Swabalambi Building CBR as a Brand
1.Title of the Project : Empowerment and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities Through CBR Programme in Dimoria Block , Kamrup District (Metro) Chayani Block of Kamrup District (Rural) in Assam
Description of the Organization
Swabalambi is a Community Based Organization working for Inclusion and Mainstreaming of Persons with Disabilities in the rural areas of Dimoria Block, Kamrup District (Metro), Assam. Since its inception in 1997 Swabalambi has been working closely with rural community which includes ST, SC,and OBC population, 80% of which are BPL families..
Vision
To build a society whose priority is to focus on gender and disability, a society where persons with disability enjoy equal Human Right, become decision makers and contributors to community welfare.
Mission
Working with the families belonging to SC, ST, OBC and BPL to facilitate sharing in bringing about a change which will be mutually beneficial to families with disabled members and others and sustain the Inclusive Development process at the community.
Swabalambi has won the DM-India Award World Bank 2014 . World Bank is funding the Capacity Building of the Organization to gain professionalism to scale up the CBR Model . The project is for training of 14 Swabalambi Team members and staff for 02 years. Under this project the Disabled Peoples Organizations (DPOs) at the village , Panchayat and Block level are trained the conduct the Socio-Economic survey of Dimoria Block with survey and reporting in the Mobile Phones and feeding into computers on Daily basis. The World Bank Consultant M’ForeSolutions Private Limited, Finland has capacitated 20 DPO Members and empowered them with the technical skill in the rural areas for the first time in Assam . This data base will facilitate Swabalambi to apply for Inclusive Project in future . The Persons with Disabilities are now able to do Situational Analysis and conduct Focus Group Discussion and Interviews at the community/grass root .
Swabalambi is a pioneer CBR Practitioner in Assam since 2005 and has touched the lives of more than 1500 Persons with Disabilities(PWDs) in the rural areas of the two districts. Inclusion of PWDs in the CBR Matrix of Health, Education, Livelihood, Social, and Empowerment with the Rights Based approach is the mission of Swabalambi.02 Project of CBR is funded by Collective Action for Basic Rights Foundation (CBRF) / Light for the World , Austria.
Training of PWDs and stakeholders for sustenance CBR. Outcome is skill development in Inclusive Education , Health , Livelihood and Social Inclusion in Sports/Special Olympics . The DPO leaders have
become Resource on Disability and Health at the rural community which is now dependent on PWD Leaders.
Swabalambi has established Partnership with the Government for Livelihood and Inclusive Health Projects.
Since 2002 Swabalambi has availed Projects from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment , Ministry of Textile , Ministry of Science and Technology , Ministry of Labor, National Health Mission and Department of Social Welfare and Department of Health Services, Government of Assam for Livelihood and Inclusive Health Programs . Indian Oil Corporation ( Guwahati Refinery ) and Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. and ASTEC (Assam Science and Technology ) has supported Swabalambi in reasonable accommodation for PWDs in Kamrup District, Assam .
Swabalambi is the Nodal Agency of the Government of Assam for issue of Disability Certificate to the Persons with Disability in the Kamrup District , both Metro and Rural in partnership with the Department of Health Service and Department of Social Welfare. Assam. It has facilitated Disability Certificates to more than 2000 PWDs since2013.
The first step to joining our family of volunteers is to fill out the form below. Once this form is submitted we will contact you to complete the volunteer process.
Near Forest Range Office, Vill.Mohmara Road, Sonapur-780402, Dimoria Block, Kamrup (M) District, Assam
9864306192/94351 90397
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