The Association of People with Disability, 6th Cross, Hutchins Road (Off Hennur Main Rd), Lingarajapuram, St. Thomas Town Post,

Bangalore 560 084, INDIA. Phone: +91 (080) 2547 5861 Email: contact@apd-india.org www.apd-india.org

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ANNUAL REPORT 2011/12

AUDITORS REPORT TO THE MEMBES OF THE ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY: BANGALORE

Audit Report under Section 12A (b) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, in the case of charitable or religious trusts or institutions

1. We have examined the Balance Sheet of THE ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY (name of the trust or institution), and the Income & Expenditure Account for the year ended as at 31.03.2012 which are in agreement with the Books of Account maintained by the said trust or institution.

2. (A) We further Report:

i) These financial statements are the responsibility of the above trust/institution. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

ii) We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement . An audit includes examining on a test basis , evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements . An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by above trust/institution, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

B. Subject to 2(A) above:

i) We have obtained all the information and explanations, which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purpose of the Audit.

ii) In our opinion proper Books of Accounts have been kept by the above named trust/institution so far appears from our examinations of the books.

iii) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the said accounts read with the ‘Notes’ forming part of report and notes relating to Significant Accounting Policies give a true and fair view, in conformity with the Accounting Principles generally accepted in India :

a) In the case of Balance Sheet , of the state of affairs of the above named trust/institutions as at March 31, 2012 and

b) In the case of Income & Expenditure Account , of the Excess of Income over Expenditure of its accounting year ended as on March 31, 2012.

For RAJAGOPAL & BADRI NARAYANAN

Chartered Accountants

Sd/-

M.S.Rajagopal

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BALANCE SHEET AS ON 31 MARCH 2012 Rupees in Lakhs

2012 % 2011 %A

SSET

S Fixed AssetsInvestments / DepositsCurrent Assets & Loans

298.6115.08

503.77

372

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258.4042.08

468.37

345

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Total 817.46 100 768.85 100

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Capital FundGeneral / Endowement FundsCurrent Liabilities and Provisions

298.61430.43

88.42

375311

258.40438.99

71.46

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Total 817.46 100 768.85 100

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2012

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Self GeneratedInterest / DividendAPD Self Generated IncomeIndian SourcesLocal DonationsInternational SourcesForeign DonationsDepreciation withdrawn from Capital Fund

22.16193.96

115.84

29.8833.71

649

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21.38169.45

97.39

25.0421.74

651

29

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Total 395.55 100 335.00 100

People Org. & AdvocacyTherapeutic ServicesTraining & EmploymentEducationAPD Management & Resource MobilisationDepreciationSurplus

37.8495.40

119.7644.6954.5633.71

9.59

1024301114

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38.6461.15

114.6431.5343.3021.7424.00

121834

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Total 395.55 100 335.00 100

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B.R.Shivashankar Jacqueline Colaco M.Haridas Rajagopal & Badrinarayanan (For HON. PRESIDENT) HON.TRESURER HON. SECRETARY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

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BUILDING PLATFORM FOR SECTORAL GROWTH

We have great pleasure in presenting you the 53rd year Annual Performance Report.

The whole hearted support to the organization from all quarters, to pursue the new Vision and Mission of the organization enabled us to continue to grow significantly enlarging APD’s capacity to create newer avenues for reaching out to large number of people with disability.

We continued all our programmes in Bangalore like in the past years. However, rather than seeing these activities as ends in themselves, we now see them as models or labs, training ground for the larger and newer initiatives that are being pursued.

APD made a policy decision during its Golden Jubilee year, two years ago, to adopt two new objectives:

Reach more geographical areas.

Reach more people

We are happy to present the newer strategies to meet the above objectives.

GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

If we ponder our history, we focused more on Bangalore and Kolar Districts and delivered more services through our own programs. We have now shifted our focus to –

* Working in three districts, including the one which is at a distance of 14 hours journey from Bangalore

* 40% of our work forces are now working in these districts.

