An NGO (Non  Governmental Organisation) started  In 1981  in New Delhi  with the specific aim of  working with  children with mental retardation and their families. 

LOCATION:  New Delhi.

Families living in conditions of poverty with children who are mentally handicapped  or at risk of becoming developmentally delayed if intervention strategies are not easily available.  Our concern are those families  living  in areas of deprivation such as  slums or  Camps where migrants from other States find living quarters  or  Resettlement  Colonies,  where slum dwellers have been  “ resettled“  in either land or housing provided by the Government.

WHY THIS FOCUS??                                                                                

Families  migrate  from villages  in search of employment or a better life style. But in big cities like Delhi , they often find their problems aggravated rather than solved particularly if they left their villages in search of support and help for a child with disability or  mental  handicap.

Forced to live in low quality housing , in  unsanitary and unhygienic  conditions and often with little or no civic amenities, these families soon fall prey to all the environmental hazards of life in a big city . 

A vicious cycle is started which keeps them in a never ending perpetual  bind.   Some of  the  men have  basic  schooling  but most of  the women are  illiterate. So, with no education,  job opportunities are  extremely bleak .  This leads to less money available for food, leading to ill health and malnutrition which again impacts on their capacity to seek and hold down a job. 

THE TRAGEDY IS THAT  POVERTY IMPACTS ON THE  INFANT , THE YOUNG CHILD AND THE WOMAN  MOST. IF THE CHILD IS MENTALLY HANDICAPPED  IT IS LAST ON THE LIST OF PRIORITIES.  

THE CYCLE OF PERPETUAL BONDAGE