Sri Gopikrishna Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd ‘s CSR aims at supporting need based intervention in health, education, skill development, and livelihoods for the persons with disabilities with a priority of community screening for the early identification of disabilities and provide early intervention to mitigate the handicap and support training and research to promote an inclusive society. SGIPL has resolved to take up CSR initiative to empower the persons with disabilities and their family members with comprehensive rehabilitation on sustainable manner through supporting the credible NGOs in the year 2016. In 2017, SGIPL has identified an NGO , MANASA (Kothapet, Hyderabad-www.manasainstitute.org) working in this field by running a special school for the mentally challenged from the past over 2 decades and seeking support to reach the unreached.
Upon the pursuance of MANASA for support, the SGIPL has provided financial support and management acumen to develop result oriented sustainable programs at MANASA through a project called MANASA VIKAASA GAMYAM-2022 ( MVG-2022); through which over 5000 persons with disabilities and their families got benefitted and continuing the reach with delivery of various need based services to the children and persons with disabilities besides having ripple effect towards inclusive society through training and research activities.
MVG (MANASA VIKAASA GAMYAM) -2022:
- Clinical Services: 100% FREE Child Health, and Rehabilitation services like Nutrition, Gen Health, Eye care, Physiotherapy, Speech therapy, Behaviour therapy, Early Intervention therapy etc. at Manasa Institute for the children with disabilities. Regularly 30- 50 special children avail these services during all the working days. Now the delivery of services is continuing despite the Covid by taking all the precautions without any interruption.
- Community Based Health and Rehabilitation Services: our teams of professionals
reach out the unreached to take up community screening and early identification of
children with disabilities to facilitate early intervention services further with proper
counselling and guidance. - Special School for the Specially Challenged: SGIPL has extended management support to the school, where in, fully equipped special education services are provided with goal oriented IEP in place. Due to the Pandemic situation, online special education has been started and along with the offline, this has been continuing for those who opted for it. Every year over 100 beneficiaries are getting special education services.
- Vocational training unit for the youth with Intellectual disabilities: Training 20 youth with disabilities for each batch and connecting suitable job opportunities to the extent possible. Over a dozen youngsters with disabilities got connected to livelihoods.
- Training and Research: Training and capacity development of grass root level health workers, ASHAs, ANMs, in-service DOCTORS and ICDS TEACHERS, RIGHTS ADVOCATES, SOCIAL ACTIVISTS, other HEALTH & REHAB PROFESSIONALS etc. The institute has been also taking up contextual research on child health & disability. Due to Pandemic, we have been conducting online training programs through WEBINARS more frequently than earlier. Over 2500 change makers got trained so far and two research programs have been taken up.
SGIPL has also undertaken various development schemes at Bhimavaram – Andhra Pradesh by providing comprehensive health, rehabilitation and special education services to ‘Children with disabilities living in vulnerable conditions’ and supports their families. Presently through Neurodevelopmental Clinic, Special School, Vocational Training Centre, Community Based Rehabilitation Services the organisation is serving over 2000 special children a year. 90% of the parents of these children are slum dwellers engaged in physical labour or street hacking or in construction work etc. Over 5 % of them have single parents (only mothers). 2-3% of them have siblings also suffering from similar disability wherein the parents’ lives are miserable.