Allergan Healthcare India Sponsors Developmental Devices

Mr. R. Raghu Kumar – Managing Director and Mr. K T Rajan, Director, Operations, Infor Services, Projects & Neurosciences India & South Asia from Allergan Healthcare India visited Mobility India on 1st April, 2016 for distributing developmental devices for children with disabilities. They have sponsored various developmental devices for 25 children from the community projects of Mobility India.

Mr. Raghu Kumar mentioned “we have been impressed with the excellent and focused work that all of you here are doing. Great work!!! And wish you all success!

On his feedback Mr. Rajan mentioned “Highly pragmatic infrastructure, passionate leadership team along with dedicated staff. Glad to be associated with Mobility India. God bless the great work”.

DigiCaptions Sponsors Assistive Devices and Wheelchairs

The journey of thousand miles begins with a step taken forward. The holistic development of society at a large, begins with the empowerment of each and every individual in the community, irrespective of their functional status.

DigiCaptions, one of the corporate organization from Bangalore joined hands with Mobility India to ensure people with disabilities have access to appropriate assistive devices. The organization sponsored 75 assistive devices and wheelchairs for the people and children with disabilities from the three project areas of Mobility India. The assistive devices were delivered to the service users during fitment program organised at LR Nagar on 21st March, at GG Halli on 24th March and on 29th and 31st at Mobility India. The personnel from DigiCaptions participated in every delivery and interacted with the service users to understand how these assistive devices will play a role towards transforming their lives. 

International Women’s Day Celebration

International Women’s Day is about recognizing the achievements of women, appreciating the progress made towards equality, but most importantly, it’s about highlighting how far we still have to go to rid our society of deep-rooted inequality.

On 19th March, 2016 a celebration took place at Mobility India as a part of the National Volunteering initiative from Accenture. It was an action-packed afternoon for 53 volunteers from Accenture and staff, students and community members from Mobility India. Few participants expressed their role being a woman in their family, at work and on a larger perspective in the society.

The cultural celebrations commenced with couple of songs rendered by one of the service user from Mobility India. He was the perfect exemplary exhibiting ‘age does not deter one’s spirit and rhythm’. The fun games organized with the balloons kept the audience engaged. The objective of the celebrations was realized with all the participants enjoying the event to its fullest. The celebrations concluded with vote of thanks and gift distributions. 

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Mobility India’s Rehabilitation Services Reaching to the Rural Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh

A fitment camp was conducted from 7^th to 10^th March, 2016 at Kurnool for the people and children with disabilities. The camp was conducted in collaboration with Marinilayam Social Service Society (MNSSS), Kurnool, one of the partner organisations of MI since 2006. MNSSS is a social service and charitable society which caters to the rehabilitation need of the people and children with disabilities from the rural villages of Kurnool.

The camp has been led by the technical team and students from MI as well as the team from MNSSS. Working in the less resourced settings, geographically and linguistically different region was a huge learning for the students from MI.

One of the staff at MNSSS Sister Maria Rani mentioned “in Kurnool, the number of children with Cerebral Palsy is more, mostly due to related marriage of parents. Amputee count is also on a rise due to road accidents happening quite often”. All these contributes towards exclusion of children and people with disabilities from the mainstream society. Children end up staying at home with functional limitations and adults lose opportunity to earn and support their domestic needs.

To cater to the need, MI has been involved in provision of assistive devices on a periodic basis. Around 34 people benefitted through this camp, of them 7 children received various developmental devices such as corner seat, standing frame and special chair. Rest has received Prosthetic and Orthotic devices according to their need.

The service users were fitted with the devices, trained on its usage and their family members and care givers were also oriented. The program was successful with positive feedback from the service users. 

Health Check-Up Camp Organised at Garden reach, Kolkata on the Occasion of International Women’s Day

MIRRC through community outreach program reaches to 9 wards of urban slums of Garden reach which are thickly populated wards. Overall health conditions of the people of these slums are very pathetic due to poverty, illiteracy, ignorance and lack of services. All these conditions have led the people to have poor health, especially women and children are the most deprived ones of proper health.

On the occasion of International Women’s day (8^th March, 2016) a health check-up was organized. Dr. Sarbani Banerjee, Gynaecologist was invited for medical check-up. Total 24 women with disabilities and their caretakers benefitted from the program. Among them 3 women were suspected by doctor for cervical cancer, they are suggested to go for pathological tests. Some of the health issues predominantly found among the young girls and women were obesity, menstrual hygiene and lack post natal care. Regular consumption of anti-epileptic medicines by girls too has been leading to various health issues. Dr. Sarbani Banerjee suggested all the participants to maintain hygiene, drink plenty of water, exercise daily and to consume vegetables in order to lead a healthy life. 

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ACCENTURE TEAM: GIFTING SMILES TO UNDERPRIVILEGED STUDENTS

It was an eventful afternoon on 27^th February, with the Accenture personnel visiting Mobility India. The visit presented a great opportunity to orient them about the activities carried out by Mobility India, especially on the education component.

The team interacted with 25 children from Mobility India’s community projects, to get more insight on how the educational initiatives are impacting these students’ lives, who otherwise would have never got a chance to attain education.

The students beamed with joy while receiving the in-kind gifts and the much needed school essentials. The satisfaction which came through the contribution was also substantially visible on the faces of the Accenture team. 

COGNIZANT FOUNDATION SPONSORED EQUIPMENT TO MOBILITY INDIA

Cognizant Foundation sponsored various equipment and machineries to augment the capacity of Prosthetic & Orthotic workshop at Mobility India.

It was an opportune moment for Mobility India, to have Mr. Kalyan Mohan, Executive-Vice President, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Mr. Jayatirtha Rao for the inaugural ceremony of the equipment. The technical team briefed about each and every equipment, how it will be helpful for the rehabilitation services rendered by Mobility India.

In his feedback, Mr. Kalyan Mohan cited “Truly outstanding work. Amazed with the passion of the people. I wish you all the very best in all truly amazing endeavours”. 

WHEELCHAIR SERVICE & TRAINING DELIVERY WORKSHOP AT JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN

Mahatma Gandhi Occupational Therapy College and Rajasthan Association of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists in collaboration with Mobility India organised the workshop. The 4 credit hours of training was planned with theoretical as well as practical illustrations to benefit the participants the most.

The workshop turned out to be a huge success, with 198 participants form various domains of General Medicine, Nursing, Physio & Occupational Therapy as well as Prosthetics & Orthotics.

Ms. Nirmala Danu, Occupational Therapist and Mr. G Sudhakar, Physiotherapist from Mobility India were the master trainers for the workshop.

Ms. Sneha Bhola, Occupational Therapist from Jaipur was a co-trainer during the practical sessions. She was a participant in the Wheelchair Service Training Package-Basic Level organised during 8^th-13^th February, 2016 at Mobility India. She is the perfect exemplary of putting the learnings to implementation as well as disseminating the same. 

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