* APD supported 28,175 people with disability, compared to 27,582 during the previous year through all its programs during the year 2011-12,

DOING IT TOGETHER

Traditionally Voluntary Organizations originated from the hearts of an individual or a group of individuals with the intention of “doing good” and “making a difference”. So did APD.

With the change in time and in order to attain scale, quality and pace, we designed the strategy of “doing it together” rather than doing everything on our own. We believe, unless all quarters of society actively participate and take certain responsibilities and accountability to promote inclusion, the issue will always remain a wish or a dream. No single NGO has the resource, expertise and ability to bring this transformation in society unless various quarters of society are appropriately addressed and negotiated with. APD intends to become a strong catalyst or an agent of change and intends to do this through extensive and intensive Advocacy, Capacity Building, Networking and Collaboration. We have made the beginning, but much needs to be achieved.

RESOURCE SUPPORT TO OTHER ORGANIzATIONS (RSO)

The purpose is to go beyond developing APD as an organization, but as a developing other organizations as regional resource centres to provide support for people with disability. APD shares its best practices, transfers skills and knowledge and develops the required institutional mechanism to grow as specialist organization. Ten organizations are presently supported, reaching out to more than 2000 persons. We look at this strategy as one of the most important vehicles to reach out to more people both in terms of quality and scale. In about 5 years we aim to support over fifty organizations and reach out to 30,000 PWDs through them.

DISABILITY COLLECTIvES

It is not enough to build only NGOs and other delivery agencies. Equally important is to empower the service users . We aim at building leadership among people with disability; in turn they will organize PWD right from village to national level for influencing positive changes and to proactively work with different layers of government administration and civil society organizations. They will become proactive voices in ensuring equality and justice for people with disability at the various levels.

APD has been working in building ‘collectives’, groups and associations of and for the disabled. We are happy to report that after having created collectives in nine districts,

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A BIG THANk YOU TO:

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A.B.Gopinath 22500 Raja Gopalakrishnan 12500Jayakumar Sadras 22500 Sunil Kumar 12500Anita Fernandes 22000 Avinash Gonsalves 12000Fisheye Creative Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 22000 Gool Rumi Gyara 12000Shores to Shores Pvt Limited 21490 Suhasini 12000Friedrich Rahn 21000 Venkatappa 11400Mamta Bansal 20500 Luvi Siemon 11180Amma’s Pastries 20000 A.Jayaram 11000Anil Mathaese D Souza 20000 Manohar Filaments Pvt.Ltd 11000Anitha H.J 20000 Prabha V Char 11000Anne Marie Padiyath 20000 Aditya Birla Minacs World Wide Ltd 10260Arun bhasim 20000 Anil kumar Srimathi 10100Gururaj 20000 P.V.Venkataramanappa 10002Indru Wadhwani 20000 JCSS Consultants Pvt. Ltd. 10001Knowerx Education (India) Pvt.Ltd 20000 Abdul Jabbar 10000Mainetti India Pvt. Ltd 20000 Abhay Deshmukh 10000R. Ramakrishnappa 20000 Anil Kumar Sud 10000Siena College 20000 Ann Geo Thekkal 10000V.M.C.T 20000 Anthony De Cruz 10000The Printers Mysore Ltd 20000 APL Logistics (India) Pvt LTD 10000Arun Kumar 19750 Checkpoint Checknet India Pvt Ltd. 10000Alessandro Orisi 18627 Chitranjan Das 10000Kevin & Ms. Jackie Watts 18000 Colin Sequeira 10000Casiopia David Chan 17500 Decorpac India Private Limited 10000Jayanthi Kanagaraham 17500 Vijayalakshmi M.N. 15000BEL Officers Ladies Club 16000 Hari Raja 15000Canara Bank - Bangarpet Branch 16000 Anne marie padiyath 15000R.N.Shanmugan 16000 Jemma Saldanha 14500Syed Hidyathulla 16000 Gayatri & Phillip Abbott 10000Antares India 15000 Girija 10000Avinash Jathan 15000 Girish K Naidu 10000

