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AMAR SEVA SANGAM 10.2.163 Sulochana Gardens

Tenkasi Road, Ayikudy – 627 852. Tamil Nadu. India _____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________ Amar Sava Sangam ConfidentialVersion: 2.0

Funding Request Proposal for Vans for Sangamam School of Amar Seva Sangam,

Ayikudy

Submitted to

Asha for Education, Seattle

Date: 10thNovember 2017

Submitted by:S Sankara Raman,Honorary Secretary Phone: +91 99444 54170 Email id:[email protected] Website:www.amarseva.org




Table of Contents

1. PROPOSAL SUMMARY ...................................................................................................... 3

SANGAMAM – SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ................................................................ 3

2. ABOUT AMAR SEVA SANGAM ........................................................................................... 5

3. ACTIVITIES AT AMAR SEVA ............................................................................................... 5

3.1 INSTITUTION BASED REHABILITATION ................................................................................................. 5 3.1.1REHABILITATION ......................................................................................................................... 5 3.1.2 EDUCATION ............................................................................................................................... 6 3.1.3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF DISABLEDTHROUGH VOCATIONAL TRAINING .................................................... 6 3.2 VILLAGE BASED REHABILITATION ...................................................................................................... 6 3.3 EMPLOYMENT TO PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED ........................................................................................ 6

4. ABOUT SANGAMAM – SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN .................................................... 6

5. NEED STATEMENT .......................................................................................................... 11

6. FUNDING REQUEST ......................................................................................................... 11

7. CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................. 11

8. MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................................. 13

ANNEXURE 1– SERVICE USERS REACH ..................................................................................... 15




1. Proposal Summary

Amar Seva Sangam (ASSA) is a premier organisation in the field of disability management focusing on rural areas, located in Ayikudy Village in Tirunelveli District in South Tamil Nadu, about 160 kms from Madurai. Sri S. Ramakrishnan, while in his 4th year engineering, injured his spine while attending the last round of Naval officers’ selection test and became a quadriplegic. He established ASSA in 1981, the year for the Disabled and named it after his Doctor and mentor Air Marshal Dr. Amarjit Singh Chahal of Defence hospital. Shri Ramakrishnan is the President of ASSA. Sri S. Sankara Raman, a Chartered Accountant and a wheel chair user, affected by muscular dystrophy joined ASSA in 1992. He is the Secretary of ASSA. Together they have built a Valley for the physically challenged in a 30 acre land at Aiykudy, as a Rehabilitation and Development Centre and developing models for self-help initiatives by integrating the disabled individuals with the society for improved living conditions. Several Institution based initiatives and Village based rehabilitation programmes are offered to provide rehabilitation, education, training and employment Generation to physically challenged people across 800 plus village and 14000+ people

SANGAMAM – School for Special children

Sangamam literally means integration / meeting. In this school meant for Special children in the age group of 6 to 16, we try to prepare them to get integrated gradually with the society at large to the extent possible in each case.

Children with special needs learn more slowly than a typical child. People with mild intellectual disability are capable of learning reading and get mathematics skills to approximately the level of a typical child aged nine to twelve. Moderate intellectual disability is nearly always apparent within the first few years. People with moderate intellectual disability need considerable support in school, at home, and in the community in order to participate fully. While their academic potential is limited, they can learn simple health and safety skills and participate in simple activities. Our special children are also provided training for behaviour modification through special education techniques. The kids are trained in daily living skills such as eating, dressing, grooming, and toileting so that they can attend to their daily needs with more confidence as the ordinary children of their age group. From 1997 to 2017 we had enrolled 221 children with special needs out of which 46 have been successfully mainstreamed. At present we have 8 special educators and 2 special educator assistants, 2 teaching assistants and 4 helpers besides attending to the needs of 95 children. In addition to that 25




children which consist of 21 boys and 4 girls have been mainstreamed in general schools along with normal peers. They are picked up from four different directions from their residences in the rural villages and dropped back at their doorsteps by our van free of cost. In some cases, escorts wherever needed for some children who also accompany them in the van. Sangamam School does not have vehicles of their own. Presently, the vans of Siva Saraswati Vidyalaya, our inclusive Higher Secondary School are pressed in to service to fetch these children as well. This causes heavy burden on the time management and thereby inconveniences the children in many respects viz., the special children are made to spend more time in the school. Some children miss out their timely food and medicines. This proposal is for seeking funds for purchase of two pick up vans exclusively for our Sangamam School children for a total cost of Rs.32,75,210.




