This edition of the FODDER We Wish our Readers is sponsor ed by Paisley Achche Din Export Throughout Pvt. Ltd. DDDE 2016 Hari Nagar, New -110064 D E F O RR OD FFO -Team FOD Vol 7 No 3 Newsletter of Family of Disabled September-December 2015 For Private Circulation Only Contents A Dream Come True - Rehab Centre On this page Unnati is a Reality Now Dream Come True Novelist Langston Hughes has this to says: 'Hold fast to dreams, for if dream die, life is a broken winged Beyond Limits 2015... bird that cannot fly. We must be aware that life is what we make of it. It is all rosy if we approach it with Motorcycle Donated To FOD hope and positive action; and it becomes thorny if we fail to dream and act.’

2 hen FOD was launched in Vihar, Najafgarh, South West Delhi, as a Mileposts Newspace 1992 it did not have even testimony of people’s faith and trust in September 2011: Bought land measuring WRs.1000 for opening a bank FOD serving the people with different 338 sq yds from savings and borrowings 3 account, mandatory for registered social disabilities. Though, the Centre might June 2012: Donations followed after FOD The Last Four Months voluntary organization. Due to paucity of have taken long to come but the Divine was portrayed in Satyamev Jayate space, idea to build a rehab centre power saw us through nevertheless. April 2013: Foundation stone laid germinated around 2005 with an aim to Rajinder Johar Augus t 2015: Bhavan puja 4 handle bigger number of welfare October 2015: Builder hands over the My Wish Fulfilled programmes as well as people with structure to FOD November 2015: Centre becomes disabilities (PWDs). There was no money The 10 Most Generous People operational to build one. To realise the dream of In The World Objective: Holistic socio-economic 5 constructing a rehab centre extra efforts rehabilitation of PWDs with focus on Donors' List and energies were invested to generate training in livelihood skills. funds. At that time the idea looked like Services offered currently: Provision of Beyond Limits 2015 contd. building a castle in the air. We were loan to start/expand a petty trade; 6 laughed at by many for day dreaming Funding education; Job placement; FOD Programmes for the Welfare of considering FOD's penury. A lot of people Providing assistive gadgets; Promoting questioned ‘Are you sure you are going artists/ sculptors/ artisans; Mobile rehab Disabled People clinics; Cutting and stitching clothes; Basic to be doing that?’ But there were few Factually Speaking computer skills; Classes in spoken English Miss Wheelchair 2015 genuine well wishers who not only language; Personality development; encouraged us to go ahead in actualizing Counselling and consultation; Excursions Other Contributions our new venture but also extended and educational tours; Health Capsules, financial help in building the centre. To follow in phases: Culinary skills Believe it or not, Jokes Today, a three storey rehab centre upcycling beauty culture; physiotherapy; christened UNNATI stands in Shyam Marketable products from waste material; Source: Internet other welfare programmes Major Benefactors Who Helped In Construction Of UNNATI Rehab Centre

Unnati Rehab Centre Plot No. : 28-29 E Extn., Shyam Vihar Phase-I, Najafgarh, New Delhi-110043 Ph. No.: 9560693394 Mail : [email protected]

Mr. Aamir Khan Ms. Nita Ambani Mr. U S Sawhney Mr. M L Bhargava Scores of Donors Portrayed FOD in Chairperson Managing Director Managing Trustee, and Wellwishers Satymev Jayate Reliance Foundation Paisley Export Pvt. Ltd. LetzDream Beyond Limits-2015 Motorcycle Donated to FOD New Delhi: The twelfth annual exhibition-cum-sale of artworks 'Beyond Limits 2015' created by artists and sculptors with disabilities (AWDs) was put up at Arpana Art Gallery, Siri Fort Institutional Area, Khel Gaon, New Delhi from December 1-8. T h e p u r p o s e b e h i n d t h i s program is to provide platform to opportunity deprived AWDs w h o g e t sidelined due to multiple barriers including non a c c e p t a n c e attitude of the society. This year, works of 44 artists were Mr US Sawhney (second from right), a reputed businessman and (Standing L to R) Rajiv Chandran, National Information Officer, UNIC philanthropist donated TVS Apache motorcycle (180 CC)on September 17 for and Bhutan, Raman Bhatia, Managing Trustee, RNIPC, Ajeet selected by the jury comprising to FOD at its office. The bike will be used for extensive field work that FOD Caur, Chairman, Academy of Fine Arts & Literature, Arpana Caur noted and UNNATI rehab centre (an undertaking of FOD) have to conduct. Earlier Ms. Arpana Caur artist for Fine arts, Preeti from FOD and Balbir Krishan, an artist (in too, Mr. Sawhney was greatly instrumental in procuring land for UNNATI, wheelchair) lighting the ceremonial lamp at Beyond Limits 2015. Contd. on page 5 and equipping its cutting and stitching unit.

