Asha Ka Jharna

OUR IMPACT & ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR • Regular ongoing special education, training and therapeutics services to more than 220 special need children and their families every year since 1997. More than 5000 children with disabilities have been regularly served by us. • Project Saajhi Udaan attempting Inclusive education. More than 50 children with disabilities got access to regular education in Government schools at where our educators have been providing remedial teaching support & handholding schools. • Accessibility and Inclusion made possible to more than 1000 beneficiaries through disability certificates, assistive devices, aids & appliances, polio corrective surgeries. • Free distribution of high quality behind the ear hearing aids to 669 children across the surrounding region with support from Starkey Hearing Foundation. • Community counselling services to more than 5000 persons. • Massive school/college awareness programmes on disability in the Shekhawati area. 50000 school students and teachers covered. • Formal Training courses in association with Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi delivered to 360 Govt teachers and 80 parents. • ‘District Games for Disabled’ Conducted at Sikar under the scheme of Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs (232 Special Needs Athletes participated) • ‘District Games for Disabled’ Conducted at Jhunjhunu under the scheme of Deptt. of Social Justice, Govt of Raj (400 Special Athletes participated) • ‘Regional Parents Meet’ by NIMH & PARIVAAR organized at Jhunjhunu. (112 Parents from Rajasthan and Gujarat participated) • ‘Regional Parents Meets’ Facilitated by us completely at Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur & Sawai Madhopur as well as National Parents Meet & Self Advocates National Convention at Udaipur (More than 1000 Parents & 300 Self Advocates Across the country benefitted) • Community sensitization events at different places (> 50000 targeted) • Special needs children taken to Special Olympics, Abylampics, excursions, adventure expeditions, fairs etc. to various places all over India. Around 1000 children have explored Darjeeling, Dalhousie, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Delhi, Jaipur and many towns across the country. • 398 Nos. of special needs children passed School Board levels A, B and C (equivalent to class 8th) from National Institute of Open Schooling so far. • More than one hundred young adults with hearing impairment have pursued higher education up to graduation studying in inclusive setup facilitated by us. • More than one hundred youth with disabilities placed successfully in gainful employment through our handholding, mentoring and livelihood support. • Our children have participated and won laurels in Special Olympics National Level Athletics & Volleyball Events. They have also shown skills in Abylampics. CHILDLINE SIKAR ACHIEVEMENTS : AKJ has been a collaborative partner for eight years managing CHILDLINE (1098) - Nationwide Toll-Free Helpline for children in distress providing round the clock emergency outreach services at our Sikar center. From inception since July 2015 till handing over of the project to Government of Rajasthan on 7th October 2023, we reached out to 3821 children & their families in need of care and protection vide a whole range of intervention services. During this period around 13000 calls were received on our Helpline No 1098