Projects

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.

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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 .

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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.

The Motto of Persons with Disabilities :
Nothing  about Us without US

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.

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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.

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