Hema Kuppuraj 10000Saravana Mohan 15000 12 Improve Foundation 29000Sudha Krishnan 15000 Divya Aarnav Trust 27000Syndicate Bank - Frazer Town Br 15000 Asha Nehenuiah 25000Iris M Jones 10000 Atul H.Chokshi 25000Jagadish Chandra Uttambal Damania 10000 GMR Varalakshmi Foundation 25000Jasjit 10000 Hensie 25000Jaywant H.Arakeri 10000 International Trimmings & Labels India Pvt. Ltd. 25000Jupiter Poly Products 10000 R.S.Anand 10000K.Babhuraj 10000 Rajiv Ramprasad 10000Kamsri Flexi Forms Pvt Ltd, 10000 Rangamma & Sri.S Muniswamappa Charitable Trust 10000Karneet Enterprises(India) Pvt. Ltd 10000 Saroja Chakravarty 10000Kerala Samaja 10000 Shashi Marketing 10000Lt Col Chik Basapa Memorial Trust 10000 Sheela Mascarenhas 10000M. Kumar 10000 Shrishaila Electricals(India ) Pvt. Ltd. 10000Mamta Goyal 10000 Sri Sairam Foundation 10000Matrix Clothing Pvt. Ltd 10000 Standard Chartered Bank 10000Neeraj Garg 10000 Su Vaghasia 10000P.Demello 10000 T.Srinivasan 10000P.Radha Ramakrishnan 10000 Thumboochetty Foundation 10000Pradhan 10000 Tushar 10000Udayravi Films 10000 A.L.Srinivas 10000V.S. Sunder 10000 D.M.Purnesh 10000Venugopal Nair 10000 Anitha Hombanna 10000Aditya D.Menon 10000 Annapurna R.Char 10000

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we have in place an apex collective organization for the State. We are confident that the current membership of 8000 will significantly increase in the coming years.

HUMAN RESOURCE DEvELOPMENT FOR SECTORAL GROWTH:

During the year we trained over 12,000 persons through 326 programs. Delivery agencies and disabled are by themselves still limiting in what they can achieve. We therefore, took efforts to draw in both Government and Civil Society Organizations to work together with the above two stake holders. This included grass root level functionaries, professionals and Government Officials who are engaged in providing support for people with disabilities.

New methodologies are being tried out to see what works with varied profiles of participants attending the programs. Methods adopted were: presentations of case study, participatory methods, group discussions, field exposure, study visits, and others.

This has produced tangible and intangible results which have built deeper relationship with them; in addition it has deepened their understanding on the rehabilitation needs of people with disability. The outcome is reducing our direct work at the grass root level by 35% and mobilizing the local resources to fulfil the needs of people with disability at the roots itself.

DISABILITY AREA - DEAFNESS:

Among the disability groups, the deaf persons’ group is one of the most neglected group in the country. In order to bridge this gap, APD decided to focus its attention and energy for this disability. Since we initiated the program in 2007, we are reaching out to over 2000 deaf children and young adults. As per 2001 survey, the country has over 29 lakhs of persons with hearing impairment.

APD launched an innovative program, namely “Inchara”, the state level program was organized for over 450 people for four days. This served as a platform to bring them together, to facilitate the stake holders to work towards accelerating inclusion and evolve common voice for them to ensure greater opportunities for this group. Besides this, Indian Sign Language (ISL) was implemented for Kannada speaking deaf persons and the other stake holders which was well received. APD has made the required ground work and we are continuing our efforts in adapting ISL to Kannada speaking region. This will ensure the speedier and greater inclusion of deaf persons into the main stream

institutions. In next ten years we have a goal of reaching out to over 10 thousand deaf people directly and indirectly through our multiple programs and strategies. This will ensure greater opportunities for them in this region and we can influence others to adapt the same in the rest of the country.

