project envisaged.
What are the problems you have faced last year?
The major problem in Agrahara is now ‘space’ with the involvement of Asha funding
we are able to give quality management and increase awareness. The number has shot up remarkably well and we
had problems of including all the children. As there are few older children who
need vocational training we did start it in a small way of doing plastic bags
(hand woven) garlands and door mats using waste cloth.
Yelahanka: Sustenance of the unit to start with, was space. As they are in a rented accommodation they needed to shift in the
last year. Luckily space was found with out
problems last year but this could be / may be a problem in future. But the optimism of the parents there
makes it look like that this program will continue forever.
What do you think is the overall effectiveness of this project over the
past year?
As the Yelahanka project is new, awareness and acceptance of the community for a
program as the project has become visible now. Community support has developed.
Anything you would like to say to us:
We at spastic society are quite happy about the support from Asha Seattle as it is
helping us to support programs. The above programs are directly under SSK Administration as well as financial
support are from SSK. Staff identification in Yelahanka New town has
been done. A staff in one of the villages has been already identified. 3 staff
are yet to be identified will be done by July. At present 18 children + 6
children in the villages will be benefiting from this program. Premises has
been identified at Yalahanka new town. It has been running for 2 years with a lot of hiccups. At
present the children are young Screen Printing and phenyl making has been envisaged.