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In Brief NEWSPACE New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi PM Launches ‘Accessible India one had thought I would pass even my class 5 and now urged the commerce ministry on Nov 30 to slash the Campaign’ I have completed a PhD. This has been an emotional import duty on specialised equipment for visually New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi while journey,” said the wheelchair-bound scholar with impaired like Brailles, embossers, Braille paper etc. presenting National Awards on the International Day cerebral palsy on November 19. These devices are essential for tactile literacy, of Persons with Disabilities (December 3) launched Gupta's research and subsequent thesis, (Performance education, independence and empowerment. Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Enhancement of Mental Task Clarification, A study of S o u t h C a r o l i n a : Abhiyan). Under the campaign, government is to take Combination Feature Extraction and Selection Republican presidential up 50 important government buildings in 26 cities to Methods), is one of a kind because it talks about direct aspirant Donald Trump make them fully accessible in less than a year. communication between the human brain and a triggered controversy The campaign's main focus will be on three areas for computer. b y m o c k i n g a achieving universal accessibility, namely the built up journalist's physical Donald Trump environment, transportation and information and First Plane Build By Disabled disability at a campaign rally on November 24. The communication eco system. Person United States presidential election of 2016, is 45-year-old speech and scheduled for November 8. Yet Another Name hearing impaired Saji Mosul (Iraq): The Islamic State issued a fatwa in For 'Viklang' People Thomas designed and mid December asking its members to kill newborns New Delhi: People with built a twin-seater and children suffering from Down's Syndrome and disabilities have been bestowed ultralight aircraft on his other disabilities, according to Mosul Eye an Iraqi with a number of nomenclatures Narendra Modi own from used parts and activist group. The IS has already executed 38 babies from time immemorial viz crippled, invalid, recycled material, Saji Thomas and children who were suffering from various handicap, special, impaired and the latest trend of which got him into the record books and was featured deformities. The activist group informed on its social addressing them is differently-abled. On December on Discovery Channel in a programmes called HRX media platform. The victims range from ages of one 27 prime minister Narendra Modi while addressing Superheroes . The programme is anchored by actor, week to three months. the nation in radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' coined Hritik Roshan. His aircraft, called Saji X Air-S, has already done B h u b a n e s w a r : yet another word to address the disabled brethren i.e. several successful flights at a private flight training Jitender Kumar 'divyang' (person with extraordinary capabilities) academy owned by Thiruvananthapuram-based SKJ Biswal, a 44 -year - instead of 'viklang' Nair, a retired Wing Commander. old quadriplegic FOD sends out a humble appeal to right thinking VIIth dropout Thomas, whose name is mentioned in since childhood, has people to ponder a while if coining new words to India Book of Records as the first disabled person to conceptualized and address disabled fraternity would make any build an aircraft, often worked as a rubber tapper, an played the lead role Jitender Kumar Biswal difference in their wellbeing/empowerment. electrician and band photographer to earn a living. in 35- minute short film The Desire. It is a story of a Thomas has had to undergo severe hardships to build person with extreme disability and his relationship World's First Cybathlon the aircraft. First he could only construct the frame of with a normal girl. Biswal is a law graduate and holds S w i t z e r l a n d : I n an aircraft and the second one could not fly as an a certificate in business management. October this year, engine from a motor bike was used in it. After he sold Switzerland will host Bengaluru: December end the second aircraft's model to an engineering college, w o r l d ' s f i r s t media reports say Dr. Vishal he bought an aircraft engine and with that money he C y b a t h l o n - a n Rao, oncologist at HCG Cancer completed the work on the aircraft. Care has developed an easily Olympic-style contest affordable voice prosthesis that for physically disabled Guide Dogs Not Allowed can help throat cancer patients p e o p l e w h o u s e Liver Pool (UK): A 19- speak after surgery. The device is prosthetics and other aids. Events designed are similar year-old blind girl was priced just Rs. 50, weighs 25 Dr. Vishal Rao to