RECOGNITION TO APD

Image of the APD has been brightened by coveted awards conferred to APD during the year. Worth mentioning among them are the Institutional Award 2011 by the Government of Karnataka, for outstanding achievement in the welfare of the Persons with disability and Indian NGO award for the best NGO in the medium category in South India, supported by the Rockfeller Foundation USA and facilitated by the Resource Alliance

CHALLENGES OF GROWTH AND DEvELOPMENT

The problems, however, are far more deep rooted. While there has been a disability program for more than a century, progress has not been made as needed because,Government programs are either not implemented across all districts / taluks or are not “talking to each other”. There is complete lack of “holistic understanding on the needs and aspirations of people with disability”. Hence, both state and civil society organizations introduced schemes and doll outs not thinking what will make an impact. This is a huge challenge of our time to enrol and engage all stake holders to develop programs that will have impact utilizing the unique talent and resources of people with disability and their family members who are the primary stake holders. Hence, the emphasis is to engage and enable the parents and people with disability to take a “centre stage” to reach out large number and more areas.

In order to evolve holistic programmes, APD adopted multiple strategies with a commitment that all stake holders, including Government organizations, Civil society organizations and professionals will be working towards ensuring equal opportunities for all people with disability across all regions to bring in vigour and new energy in addressing the holistic needs of people with disability.

PROGRAM PERFORMANCE DURING THE YEAR

We herein present you the details of our programmes and strategies that are implemented during the year. Though the journey has been difficult, it was very enriching and fulfilling. With all your support and partnership, we will fulfil the Vision of Justice and Equality for people with disability, in the shortest possible time.

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SPONSORS We wish to acknowledge the support of all donors who donated old newspapers, enabling us to raise Rs.84926/- We thank all our staff for their dedication due to which we have been able to make all the programmes a reality & broaden our horizon.

Grants & Donations received ( Rs.10,000/-) & above)

Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) 3299905 Debasis 80000Give Foundation 2819097 Bank of India 75000Tech Mahindra Foundation 2799000 National Trust 75000Deaf Child World Wide 2473623 Difacto Robotics & Automation Pvt. Ltd 73500KPMG Foundation 2259881 St.Ambrose High School 67380Child Rights & You (CRY) 1606331 St.Ninians High School 66915Zurich Financial Services 1295314 St. Aidans High School 66115Serve Marianella 1177133 Stonehill International School 65250Northern Operating Service Pvt. Ltd. 1041926 St.Mungos High School 62960Friends of APD 882511 A. Walter Muller 62900Give 2 Asia 786636 Leela S.N. 60619Marks & Spencers (I) Pvt Limited 562935 Difacto Robotics & Automation Pvt. Ltd 73500Bangalore Indira Nagar Rotary Trust 481500 Russel Walker 54516MIBLOU 476291 Infinite Computer Solutions ( India) Limited 54281Charities Aid Foundation (India) 400972 United Way of Mumbai 50700Bangalore Cares Trust 326614 Nibras & Co 50025Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd 314680 Gautham Dayal 50000M.J.Aravind 300000 Meera Dayal 50000Gururaj Potnis 240000 Millennia Realtors Pvt. Ltd 50000Vinod Kumar Khandpur 237532 Nitin Kataria 50000Trinity High School 236643 Old Students Association 50000Jeyam Perumal 221117 Sashikala Rajamani 50000Caritas India 215850 Women’s Rehabilitation Group 48444Dhwani Foundation 202000 Basic Needs India Trust 45375VST Tillers Tractors Ltd. 175000 Bank of Baroda 45000Prasanna Trust 160485 Johnson Controls Pvt.Ltd. 42661Antony L. J. Thomas 160000 Padma & Lt.Gen. N.R.Krishnan Trust 40000Tata Elxsi Limited 151427 Rotary Cubbon Park 40000Apex Foundation 131209 B.R.Shivashankar 37609Mangalika Artificial Limb Project 122720 Narendra 37000ITC Ladies Social & Welfare Society 114850 Sri Sringeri Math and Its Properties 36000HP Employees 114400 Susan J. Cudworth 33571Rotary Club Bangalore Charitable Trust 101500 Sunitha Naveen Kumar 32500Dr Syed Ahmed Memorial Charitable Trust 100000 Ranga Gopalswami 30000Expo Freight Pvt. Ltd. 100000 Ganapathy.S 15000Roverco Apparel Company Pvt. Ltd. 100000 Jacqueline colaco 15000Tropical clothing co Pvt ltd 100000 Kellie Jackson 15000Bharat Biotech International Limited 90000 Vijayalakshmi M.N. 15000Mindscape Computing (P) Limited 90000 Hari Raja 15000Goldman Sachs Services Pvt Ltd 84400 Anne marie padiyath 15000