2. About Amar Seva Sangam

Vision of Amar Seva Sangam: To establish a valley for the Disabled, whereby physically / mentally challenged persons live in a pro-active society where equality prevails irrespective of physical, mental or other challenged with the rest of the society. It is a futuristic vision whereby Amar Seva Sangam plays the role of an enabling agent to get the physically / mentally challenged “equality of status, equality in opportunities and equality in access”. It is a society where people are identified as differently abled. Mission of Amar Seva Sangam: To empower the disabled citizens by establishing a “Valley for the Disabled” as a Rehabilitation and Development Centre for the region and developing models for self-help initiatives by integrating the disabled individuals with the society for improved living conditions in the villages

3. Activities at Amar Seva

3.1 Institution based rehabilitation

Amar Seva Sangam has established many initiatives over the years to rehabilitate physically challenged people in many ways as described below.

3.1.1Rehabilitation

y Home for physically challenged poor children with free accommodation, food, clothing, medical care, appliances and education

y Day care Centre for Special children to train them on self-care and hygienic activities and basic literacy. Early intervention programs to enable identify such children at a very young stage and then to rehabilitate them using modern techniques. Their parents are also trained to help the children after discharge

y Caliper making unit to make mobility aids to the needy free of cost and later free maintenance

y Medical testing unit to evaluate persons with disability, offer physiotherapy services, refer where necessary to specialized hospitals for corrective surgeries

y Post-acute care Centre for the Spinal injured offering rehabilitation and medical intervention along with vocational training. Spinal cord Injured Post-Acute Care Centre Paraplegia and Quadriplegia patients are provided Post-Acute care like Physio therapy, medical support, nursing and counselling. After ensuring mobility, they are given vocational training for skill development depending on their physical condition and educational background.




3.1.2 Education

y Running an inclusive Play School, Nursery, Middle and High school where local poor children as well as physically challenged children staying at ASSA are provided quality education

y Running special study Centre of IGNOU and Alagappa University for higher learning to conduct diploma, degree and post graduate courses

y Running Institute to conduct diploma programs in Rehabilitation

3.1.3 Skill development of Disabled through Vocational Training

y Free vocational training for skill development in the areas of Computer operations, Advanced Information Technology, Typewriting, Notebook making and book binding, Tailoring and garment making, Handicrafts, Cell phone servicing, Servicing of home appliances and Soft skill training

3.2 Village based rehabilitation

y Our activities extend outside our premises also. Mainly it is in the form of Village based rehabilitation initiatives where we have formed Self-help groups and also established Respite centers in villages for day care of physically and mentally challenged

3.3 Employment to Physically Challenged

We believe that x Physically challenged are as productive and reliable as other employees x Most of them only need minimal and basic adjustments at work x They can work successfully in a wide range of jobs x They should be treated with the same respect and dignity as any other employee

As a pioneer organisation in caring for the differently able, we go out to give preference to physically challenged people for most of our jobs. We currently have 54 physically challenged employees in our rolls out of the total staff strength of 271, working out as 20% of our employees. In addition, we also have 3 full time Spinal injured volunteers who have been successfully rehabilitated after treatment in our Post-Acute care Centre of Spinal injured

4. About SANGAMAM – School for Special children

Sangamam literally means integration / meeting. In this school meant for Special children in the age group of 6 to 16, we try to prepare them to get integrated gradually with the society at large to the extent possible in each case. Children with special needs learn more slowly than a typical child. People with mild intellectual disability are capable of learning reading and get mathematics skills to approximately the level of a typical child aged nine to twelve. Moderate intellectual disability is nearly always apparent within the first few years. People with moderate intellectual disability need considerable support in school, at home, and in the community in order to participate fully. While their academic