everyday tasks. Number of teams to participate are forced to leave a Thai grams and measures 2.5 cm. The other prosthesis 54 so far, of these 75% are from research units restraint Yee Rah in early available in the market cost Rs. 20,000. Dr. Rao's working on better prosthetics device. Participants will September because she device has helped a watchman regain speech. work in teams with developer and a pilot to direct the had her guide dog with her. device. The aim of the event is to test technology that New Delhi: CBI on the last count on September 1 The teenager's guide dog, has been developed to help users with everyday task. found that there were 30,81,873 NGOs operating in a two-year-old Labrador India. Only 10% of these NGOs submit accounts of Retriever, had his status their funding and expenditure to the authorities as Zuckerberg The Philanthropist clearly indicated by a mandatorily required under the Societies Registration M a r k E l l i o t harness and signs saying 'Do not distract me, I'm a Act. Interestingly, there are 2 NGOs for every Zuckerberg, 31, is working dog'. “It is our policy across all restaurants policeman in the country. the chairman-cum- that guide dogs are allowed to come in,” said Yee New Delhi: Nearly six lakh visually impaired people chief executive, and Rah's branch manager Racheal Clarke. in India could regain vision if they underwent corneal co-founder of the transplant but a shortage of corneal donations results social networking IITs Not To Use Photographs in only 38,000 transplants each year. The acute website Facebook. Showing Disability shortage of corneal donations has led to a massive He pledged to give Mark Elliot Zuckerberg New Delhi: Chief Commissioner of Persons with backlog of transplant surgeries. In India, 2.5 lakh away 99% of the Facebook shares he and his wife Disabilities on October 28 asked IITs to stop making people need a corneal transplant for both eyes and 5.5 Priscilla Chan hold, to charitable purposes (health, physically-disabled applicants of Indian Institute of lakh need it for one eye, but only about 38,000 education, technology) made in an open letter to their Technology (IIT) to attach a picture of disability while surgeries happen according to Dr. JS Titiyal, daughter Maxima born on December 2. The shares filling up the forms. According to CCPD it amounts to chairperson, National Eye Bank, All India Institute of may be much more than their present estimate of $ 45 discrimination. Medical Sciences. billion as Facebook shares continue to appreciate IITs should stop using the form and adhere to the Islamabad: The execution of format of disability certificate as provided in the Abdul Basit, a paraplegic 95% Disabled Akshansh Gets PhD People with Disability Amendment Rules 2009, reads who was convicted of New Delhi: The the letter from the commissioner. murder in 2009, will be the 32-year-old Dr. The CCPD has also said that the candidature of the country's 300th, according to Akshansh Gupta candidates should not be cancelled on the basis of a Amnesty. Basit's execution from Jaunpur, different format of the disability certificate. has already been postponed UP, is the first Never put off till tomorrow what can several times after Rights Abdul Basit m a n w i t h Dr. Akshansh Gupta Groups raised concern about how he would mount the m u l t i p l e be done today. scaffold. Till writing this news his fate was not disabilities because of cerebral palsy, get a PhD in -Geoffrey Moss known. computers from Jawaharlal Nehru University. “No

Criticism makes you progressive. Where there is progress, there would be criticism. -Brahmrishi Shree Kumar Swami ji DDER September-December 2015 FOD FO R 3 The Last Four Months HELPED IN WEDDINGS AIDS & APPLIANCES WASTE MATERIAL: THE FUND DISTRIBUTION RAISER The third aids and appliances disbursal function for A S t a l l t o the financial year 2015-16 was held at Arya Samaj collect waste m a t e r i a l , a regular fund Hemlata Chandrakanta Manju raising feature New Delhi: FOD with support from its donor Ms. of FOD, was Santosh Grover helped in the weddings of three girls who's parent(s) have some kind of disability. Manju put up at Shiv d/o Kailash Chand was married on October 22 in N a g a r o n Kalyanpuri. Kailash Chand has polio in left leg. December 27 Another girl Hemlata daughter of Mahendra who has Mr. SP Gaba total vision loss was married away on November 27 in Sultanpuri. Chandrakanta's marriage daughter of resident of Shiv Fund raising stall at Shiv Nagar Sunehri Devi who is blind in one eye, was solemnised Nagar and his on December 5 in Najafgarh. family helped All the three girls are from extremely poor families. in every way in Ms. Santosh Grover provided dry ration, spices, Tricycles and wheelchair formed the bulk of gadgets organizing the cooking medium, sugar, tea leaves etc. for the that were disbursed on November 15. weddings, besides