Fr
Ga/i Arulraj, the Director
of the centres, with some of
the children
in his care.
In
India many disabled children live in poverty, receive no medical care,
have no opportunity of going to school, and face the bleak prospect of
a lifetime of begging. With your help, however, we can enable these
children to enjoy their childhood and have a chance in life.
Enable
(Working in India) was set up in 1995 to support a centre for disabled
children in the small town of Kanigiri, Andhra Pradesh State, South
India. This centre was set up by a priest, Fr Gali Arulraj, after he
discovered that disabled children were neglected in some of India’s
poorest villages.
Some
of these children are rejected simply because they live in a society
which views disability as a curse. And because of poverty their
parents have no means of helping the children.
Fr Arulraj’s work at the Kanigiri Centre which
is being developed at other centres set up for disabled children,
shows how much can be done for the children. We want to give hope to
all those disabled children who need our help. |
The
children come from extremely poor and remote villages. Because they
are physically disabled and often cannot walk at all they are left in
their homes all day while their parents go out to work in the fields.
The extreme poverty of their small communities means that their needs
cannot be met in their villages. The construction of purpose-built
centres close to their villages has been found to be the best way to
help them.
The
children live at the centres during term-time
where we enable them to:
--- receive full medical care, including surgical
operations (which can make the
difference
between crawling and walking) and
daily
physiotherapy.
--- attend school for the first time in their life
--- have good nutritious food and new clothes.
--- train in local skills to help them gain future
employment.
--- receive extra tuition to help them pass the
exams which may lead to a college or
university
education and a good career
Suresh — eager to learn at
school |
