My Experience at the Assistant Teacher Training Course
Hi, I am Vandita Uniyal. I am a student of M.A [Hindi} from D.A.V. College. I am doing a part time job as a cooking instructor in Latika Vihar. Latika Vihar is a one of the great project of Latika Roy foundation. One day while reading the local newspaper I got to know about the […]
Going Shopping
Imagine if someone told you that you couldn’t go to college, that nobody would employ you because you didn’t have the skills for the workplace and that even if you were willing, all doors were shut to you for further training? Well for thousands of young adults in India with disabilities, this is the reality. […]
Khushi : A Paradise for Children
As a foundation working for people with disabilities we realize the importance of early intervention. We know that early intervention services can quell parents’ anxiety and most importantly they can enhance a child’s educational and developmental growth making him more self reliant. This is a reason why several years ago we started the Early Intervention […]
Sexuality and Intellectual Disability
This is the first in a series of articles examining the role of sexuality in the lives of young people with disability, particularly those with intellectual disability. Parents the world over are uneasy about sex education and their children. It’s an area many of us already feel uncomfortable with in our own lives, especially given […]
Latika Vihar – Where Children Rule
Excited voices, dancing feet and smiling faces is what will greet you when you enter the tiny white gate of Latika Vihar in Vasant Vihar. Latika Vihar is an after school activity centre for children, it is a haven in a world where children are forced to grow up, where parental pressure to excel in […]
Disability and the Right to Vote in Uttarakhand
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men from other men. People with disabilities can and do VOTE. And their votes COUNT. Following a Supreme Court order in October 2004, the Election Commission had promised easy access to booths, and […]
The Lonely Crowd
Often, all it takes is a smile to bring people out of their shells of sorrow and grief… A few days ago, I read this tiny news item in our local paper: “Cafe Manager Kills Self”. A 23-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his home in Malviya Nagar. […]
Seven Bricks on a Little Girl
Shanno was murdered by her own teacher in a school in Delhi in 2011. Unable to answer a teacher’s question, she was forced to squat, doubled over, in the hot sun while the teacher piled seven bricks on her small back. She collapsed finally and died in hospital that evening. An essay by Dr Sebastian […]
Room at the Inn
It took a homecoming 28 years ago to realise that the spirit in which a gift is given is more important than the gift itself. That spirit is very much alive today in India… I grew up in America where “no room at the inn” is a common phrase to describe any situation where a […]
Adoption – More Complicated than we Think
I have always been a strong advocate of adoption. It is a family tradition: my parents adopted my sister, my husband and I adopted our youngest, my sister and her husband adopted their little girl and my brother-in-law and his wife adopted both their children. There was a time when I thought of starting an […]