other things like clothes and small one day stall. gift items. She also arranged for gold earnings for Mandir, DAV School premises on November 15, A n o t h e r Manju one of the brides. where 24 males, 7 females, 2 male children and 1 similar stall female child received 17 tricycles, 5 business boxes, 6 was organised BOUGHT TEXT BOOKS AND hearing aids, 5 pairs of crutches, 3 folding walkers, 3 in Hari Nagar STATIONERY iPods, 1 walking stick, 2 pediatric wheelchairs, 2 w h e r e M s . FOD bought text books for adult wheelchairs. The function was very well Nirmal Kukreja two students of Delhi organized by Bharat Vikas Parishad, Tilak Nagar and Mr. BK branch with strong patronage from Mr S.S. Dhingra. University. Munshi, 25, Fund raising stall at Hari Nagar polio both lower limbs, The occasion was graced by the local counsillor A r o r a , pursuing MA (Hindi Ms Ritu Vohra and MLA Sardar Jarnail Singh along Treasurer, SBI Pensioners Association, took Hons.) from Zakir Hussain with other distinguished members from various great interest in arranging the stall on College and Suman Devi, branches of Bharat Vikas Parishad. The gadgets were November 29 at Ms. Nirmal Kukreja’s 35, post traumatic stiffness sponsored by CAF-India, Ms. Surinder Kaur, Dr Asha residence. right ankle and left knee, Suman Devi Munshi Mehta, Dr M.C. Kapoor, Mr Samyak Kapoor, Dr. studying Law (first year- IInd semester) in Faculty of Sonal Mehta, Ms Harjit Kaur, Ms Seema Mahajan, Law. Ms Indu Khosla, Ms Rajni Thakur, Ms Rajinder Kaur, NEW APPOINTEES AT UNNATI Ms Vijaya Verma, Ms Suruchi Mahajan and Ms REHAB CENTRE MOBILE REHAB CLINIC AND Poonam Bhatia. DISABILITY CAMP On 26 November, the first ever gadgets distribution at Unnati- FOD's Multipurpose-Rehab Centre at

Sijo Mathai Rajeshwari Bimla Manager Computer instructor Sanitation worker

Unnati organised Mobile Rehab Clinic at Jharoda Kalan, SNIPPETS Najafgarh, under the ageis of FOD l First ever workshop to apprise local populace of the Mobile rehabilitation clinic was organised in village facilities that will be offered by UNNATI Jharoda Kalan in Najafgarh 12 km from FOD's rehab rehabilitation centre built by FOD, was held on 16 centre Unnati on December 20. Out of 31 disabled October, Around 60 disabled persons including their people who attended the clinic, 16 were registered for carers attended the workshop where Preeti J.Basra, various gadgets, 4 for Apna Rozgaar Scheme (Self CEO, FOD, Sijo Mathai, program manager at Unnati Employment), 6 for placement in mainstream jobs. 5 apprised the gathering giving detailed information inquired for getting a disability certificate and they 5 recipients of tricycles sponsored by Hitaishi Trust at FOD's Rehab Centre UNNATI in Najafgarh, New Delhi on about the centre and its functioning. were advised accordingly. The headman of Jharoda l Kalan village Baljit Singh made necessary November 27 Speech and hearing impaired students learning arrangements and provided all logistics for the clinic. Shyam Vihar, Najafgarh, 5 beneficiaries were handed Also, FOD participated in disability camp at Rao Tula over tricycles and one person was given a pair of Ram Memorial Hospital in Jaffarpur Kalan, Najafgarh, crutches. Amongst them 4 were females, one male and organised by South West District Social Welfare one school going boy. The function was sponsored by Department, Delhi Government. 28 people were Mr. Anand Sharma of Hitaishi Trust and his family in registered under various programmes of the organisation. the memory of their mother. The function was very well organized and the Sharma family was in strong QUILTS DISBURSED attendance. The function started with the rendition of a bhajan by the women folk. Thereafter the gadgets were handed over and Mr. Sharma shared his experiences with the guests present on the occasion. FOD head office was represented by Ms. Udeetta Ms. Preeti Johar, CEO, FOD, apprising residents of Chopra, Mr. Vinay Anand and Mr. A.S. Chaddha Najafgarh of the services that UNNATI would offer to people with disabilities Recipients of quilts l “Doctor, Doctor, You've got computers at UNNATI are being also taught sign On December 10 in the park adjacent to FOD office, 15 to help me – I just can't stop language, all of them are referred from Parkash beneficiaries selected from the existing data with FOD my hands shaking!” Foundation (an NGO) in Dwarka, New Delhi. were handed over quilts arranged by Ms. Santosh l “Do you drink a lot?” Students undergoing computer training at UNNATI Grover a philanthropist and her friend Ms. Kusum “Not really- I spill most of it!” attended a lecture on personality development on 21 Sood. 4 females, 10 males and 1 male child were l December. The main speakers on the occasion were among the recipients. They also have drawn benefit A girl to the X-ray technician after swallowing some coins by mistake: “Sir, do you see any change Mr. V.K Anand, Mr. G.S. Sehgal, Mr. Sijo Mathai and under other schemes of FOD. Beneficiaries enrolled in me?” Ms. Preeti J Basra. with Unnati rehab centre were also a part of this group.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they did not stop to enjoy it. -William Feather

