Indian Navy Organizes a Training Program on Early Intervention
The Indian Navy Welfare and Wellness Association, New Delhi, organized a training program from January 29—31 for teams from its Early Intervention Centers (EICs), still in their infancy, across the country. The Navy currently has five EICs, with 964 registered children. Our Executive Director, Jo McGowan Chopra, was invited to share her experiences founding and […]
Surjeet and Archana Qualify as CDAs
At Latika, our incredibly dedicated staff are at the heart of all our operations. We take pride in their enduring investment in our organization and commit to their ongoing success by empowering them to take on increasingly challenging tasks through continuous development in a culture of learning. Surjeet Negi, a member of our support staff, […]
Accessible Bathrooms: More Complicated Than You Think
We’ve begun planning the bathrooms. It’s complex! Just a few of the questions we need to answer: Separate options for men and women or unisex? How many fully accessible toilets on each floor, bearing in mind they are much larger than normal loos? How many changing places do we need and where should they be […]
Training for Physiotherapy Students from Local Institutes
The WHO estimates that about 2.4 billion people worldwide live with a health condition that can benefit from rehabilitation, a process that helps people whose ability to be independent in their day-to-day activities is compromised due to illness, disease, surgery, disability or just old age. Despite the critical need for rehab services, such as physiotherapy, […]
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 […]