potential is limited, they can learn simple health and safety skills and participate in simple activities. Our special children are also provided training for behaviour modification through special education techniques. The kids are trained in daily living skills such as eating, dressing, grooming, and toileting, so that they can attend to their daily needs with more confidence as the ordinary children of their age group. In 1997, a day care centre was started with just 9 children and 2 teachers. What was initially only a spastic center has now grown into a full-fledged preparatory school for special children. Some of them from far off places are now accommodated as Residential care students also while the majority is day care students. With your generous and kind support our school is expanding its activities. From 1997 to 2017 we had enrolled 221 children with special needs out of which 46 have been successfully mainstreamed. At present we have 8 special educators and 2 special educator assistants, 2 teaching assistants and 4 helpers besides attending to the needs of 95 children. In addition to that 25 children which consist of 21 boys and 4 girls have been mainstreamed in general schools along with normal peers. They are picked up from four different directions from their residences in the rural villages and dropped back at their doorsteps by our van free of cost. In some cases, escorts wherever needed for some children who also accompany them in the van. The infrastructure so created includes 8 class rooms, a store room, an office room and a physiotherapy hall. Apart from these, we also have a play area with a slide, a pair of swings, a parallel bar, a merry go round and motor planning equipment to improve their gross motor activities involving more muscular movement.




Special children term covers broad categories of Mentally Retarded, Cerebral Palsy and Autism affected. Their “Special needs” is a broad umbrella under which a staggering array of diagnoses can be fitted. Children with special needs may have mild learning disabilities or profound cognitive impairment; food allergies or terminal illness; developmental delays that catch up quickly or remain entrenched; occasional panic attacks or serious psychiatric problems. The designation is useful for getting needed services, setting appropriate goals, and gaining understanding for a child and its stressed family. The children are brought to school by our own bus. They are provided free uniform, nutritious lunch, biscuits and milk. They are trained in daily living activities, behavioral science, self-care, basic reading, writing and vocational skills. Rehabilitation services like Special education, Physiotherapy, Speech therapy and Yoga are also part of the curriculum to improve their health and intellectual ability. We have divided the classes as Primary, Primary 1, Secondary and Pre-vocational stages. In the case of new admissions, the child is sent to a suitable class based on the age and ability assessed through Basic Mental Retardation check list. 9 At Primary level, focus is on developing their activities of daily living like grooming, bathing

and toileting. Then basic conceptual developments in cognition along with language development and basic reading and writing skills are imparted.




9 At Secondary level the focus is on training the children (10-14 yrs of age) in the area of reading, writing, language and arithmetic skills.

9 Once the children are ready to cope up with general curriculum, they are shifted to a suitable class in our High school where they continue studies with general students including physically challenged. The teachers are fully apprised of taking care of the needs of the Special children. Our resource teacher also helps them to carry on their basic academics so that there is a smooth transition.

9 At primary 1 level, children who have not achieved the par 80% or more will be transferred to

this class and more intensive training will be given as like primary class will be given to the children with different teaching strategies.

9 Pre vocational class consists of children of age group 14-18 where they will be given basic training for cutting, pasting and counting which will be helpful for their future vocational and income generated activities.




9 Our students are encouraged to take part in cultural and sports competitions and have won several cups and shields at district as well as state levels. The events include Singing, dancing, collage work, drawing, art and craft work, fancy dress, 100 / 50 meter running, musical chair, long jump, hurdles, cricket ball throw, long jump, shot put and potato gathering.

Sangamam School does not have vehicles of their own. Presently, the vans of Siva Saraswati Vidyalaya, our inclusive Higher Secondary School are pressed in to service to fetch these children as well. This causes heavy burden on the time management and thereby inconveniences the children in many respects viz., the special children are made to spend more time in the school waiting for their turn to return home. Some children miss out their timely food and medicines adding to their problems . SUCCESS STORY V.Thangasudali She was enrolled in July 2005 in Special School. She was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (90%). Initially she had difficulties with toilet control and required more specialized attention in education. After two years of training in hygiene and education in special school, she felt confident to be integrated in regular school. She was integrated into Siva saraswathi vidyalaya school at 2007. Now she is even more confident as she studies 10th std in a regular school. She has secured 414 marks in the Public examination. She developed academic skills in all areas of curriculum and competent enough with their peers. Along with academic skills she also developed social and emotional skills in inclusive setup. She doesn’t need any special support from additional teacher as her class teacher is confident on her independent learning skills.