DDER September-December 2015 FOD FO R 4 My Wish Fulfilled Manjri Sinha ince From my childhood days in after marriage?” He Allahabad I always wished to serve replied “No, never,” Sdisabled people. Little did I know that my “Then how can I?” I wish would be fulfilled after encountering so many said. Here stood a man twists and turns. Being the only girl child among the confident and bold who four siblings I was apple of my father's eyes. We used neither needed my to spend summer vacations mostly at Nani's place in support nor sympathy Varanasi. The vacations were full of fun and but understanding. We enjoyment with my cousin sister, who was a year g o t m a r r i e d i n younger to me and was also my closest friend. Every December the same morning we children used to visit the nearby ghats of year. I shared a close river Ganga to take bath and have fun in water. Noons b o n d i n g w i t h m y were spent playing indoor games. In the evening we mother-in-law who was used to go out occasionally to Lord Shiva’s famous physically disabled and Vishwanath Temple to pay our obeisance. There used I enjoyed looking after to be many disabled people around the temple asking her. years have passed, now I walk with the help of walker for alms and I used to give away all my savings from In due course I was blessed with a daughter and a after wearing splints in both legs, which make me my piggy bank. I always wanted to do something son. I enrolled myself as bar member at Patna High partly independent. I use wheelchair when outdoors. more for them, but at that age I was just a little child Court but could not practice due to family My husband has started his own company in the and did not know much about their miseries. commitments I stayed at home attending my mother- basement of our house, the staircase is disabled When I was 18, my father got posted to Guwahati in-law. After her death in 1989 we shifted from Patna friendly and I too have open my documentation job in Assam. There I did my MA (Pol. Science) followed to Delhi, where I completed my diploma in cyber law from the basement, is doing well. My daughter after by L.L.B. My father started looking for suitable from Amity Law School. Those days my husband was completing her MBA (Finance) is working with a match for my marriage. After going through at the peak of his career, daughter was doing her multinational. She is married to a decent boy and they matrimonial columns in newspapers he found an graduation and son was studying in class 9. Family have a three-year-old son, whom we babysit. My son, appropriate young man as my soul mate. He wanted to was well settled and happy, when things took a a software engineer is working in a reputed company finalise the matter on our annual visit to our different turn. I fell sick and became paralyzed in both and he is doing fine in his career. And his wife, nice hometown Allahabad. the legs due to encephalitis and brain haemorrhage. and caring girl, works for an MNC. We are settled My father chose one gentleman, Keshav, a lawyer We exhausted almost all of our savings on my once again now. by profession – to be my groom. I was engaged to him treatment. The company, in which my husband was My husband takes great pains in keeping me in April 1980 in Patna. Our family often traveled working closed down, the only vehicle we had, a happy and comfortable and looks after my between Allahabad and Guwahati via Patna and chauffeur driven company's car was returned to the rehabilitation needs. As my disability has reduced I Keshav used to come to Patna railway station to meet company and on top of it our friend's car (which we often go around even outside Delhi & abroad using us. On one such occasion he asked for my farther's were using for our daily hospital visits) got stolen different means of travel. My long cherished wish permission to talk to me separately which was granted while being used by us. It was the darkest phase of our was to help disabled people which has been fulfilled readily. During our conversation he said “I wanted to life. My husband took complete charge of the by working for a Delhi based NGO Family of have this opportunity before the engagement, household and at the same time struggled for work Disabled and we husband-wife manage its Faridabad anyway, I wish to tell you something personal. I had outside. Children realizing the situation started taking chapter. an accident at the age of 5, and as a result I lost vision care of their bedridden mother (me) as well as helping Contact: Tel. 0129-2512037, (M) 8447471607, in my right eye permanently. Would you still like to their father in managing the house along with their e-mail : [email protected] marry me?” I thought for a while and asked him studies. It was real testing time for all of us. (As narrated to Rajinder Johar, editor Fodder) “Would you leave me if something happens to me After every night there comes a dawn. Thirteen