Jemma Saldanha 14500Sara Fanning 30000 Inner Wheel Club of Bangalore West 14150Srinivasan Rajambal Ramanan Trust 30000 Inner Wheel Club of Bangalore 14000Raghava Charity Trust 25000 Tejas 14000Sujith 25000 Pramila Jaydev 13860Satish Srinivasan 25000 Reji Varughese 13640Seva Switch Gear (P) ltd., 25000 Nagabhushan.R 13601Kauvery Ganapathy 25000 K.P.Somashekar 13500K.R.Enterprises 25000 Leela Prasad 13250Dr.Stocker Christoph & Stocker Barbara 24320 Mahindra Satyam 13000R.Nagabhushan 23400 Bindiya Murgai 12500Harmony Homes 23149 Equant Technology Service (India) Pvt. Ltd. 12500American India Foundation 23000 Nandita Kataria 12500

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PROFESSIONALS

Legal Counsels M/s.Narasimhaswamy and Singh of Swami and Singh Advocates Statutory Auditors - M/s.Rajagopal & Badri Narayanan, Internal Auditors - M/s.Venkat & Vasan

ADvERTISING & PUBLICITY

We thank the mass media including news papers, TV channels, newsletters & AIR

vOLUNTEERS

Balaji Govindarajan, Padma Gomathy, Sonali Shyam Gopal, Nurus Sabah, S Jagadish Prabhakaran, Priyanka Avaghan, Rohit Fenn, Prathima Manigandan, Umme Hani, Evelyn Lalawmphii, Harsha K.R. Ritika Singh, Nikhil Sandeep, Irfanah Modi, Bhavya Mavdanna, Prem Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Patrick Vaz, Usha Lakshminarsimhan, Dr.Raghavendra Balaji, Sharath Kumar Reddy, Shilpa Reddy, Seema Krishnadas, Luisa Antonia Frackenponl, Aishwarya Pereira, Harshita Bhattacharya, Devika Varma Srivilasan, Alina Carsou, Ms. Ranjini Goyal, Nidhi Kapur, Khushbu Desai, K. Natarajan, Stephanie Belmont, Tanushree Marina, Satish Srinivasan, Josefin Herbach, Pema Choegyal, Anusha Krishnan, AiyappaM.P, Deepak Hariharan, Ashmita Payapilly, SunithaK.R, BahuBali, Hussain A Abdullah, Fraidon Saed, Amuthan M CLazarus, Susannah Morcowitz, Sumathi Tumkur, Smitha Prasani,Aruna Morada, Sonia Rodericks, Sumana Gururaja Rao, Sapna Jadhav, Sukanya, Indrakumar Gowda, Nithin Kumar K.S Janaki RamaRaju Rudroraju Bilal Shah, C Reuben, Jegan Mohan, Ginelle Sequeira Dhvani Shah, Yahupa lJayanna, Vijay Garg Irfan, Abhishek Katariya, Syeda Farha Nishant Sharma, Mahboob Reza Sailakshmi Kashinath, Sudhansu Sekhar Sahu, Amardeep Wadhwa, Shivakumar S Bharani Ramaraj, Samrat Pal, Rupam Prasad Preeti Negi, Sneehasish Das Nina Mittal, Anand Kumar, Sandip Dev Sowmya Muniyappa Ankit Verma, Gokula H.B Sumanth Manjunath, Savitha Banakar Manjunatha Nagaraja, Dr. Maheshwarappa, Dr. Raja laxmi