5. Need Statement

x Sangamam School does not have exclusive vans at its disposal x A minimum of two vehicles required to ferry Sangamam children from various villages

in and around our Campus. x Presently three vehicles from our Siva Saraswati Higher Secondary School are pressed

in to service to pick up these children in addition to the load of ferrying the regular school children

x The number of special children attending our Sangamam school is gradually increasing, necessitating a minimum of two pick up vehicles. The present strength of Sangamam School is 95 children. Out of this 66 children are getting basic training and therapy. 29 children who have shown improvement are attending our regular inclusive school. 25 more children, who are our past students, are attending Sangamam School for vocational training and other activities.

x Exclusive vans for the purposes of Sangamam School activities would ease the pressure of bringing the children to the Sangamam School on time and drop them back on time as well.

6. FUNDING REQUEST

The total cost of two Eicher Vans as per the quotation attached, comes to Rs.32,75,210. a) Eicher Bus 24+1seater (10.5) Rs. 14,95,672 b) Eicher Bus 30+1 seater (10.75) Rs. 17,79,538

Total Rs. 32,75,210

8. Conclusion

We request you to kindly consider our proposal positively and help us in our efforts which will make these children attend the Sangamam school regularly and therefrom benefit to get rehabilitated and join the mainstream society. S.Sankara Raman Hon. Secretary Email: [email protected] Mob: +91 9944454170 / 9361011585




8. Management

Visionaries Patrons

S. Ramakrishnan President

S. Sankara Raman Secretary

N.Vaghul Retired Chairman, ICICI

Prof. M.S. SwaminathanEminent

Scientist

S.V.Mony Retired Chairman, LIC




Annexure 1– Service Users reach

S.No. Service Type 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 1. Home for the physically challenged 47 Children 51 Children 43 Children 2. School for the Special Children 81 Children 77 Children 84 Children 3. Integrated School 753 Students 762 Students 838 Students 4. Hostel for Disabled Youth & On-Job

Trainees 46 Students 50 students 51 Students

5. Treatment and care giving to post-operative persons with Spinal Cord Injuries

15 Patients 29 Patients 33 Patients

6. Vocational Training Centre - Computer Training - Typewriting Training - Tailoring & Handicrafts Training

141 Students 42 Students 46 Students



7. IGNOU Special Study Centre 47 Students 43 Students 56 Students 8. Algappa University Study Centre 85 Students 109 students 122 Students 9. Caliper Making and Repairing Unit 1396Numbers 1423 Numbers 1346 Numbers 10. Books in Sivasankari Library 1488 Books 1357 books 4926 Books 11. Medical Testing Unit 622 Patients 684 Patients 617 Patients 12. Rehabilitation Centre

- Distribution and Maintenance of Tricycles and Wheel Chairs - Caliper, Auxiliary Crutches and Artificial Limbs issued - National Identity Card issued for Physically Challenged Persons - Providing free education, notebooks, uniforms to the physically challenged persons - Students who received vocational training

177 Numbers 359 Numbers 94 Numbers 54 Numbers 33 Numbers



13. Free Corrective Surgeries done 8 Patients 15 Patients -- 14. Beneficiaries through Village Based

Rehabilitation initiatives (VBRI) Programmed within a radius of 100 kms

3243 Service Users

30451 Service Users

30830 Service Users

15. Formation of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) 460 with 4640 members

487 with 4802 members

452 with 4939 members

16. Pudu Vazhvu Thittam of TN Govt 3259 Persons 3470 Persons 1172 Persons

AshaSea(leChapterNovember15,20171)  OneTimeFunding(referPDFdocument)

2)  GapoftherecurringfundingforyearJune2017throughMay2018AmarSevaSangam

Asha’s Contribution history (to sangamam school for special children)

Year AmountSentAshaStarContribuMons

Sentin2010 $3050

Sentin2011 $2530

Sentin2012 $2775

Sentin2013 $4337

SentinJan2014[sentoutinearly2014aspartofone-;me2013bufferdisbursements]

$4000

ConvertedasFullAshaProject(Sentin2014forJune2014toMay2015)

Rs.11lacs

SentinJuly2015 Rs.13.20lacs

SentinJuly/August2016(10%increase) Rs.14.52lacs

Reques;ngfor2017-2018(TeachersSalary) Rs.16lacs(requestRs.24lacs)

CurrentGap(NOV15TH->ADDITIONAL10%WASAPPROVEDI.E.10%OFRs.14.52lacs,Rs.1.5lacswasapproved.]

Rs.8lacs

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