Our vision
Our vision is to create a suitable environment for children with disabilities within the area so they may become involved in household and social activities equally with able people. This vision includes the development of Patan CBR into a CBR Resource Centre in collaboration with various government and non-government organizations.
Currently we operate in only a small part of our target districts:
| Lalitpur: | the city of Patan and 19 out of 41 rural communities (VDCs) | |
| Kathmandu: | the city of Kathmandu and 6 out of 57 VDCs | |
| Nuwakot: | 1 out of 61 VDCs |
We currently provide help for around 700 children with disabilities, out of an estimated total in the area of over 40,000.
Objectives
We have a number of key aims and objectives in the short to medium term:
Treatment
- More disabled children to improve their functional capacities towards independent living in society.
- More disabled children to receive treatment and surgery in medical institutions.
- More disabled children to decrease their handicap by use of assistive devices - wheelchairs etc.
Awareness and coverage
- More government and development organizations to include disability issues in their agendas, allocate resources, and create facilities for equal opportunity for disabled children.
- CBR facilities to be extended into more of the remote areas within the three districts covered by our organization.
Access to education
- More disabled children to be enrolled in general and special schools.
- More schools to accommodate children with disabilities.
- Model inclusive schools (5 initially) to be established for demonstrating disabled-friendly environments.
Participation
- More disabled children to become actively involved in children’s clubs in their communities, with equal respect and status.
- More inclusive children’s clubs to be established and strengthened.
- Consultation with children’s groups in organizational matters and activities to become a regular occurrence.
Disability prevention
- Root causes of the most common disabilities to be identified and strategies developed to address the problems.
- More and better services to be provided for the early detection and prevention of diseases causing disability.