12 Improve FoundationAditya Birla Minacs World Wide LtdAmerican India FoundationAmma’s PastriesAntares IndiaANZ Pvt. LtdApex FoundationAPL Logistics (India) Pvt LTDBangalore Cares Bangalore Indira Nagar Rotary TrustBank of BarodaBank of IndiaBasic Needs India TrustBEL Officers Ladies ClubBharat Biotech International LimitedCalsea Footwear Pvt. Ltd.Canara Bank - Bangarpet BranchCaritas IndiaCharities Aid Foundation (India)Checkpoint Checknet India Pvt Ltd.Child Rights & YouDeaf Child World WideDecorpac India Private LimitedDhwani FoundationDifacto Robotics & Automation Pvt. LtdDivya Arnav TrustDr Syed Ahmed Memorial Charitable TrustEquant Technology Service (India) Pvt.Ltd.Expo Freight Pvt. Ltd.Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. LtdFisheye Creative Solutions Pvt. Ltd.Friends of APDGive 2 AsiaGive FoundationGMR Varalakshmi FoundationGoldman Sachs Services Pvt LtdHarmony HomesHP EmployeesInfinite Computer Solutions ( India) LimitedInner Wheel Club of BangaloreInner Wheel Club of Bangalore WestInternational Trimmings & Labels India Pvt. Ltd.ITC Ladies Social & Welfare SocietyJCSS Consultants Pvt. Ltd.Johnson Controls Pvt.Ltd.Jupiter Poly ProductsK.P.M.G FoundationK.R.EnterprisesKamsri Flexi Forms Pvt Ltd,Karneet Enterprises(India) Pvt. LtdKerala SamajaKnowerx Education (India) Pvt.LtdKris Flexipacks Pvt. Ltd.Lt Col Chik Basapa Memorial Trust

Mainetti India Pvt. LtdMangalika Artificial Limb ProjectManohar Filaments Pvt.LtdMarks & Spencers (I) Pvt LimitedMatrix Clothing Pvt. LtdMIBLOUMillennia Realtors Pvt. LtdMindscape Computing (P) LimitedNational TrustNibras & CoNorthern Operating Service Pvt. Ltd.Old Students AssociationPadma & Lt.Gen. N.R.Krishnan TrustPrasanna TrustRaghava Charity TrustRangamma & Sri.S Muniswamappa Charitable TrustRenfro India. Pvt. Ltd.Rotary Club Bangalore Charitable TrustRotary Cubbon ParkRoverco Apparel Company Pvt. Ltd.Scotish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF)Serve MarianellaSeva Switch Gear (P) ltd.,Shashi MarketingShores to Shores Pvt LimitedShrishaila Electricals(India ) Pvt. Ltd.Siena CollegeSri Balaji Charitable TrustSri Sairam FoundationSri Sringeri Math and Its PropertiesSrinivasan Rajambal Ramanan TrustSt. Aidans High SchoolSt.Ambrose High SchoolSt.Mungos High SchoolSt.Ninians High SchoolStandard Chartered BankStonehill International SchoolSyndicate Bank - Frazer Town BrTata Elxsi LimitedTech Mahindra FoundationThe Printers Mysore LtdThumboochetty FoundationTrinity High SchoolTropical clothing co Pvt ltdUdayravi FilmsUnited Way of MumbaiVST Tillers Tractors Ltd.Women’s Rehabilitation GroupZurich Financial Services

