Volunteer in India with Disabled Children

 

Name of the Project/s requiring Volunteers: Special school for children with mental disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, autism and other disabilities

 

Organisation Activities in Brief: This organisation works for grassroots development and aims at empowering disabled, destitute and abandoned women, children and the elderly.

 

It seeks to:

 

Create awareness of the rights of oppressed  women, children and education for all

Create a society based on health and family welfare

Build community capacities to become self-sustainable through the promotion of  healthy lifestyles, environmental protection and various workshops and campaigns

Stimulate the concept of ‘self help’ through community participation

 

In addition to this the organisation also runs a special school for disabled children where volunteers are required.

 

Project Information: This Special School is an intervention centre for children with Cerebral Palsy, mental disabilities, autism and multiple disabilities between the ages of 0-16 years. Children are referred to the centre from both remote villages and urban slums by medical professionals. Children are identified through a new born screening assessment and then given needs based therapeutic intervention for their development, along with parental counselling. At age 6 children are enrolled in our special school and provided with activities for daily functional living and suitable vocational training.

 

City / Village: Thiruthuraipundi

 

State: Tamil Nadu

 

Project Duration: Ongoing

 

Project start date: Ongoing

 

Language Preference: English

 

Experience required: Previous skills and experience related to the project is advantageous but not required

 

Attributes/Qualities required:

Interested in working with children with disabilities

Motivated, pro-active and committed

The organisation is also open to new ideas and techniques to develop the centre

 

 

Period of volunteering opportunity: 6 months

 

Age Range: 21 - 50 years

 

Accommodation if Available and details: Volunteers can be accommodated in the Swadhar Women Shelter Home and De-Addiction Centre, about 8 km from our project office. This lodging is free of cost

 

Meals if available and details: Normal meals will be provided at free of cost

 

Transportation if available and details: Government and private buses are locally frequently available. Volunteers can also use a bicycle provided by the organization.

 

Typical work/s for volunteer:                           

 

Institutional  Based Rehabilitation

 

1.      To facilitate the children motor development

2.      To normalise muscle tone

3.      To prevent further contracture and deformity

4.      To reduce the pathological reflex

5.      To improve the gait pattern

 

Community Based Rehabilitation

 

1.      To maintain the proper posture in all positions e.g. : sitting and standing

2.      To improve the gait pattern by using wooded parallel bars

3.      To improve the activities of daily living skills and adaptive devices

4.      To prevent problems like contracture, deformity and to provide training to parents to do passive, stretching to limbs.

 

For more information contact: volunteer@responsenet.org