"From three to a million lives,” is how Mithu Alur describes the long journey of the NGO ADAPT, formerly called the Spastic Society of India (SSI), on Friday evening. In the absence of institutional support, it is NGOs like SSI that have become crucial to cater to kids with special needs. “In the six years I was in England, I worked hard to get a diploma as a special educator so that I could take proper care of Malini,” she said. It was renamed to Postgraduate Diploma in Special Education [Multiple Disabilities: Physical and Neurological] in 2003. “I have tried to light as many lamps as possible so that special children can be part of the society and not be treated as outsiders.

Source: dna December 04, 2016 02:48 UTC