Building Code Fundas: It’s All In The Detail
I have this weird power to see, even without measuring, when things are not absolutely straight or perfectly symmetrical. A crooked picture on a wall leaps out at me, as if crying for help and I feel compelled to respond, to straighten pictures in other people’s homes, and in banks, hotels and doctors’ offices too. […]
It’s Not All Bricks and Mortar
While the continued activity at our building site is the exciting part that everyone is eager to see (we can hardly keep ourselves away – it’s so tempting to keep running down there to check on the progress), there’s an awful lot more to creating a building than rigging girders and constructing walls. Back at […]
Dr Anand Kumar Presents Red Balloon: The 5th Moy Moy Memorial Lecture
The annual Moy Moy Memorial Lecture honors the memory of Moy Moy Chopra-McGowan, the inspiration for our pioneering work in disability. We celebrate her life and pay tribute to the incredible force for good she was by reflecting on new ways to move toward the better world we are committed to creating. The series is […]
A Different Kind of Sunday with Cushman & Wakefield
3 December – World Disability Day – is a huge day for us because it’s that one day a year the world dedicates to thinking and talking about what we’ve made our life’s purpose: disability rights and the wellbeing of disabled children and their families. This year, it was made extra special by the presence […]
Six Degrees of Separation: Arshad Returns Home After Six Months
A few months ago, five-year-old Arshad left his home in Muzaffarnagar to visit his Dadi, carrying nothing with him but the eagerness and impulsiveness of his years. Not once did it cross his mind that Dadi lived all the way in Dehradun, much further than his little legs could possibly carry him. On 8 May, […]
The Building Takes Shape
A bunch of us celebrated World Disability Day this year by visiting our construction site. We didn’t exactly get our hands dirty, but standing there on a piece of land that seemed to stretch for acres, with a view of the Himalayas in the distance, walls going up before our eyes and decisions being […]
Say Our (New) Name: LATIKA
Our new identity – Latika – was revealed to our community at two jam-packed events on 21 August. The morning event – one of our proudest, most emotional, ever – took place at a jampacked ICFRE Auditorium at the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. With performances by our children and trainees, the show was attended by […]
Consultation on Inclusion in the North Region
On May 19, 2023, a consultation on disability inclusion in the North Region was hosted by the National Centre for Promotion of Employment of Disabled People (NCPEDP), Latika Roy Foundation (LRF), and Disability Rights Advocacy Group (DRAG). Attendees included NGOs, disabled people’s organizations, disability rights professionals, state commissioners for the disabled and other government representatives. […]
“An Ethos of Acceptance, No Matter What”
With doctors’ waiting rooms across the country packed, often with very ill children, pediatricians usually have neither the time nor the specialized training to conduct developmental assessments. Disabled children suffer needlessly from preventable diseases and deficiencies in addition to the problems associated with their disability. Our experience from back when we had full-time doctors on […]
CFHI Interns at LRF
Zhilian Huang, a research associate in Population Health Epidemiology at Singapore University; Sixtus Akinlosotu, an undergrad at Drexel University College of Medicine; and Daniel Szabo, a graduate student of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center, were with us over April 17–18 as part of a program organized by Child Family Health […]