Happy birthday Sakshum
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Sakshum is 1 :)
A ‘Birthday’ is just the first day of another 365-day journey to achieve a new destination. Enjoy the trip!!!
When a child is born he is helpless. Neither he can walk nor can he talk. He is totally in a new world of love, surprises, failure, success, achievements and appreciation. As he grows he achieves his milestones with great effort, practice and help. By the age of 1, he can express, can make his presence loud and struggles to achieve further milestones. During this first year he lays a foundation for his entire life and this progress makes his first birthday special.
“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis”
Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) in Hindi means “being capable. With the idea of bringing a change in life of people with special needs, a year back Sakshum was born.”. It was a new world for all of us. Fortunately, we had a team of 5 members who were dedicated and still working for Sakshum. Initially, it was hard for us to streamline ourselves as we wanted to achieve things fast. We were unorganised. But, pursuance helped us to move ahead. Few professionals, mentors and CSIM streamlined our ideas and helped to turn in action.
Today after a year, Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) has achieved few milestones. Sakshum is running 4 active projects and 1 is under pipeline. 4 projects are:
- Eye care I care: this project focuses on screening school children with vision problems and creating awareness about healthy vision. The screened children with vision problems are provided with spectacles and required treatment. In past 3 months 522 children are being screened in various schools and 59 children are being provided with treatment.
- Eye Donation Awareness: In association with EBAI (Eye Bank Association of India) Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) is promoting eye donation to reduce the corneal blindness. Till now 250 people have pledge for their eyes. You can pledge your eyes here
- Sponsor a child education: Sakshum continues to support the children who can’t study because of poor financial background. Sakshum is sponsoring 3 children education. You can sponsor a child here
- Creating awareness about prevention of disability among children: Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) actively participates in creating awareness in govt hospital and community during prenatal screening. Sakshum volunteers conduct lectures for parents who have children with special needs for parenting tips. Sakshum maintains a blog(http://sakshum.blogspot.com) and forum(http://forums.sakshum.in) which shares information about disability, and various other treatments available.
Other project is to establish a holistic, Trans-disciplinary and specialised centre for children with special needs and “At risk”. Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) envisions enabling every child with special needs to develop to his full potential. This project is still in pipeline.
On the sakshum 1st birthday volunteers are planning to plant 50 trees in a school campus which is a gift for our young generation. Plantation will be done with the children to inculcate the habit of plantation and healthy environment. Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) efforts have been appreciated by many people whose lives are changed with the help of sakshum.
Sakshum(http://www.sakshum.com) wants to extend this opportunity to thank all the volunteers and other subscribers and appreciators whose sincere efforts could bring a change for the better world.
Posted byNeeti at 9:00 PM
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