Shishu Sarothi Celebrates Its 32nd Foundation Day

GUWAHATI: Shishu Sarothi celebrated its 32nd Foundation Day on May 1, 2019. Established in 1987 in a one room set up with two children, it has grown over the years into a leading regional organisation. “We have worked unceasingly in North East India to flag the issue of disability that has been almost invisible in context of other pressing socio economic and political issues surrounding the conscience of the people of the region.

Over the past three decades, we have been working to enable and empower children and persons with disabilities even as we continue to combat challenges of inaccessibility, exclusion and stigma.

With the ratification of UNCRPD by India in 2007 and the enactment of RPWD Act 2016, a whole new paradigm has opened up those changes the discourse from charity and welfare to rights and entitlements. This has significantly altered the trajectory of our work with new activities around the provisions of the RPWD Act. Ensuring the rights of persons with disability is now of utmost importance for us and this is reflected in our work that has also evolved into a twin track approach, with provision of need based services on the one hand and pushing for rights and generic inclusion strategies on the other.

Shishu Sarothi is dedicated to upholding the inherent dignity and autonomy of children and persons with disabilities throughits early intervention services for young children with disabilities, promotion of inclusive education, awareness and advocacy of rights and carrying out evidence-based research in North East India. We are celebrating our story and our work, on this 32ndFoundation Day with the spirit of inclusion, by opening our premises to all our friends, well-wishers, officials, donors, parents, children, curious onlookers and neighbours, to join us in a host of fun activities and games, performances by the children, parents and staff of Shishu Sarothi”, a press release stated.

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