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Kindness is the language that deaf can hear and blind can see. -Mark Twain DDER September-December 2015 FOD FO R 5 THANK YOU DONORS FOD thanks all the donors for their thoughtful and concerned gesture enabling the organisation to move on. September - December 2015 Delhi and other places Individuals Kamleshwar Nath -New Delhi, Ms. Karuna Thakur -New Delhi, Ms. Rekha Kumar -Noida, Mr. Aayan Gulati-New Delhi, Mr. Anand Kumar Kamboj-New Delhi, Mr. Khajinder Singh Ms. Renu Bakshi -New Delhi, Ms. Rajpal Kaur - Sharma -New Delhi, Ms. Anita- New Delhi, Dr. Chadha -New Delhi, Mr. Kulbinderjeet Verma - New Delhi, Ms. Riya -New Delhi, Mr. Rajpal Asha Mehta -New Delhi, Mr. Ashwini Gupta - New Delhi, Ms. Kusum Bhatia -New Delhi, Ms. Talwar- New Delhi, Mr. Rahul Duggal- New New Delhi, Mr. Baldev Raj Sobti- New Delhi, Mr. Kushaldeep Kaur -New Delhi, Mr. K.R Sinha Delhi, Ms. Rita Malhotra- New Delhi, Ms. Rosy- Baneet-New Delhi, Ms. Bindra- New Delhi, Mr. –Faridabad, Mr. Mangu Singh -New Delhi, Mr. New Delhi, Mr. Ramesh Kacholia –Mumbai, Ms. Bharat Bhusan Mehta -New Delhi, Mr. B.K Maninder Pal Singh-New Delhi, Ms. Meera Shashi Prabha Mahajan-New Delhi, Ms. Sheela Arora -New Delhi, Mr. B N Sharma -New Delhi, Arora-New Delhi, Ms. Meera Devi -New Delhi, Malhotra-New Delhi, Mr. Surinder Khanna- Mr. Brijesh Kumar -Greater Noida, Mr. Ms. Megha Bhandari -New Delhi, Dr. Mukul New Mr. Y C Mahajan-New Delhi, Mr. Sehgal- Charanjeet Singh Anand -New Delhi, Mr. C M Chandra Kapoor -New Delhi, Mr. Manoj Kumar New Delhi, Mr. Sabharwal-New Delhi, Mr. Bhatt -New Delhi, Ms. Deepika-New Delhi, Ms. -New Delhi, Ms. Manjri Sinha –Faridabad, Mr. Sushant Tuli-New Delhi, Ms. Santosh Grover- Deepika Bhattacharya -New Delhi, Mr. Deepak Narinder Pal Singh -New Delhi, Ms. Neelu New Delhi, Capt. Wazir Chand-New Delhi, Ms. Kukreja -New Delhi, Mr. Dharmender -New Sahini -New Delhi, Ms. Nirmala Menon Kale - Sarika Jain -New Delhi, Ms. Sandhya Chugh - Delhi, Ms. Disha Chhabra -New Delhi, Ms. New Delhi, Mr. Pardeep Kumar Chopra-New New Delhi, Mr. S C Jain -New Delhi, Ms. Suman Gurleen Kaur-New Delhi, Mr. G P Abhishek - Delhi, Mr. Parvinder Singh -New Delhi, Mr. Khosla -New Delhi, Ms. Sharmishtha Sharma - New Delhi, Mr. G R Nanda -New Delhi, Mr. G S Piyush Saddi -New Delhi, Ms. Pushpa Rani -New New Delhi, Mr. Suraj Parkash Gaba -New Delhi, Mehta -New Delhi, Mr. Harjit Kaur -New Delhi, Delhi, Ms. Poonam Bhatia -New Delhi, Mr. Ms. Shashi Mahana -New Delhi, Mr. Sanjeev Mr. Harvinder Singh -New Delhi, Mr. Hitesh Pankaj Bansal -New Delhi, Mr. Prem Kumar Sharma -New Delhi, Mr. Shyam Sunder Gaba -New Delhi, Mr. HS Ahluwalya- New Puri -New Delhi, Ms. Pragya Kapoor Chadha - Dhingra -New Delhi, Mr. Samyak Kapoor -New Delhi, Mr. Inderjeet Bhatia -New Delhi, Ms. Ira New Delhi, Mr. Parth- New Delhi, Mr. P C Delhi, Mr. Sunil Seth -New Delhi, Ms. Satnam Kapoor-New Delhi, Mr. Jagir- New Delhi, Mr. Kaushik- New Delhi, Ms. Pushpa- New Delhi, Dr. Kaur -New Delhi, Ms. Saroj Garg- New Delhi, Jagbir Singh -New Delhi, Mr. Jatin Dua -New Rajeev Mehta -New Delhi, Mr. Ramesh Chandra Mr. Sunil Kaushik- New Delhi, Mr. T M Lamba - Delhi, Mr. Janak Brar -New Delhi, Ms. Jaskaran Jhalani -New Delhi, Mr. R S Bhandari -New New Delhi, Mr. Umesh Sabharwal- New Delhi, Kaur-New Delhi, Mr. Jasvinder Taran Singh- Delhi, Mr. Rochak Puri -New Delhi, Ms. Rajni Ms. Urmil Lal -New Delhi, Mr. US Sawhney - New Delhi, Mr. Jaspreet Singh Setia -New Delhi, Nanda -New Delhi, Ms. Rita Sahini -New Delhi, New Delhi, Mr. V K Anand-New Delhi, Mr. V R Mr. Jasjeet Vorha -New Delhi, Ms. Jyoti Suhani - Ms. Ravinder Kaur -New Delhi, Ms. Rajni -New Dua -New Delhi, Ms. Vijaya Verma -New Delhi New Delhi, Mr. Kamlesh Bhatia-New Delhi, Mr. Delhi, Ms. Rajinder Kaur -New Delhi, Ms. Rajni Donors from Gurgaon Gurgaon chapter of FOD is just two years old and is very alert to the needs of disabled people. Following residents and corporates of Gurgaon have enthusiastically have come forward and made donations for the welfare of people with disabilities Individuals Hemant Bhasin, Mr. Jayad Uberoi, Ms. Sanjay Narang, Ms. Sonali Garg, Mr. Sidharth, Mr. AL Malhotra, Mr. Amar Ahluwalia, Mr. Kadambari Ohri, Ms. Kasmira Jain, Ms. Leela Mr. SL Mehndiratta, Mr. SP Gupta, Mr. Amar Agarwal, Mr. Anshul Jain, Mr. Ashok Malhotra, Dr. SK Luthra, Mr. MM Arora, Mr. Surender Singh Yadav, Ms. Sucheta Garg, Ms. Batra, Maj. Avtar Singh, Ms. Charu, Mr. MR Kumar, Mr. NC Jain, Mr. Navin Chopra, Sharda Malhotra, Mr. Vinod Gupta, Mr. Vikas Dhiraj, Mr. GP Srivastava, Mr. Gagan Ubroi, Mr. PK Garg, Ms. Rachna Jain, Mr. Rakesh Gupta, Mr. Vikas Karwal, Mr. Vikas Kapoor, Mr. Gur Prasad, Mr. Harvinder Arora, Mr. Makhija, Mr. Ravi Sayal, Mr. Raghav, Mr. Mr. Vijay Malhotra Organisations Charities Aid Foundation India - New Delhi, Foundation Trust- New Delhi, Mahakali PLUS Inner Wheel Club -New Delhi, Letzchange – Charitable Trust-New Delhi, Kailash Chander Hundreds of Waste Material Donors Gurgaon, Ramkrishna Jaidayal Dalmia Anand Charitable and Educational Society - Shreevani Nyas - New Delhi, RC Malhotra New Delhi, Senior Citizen’s Club - Gurgaon - Aman Shukla, Accountant, FOD

