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. […]
Born on a Mountainside. Building a Movement
Moy Moy was born on the side of a road in the Indian Himalayas. Twelve weeks premature, she weighed just under a kilo. Underweight preemies are at high risk for having a disability, and the couple who adopted Moy Moy two weeks later weren’t surprised when she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. What did surprise […]
A Thousand Small Acts of Belief (in Blue Shoes)
Our beautiful fundraising campaign to construct the first totally inclusive, universal design campus for disabled kids in India is achieving so much more than just raising money. A few days ago, something almost miraculous happened on the Give India platform where we’re running the fundraiser. The campaign was ticking along quite nicely with donations coming […]
“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 […]
Art Therapy for Parents at the CVT
Sharmi Guha, art therapist, and aunt of our trainee Sayan Choudhary conducted an art therapy workshop for a compact group of eight parents from our Center for Vocational Training (CVT) on April 12. Sharmi’s forte lies in helping children and adults cope with difficult emotions using art as a release. The first half of the […]