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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 Delhi-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 India 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. READ AND RELAY THE PUBLICATION DDER September-December 2015 FOD FO R 2 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.