Beyond Limits... contd. from page 1 and Mr. Sudip Roy, artists of international repute. CEO, Compare Infobase, New Delhi, have been HEALTHCARE ATTENDANT The jury found tremendously hard to select the supporting Beyond Limits unconditionally for the works which were exceptionally good and past many years and Ms. Arpana Caur has been TRAINING AND JOB IN 30 DAYS professionally done. lending her gallery free of cost to put up the In 30 days, we train illiterate and literate healthy males and females, between age 18 years and 50 years, to The chief guest on the occasion Mr. Rajiv exhibition since its inception. become good healthcare attendants and provide them Chandran, National Information Officer for India Out of 86 works exhibited 35 were sold off. Mr. * job . and Bhutan, UN Information Centre, highly Sunil Anand, CMD, Hospemedica Ltd. and Mr. ML Contact us at: appreciated the welfare programmes of FOD, Bhargava, managing trustee, Letz Dream, art Ashray Medical Centre, WHS – 2/10, Timber particularly Beyond Limits and praised the works connoisseurs are seasoned admirers and collectors Market, Kirti Nagar, New Delhi – 110 015, Phone: exhibited in Beyond Limits 2015 and the at Beyond Limits series. This year too, they were big 011 – 45579874 (Below Kotak Mahindra Bank and near Kirti Nagar Fire Station and Police Station) competitive spirit of disabled artists. He said on the buyers. occasion “UN Information Centre feels proud to be associated with FOD and would continue its support in future too”. Guest of honour Mr. Raman HEALTH BELIEVE IT OR NOT Bhatia –Managing Trustee, Rtn. Naqshband DR. ROBORT LISTON (1794-1847) CAPSULE ACCIDENTLY STABBED A NURSE Institute for the Physically Challenged and past AND SLASHED AN OBSERVER’S WILL COFFEE HELP PROTECT ME COAT-TAIL AS HE WAS governor Rotary International, played a significant FROM PARKINSON’S DISEASE? AMPUTATING A PATIENT’S LEG. role in eradication of polio in India described THE OBSERVER DIED OF FRIGHT Beyond Limits a peerless initiative. AND THE NURSE AND PATIENT WHO KNEW DIED OF GANGRENE_ THAT’S Ms. Preeti J Basra, CEO, FOD has been supervising THAT COFFEE 300% MORTALITY ON A SINGLE Beyond Limits since its inception in 2004, informed WOULD BE OPERATION! THE NEXT the audience that this year a total of 86 works were CURE-ALL? exhibited that included, paintings on paper and A MAN AT THE canvas, sculptures, collage work and etching. UNIVERSITY OF WALES AT LEAST SIX INDEPENDENT STUDIES AT BANGOR IS ABLE TO Majority of the artists participating in Beyond HAVE CONFIRMED A LINK BETWEEN COFFEE READ THE EMOTIONS Limits have bachelors or masters degree in fine arts DRINKING AND THE PREVENTION OF ON PEOPLE’S FACES, PARKINSON’S DISEASE. THE RESEARCH DESPITE BEING and this time 5 were new entrants. SHOWS THAT PEOPLE WHO DRINK COFFEE TOTALLY BLIND! Mr. Rameshbhai Kacholia, Main Coordinator, ARE LESS LIKELY TO DEVELOP PARKINSON’S DISEASE Caring Friends, Mumbai and Mr. Simarprit Singh,

A sincere, hardworking person will achieve success for himself and others. - Courtesy- Speaking Tree DDER September-December 2015 FOD FO R 6 FOD PROGRAMMES FOR THE Factually Speaking Volunteers Required WELFARE OF DISABLED PEOPLE 1. India is home to world's largest poor Who can offer their services/time for the betterment of 1 A p n a R o z g a a r S c h e m e ( s e l f population. Extreme poverty is defined as people with disabilities through welfare programmes employment): Financing launch/ living on or below $1.90 a day. of FOD. Call/email FOD office on the address given at expansion of one’s trade. -A World Bank Report the bottom of this page. 2 Gyanpath: Funding education of disabled 2. Consumption of red meat (or mammal meat) students. and processed meats like bacon, sausages, is For employing disabled people in your establishment 3 Free Gadgetry: Quarterly disbursement of carcinogenic to human beings. call FOD Ph- 41570140; 45129935 assorted gadgets. -International Agency of 4 Beyond Limits: Holding national level Research on Cancer annual exhibition of paintings/sculptures 3. 75 percent of doctors in India have suffered some form of physical violence from angry Free Counselling made by disabled artists and sculptors . attendants while on duty. Hospitals have Residents of and other places in 5 Vocational Training and Guidance: At started hiring marshals/ bouncers to counter who wish to serve disabled individuals its Rehab Centre Unnati, FOD trains the menace. In India the patient - doctor ratio persons with physical and mental is low as -1 per 1000. And disabilities in different livelihood skills -Indian Medical Association For free counselling on any emotional, interpersonal or enabling them to make products of market 4. Uncertain figure of Indian disabled family issues or getting trained as counsellor. value. population: Census 2001- 2.1% of Contact : st 6 Job Placement: Placement in main stream population; Census 2011- 2.2%, Planning Dr. Ali Khwaja, Banjara Academy, 418, 1 Main, s t jobs. commission- 5%, WHO- 8%, Experts- 10% 1 Block, RT Nagar, Bangalore 560032. -WHO Phones:23330200, 23535766. You can also look up 7 Mobile Rehab Clinics: Conducted in 5. According to estimates, there are over three website: www.banjaraacademy.org resettlement, JJ colonies and slums. crore stray dogs on Indian streets. In Delhi, 8 Counselling : Given to disabled persons this number is about five lakh and about 300 and their carers. dog bite cases are reported every day. 9 Leisure: Organising excursions, Estimated 20,000 deaths occur per year due MASSAGE educational tours and entertaining shows. to rabies in India Services of Niranjan, a visually impaired masseur Publication : A four-monthly newsletter -National Rabies Control Programme trained at VLCC and Shahnaz Institute, can be FODDER available free of cost 6. In India dyslexia affects nearly 35 million children. The incidence of dyslexia among summoned at your residence, call Niranjan on - For more details contact FOD school going children worldwide is 5% to 9891741331. office in Janakpuri 20%; in India it is estimated to be about 15%. - National Brain Research Training 7. Skilled population in India stands at just 3.5 per cent of the workforce as compared to 55 Miss Wheelchair 2015 per cent for the US, 68 per cent for the UK, 80 B percent for Japan and 96 percent for south CYCLE Korea. -Skill Development & Bindra Cycle Company Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India (of Rawalpindi) 8. Delhi University's quota of 1,600 seats for persons with disabilities has never been filled. The situation is similar in Jawaharlal Nehru University despite the campus being barrier- free. -An Audit Report 2015 9. Over 1 billion people globally suffer from disability-the world's largest minority fifty percent of them can't afford healthcare; equal percentage of them are most likely to suffer catastrophic health expenditure that forces them into penury 10. 360 million people globally have moderate to profound hearing loss 11. 70 million people need wheelchairs, but only 5-15% have access to one 12. Breastfeeding newborns for six months after birth is one of the foolproof methods to save lives, yet less than half of the 26 million babies born in India each year are exclusively breastfed during this critical period. Manufacturers of : Hand Driven Tricycles 13. India ranks 129 on the Child Development Priya Bhargava of Noida was crowned Miss Index. Children under the age of two continue for disabled people, motorised self start to remain unvaccinated adding up to 13 Wheelchair India 2015 in pageant organised in Tricycles with Bajaj, Chetak, LML engines, million unimmunized children susceptible to Bengaluru on December 5. Priya became deadly diseases. Wheelchairs, crutches and other utility paraplegic at the age of 19 due to Systemic Lupus items for disabled people. Erythmatosus, a rare incurable autoimmune l disease which damaged her spinal cord. There “It's no good, sir,” the hopeless pupil after she did her BCA and MCA from Indira APPROVED BY DELHI STATE GOVERNMENT t o l d h i s E n g l i s h Gandhi National Open University and topped in teacher. “I try to NOIDA regional centre. She likes painting, crafts, learn, but everything blogging, writing poems. Her craftworks were you say goes in both marketed by Family of Disabled for a while. ears and out the Pageant Miss Wheelchair India was started by other.” “Goes in both ears and out the other?” asked Sounak Banerjee who himself is a wheelchair the puzzled teacher, bound person having muscular dystrophy. “But you only have two ears.” “You see, sir, I'm no good at math, either!” FAMILY OF DISABLED A voluntary organisation committed to the cause of people with disabilities Regd. Off. : B-1/500, Janakpuri, New Delhi-110058 Tel: 91-11- 41570140, 45129935 Gurgaon Chapter – GR Malhotra, Coordinator – 0124-2570436; Faridabad Chapter – KR Sinha, Coordinator – 0129 - 2512037 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.familyofdisabled.org Editor - Rajinder Johar Assistant Editor - Preeti Johar, Members - Udeetta Chopra, Arpita Ghosh, Komal Verma Printed at : Graphic Syndicate, A-2/209, Janakpuri, New Delhi - 110058, Phone : 011-32968355

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