HOSPITALSMahaveer Jain HospitalMallayya HospitalManipal HospitalNIMHANS HospitalR.L.Jalappa HospitalRamaiah Hospital

INSTITUTIONS Sindhi HospitalSSI HospitalSt.Johns HospitalSt. Philomenas HospitalSunder Hospital

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The education programme at APD aims at promoting inclusive education through focused institutional and district programs and collaborating with government institutions, NGOs, special and mainstream schools.

EDUCATION PROGRAMME REACH 2011-12

Unit Total Reach 2010-11

Total Reach 2011-12

SIS, CLC, NFE & SSLC

273 302

Urban Education Programme

602 306

Dist Education Programs

968 996

TOTAL 1843 1604

INSTITuTIONAL EduCATION PROgRAMMES

SHRADHANjALI INTEGRATED SCHOOL (SIS)

We run an integrated school with minimum of 80% of children with disabilities. The main purpose of SIS is to demonstrate the integrated model school to promote inclusive education and also utilise this as a training centre for mainstream school teachers to learn and practice inclusive education.

This year school had strength of 156 children, among them 135 children were with disability. Total number of 14 students from seventh standard passed out of the schools, out of which 8 joined regular schools, 3 enrolled in special schools and 3, were supported to join vocational training.

The key emphasis of the school during the year was on supporting more number of children with Cerebral palsy and deafness, concentrated efforts were made to recruit eight teachers and to train them on the teaching skills, methodologies and team work to support CP and Deaf children. ‘Awaz’, an assistive device was introduced for

the use of children with Cerebral Palsy. Individual lessons plans were made comprehensive and weekly and monthly review meetings were inducted to support teachers to focus on academic skills improvement. An exposure visit to SPASTEN, Vidhya Sagar and Bala Vidhyalaya at Chennai was organised for a group of teachers along with parents and senior students to understand the other models and approaches. Experiment was done through engaging volunteers to increase children, teacher ratio through getting one to one support from dedicated volunteers. This has resulted in ensuring quality time to needy children.

SIS focus for the next year includes further strengthening teachers skills, engaging volunteers for individual support, initiate early education programme for the age group of 18 to 36 months children, usage of technology to aid learning skills among children and execute study of SIS to draw future strategic directions to school.

Our challenges continue to retain and recruit quality teachers and ensure mainstreaming opportunities for children with severe nature of CP.

COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRES (CLC)

We run three Community Learning Centres in Bangalore city with the purpose of preparing children with severe and multiple disabilities to attain either mainstream schools or special school. These centres also serve a model to education department and practitioners to explore new avenues for ensuring education of children with severe disabilities.

During the year CLC had strength of 105 children, 32 children were prepared for admitting in to mainstream and special schools. The same will be ensured in the beginning of academic year 2012.

A key emphasis during the year was on enhancing the skills of all teachers on working with severe disabilities. Setting up infrastructure at Ulsoor centre with the

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EMPLOYEE DETAILS

There were 168 staff members, out of whom 95 were men and 73 women. Among 168 staff, 47 men & 18 women are with disability.

Slab of gross Salary as on 31-03-2012

Less than 3000 -

3001 – 5000 7

5001 - 8000 60

8001 - 10000 28

10001 - 15000 49

15001 - 20000 9

20001 - 25000 6

25001 - 30000 4

30001 - 40000 4

40001 - 50000 1

Total Staff 168

STAFF REMUNERATION (GROSS MONTHLY SALARY + BENEFITS)

Highest Paid : V.S.Basavaraju – Executive Director Rs.50,668/- & Lowest Paid: Mudasim Banu - Teacher – Rs.4717/-

No remuneration or sitting fees have been paid to the Trustees or Board Members during the year 2011 – 2012.

APD is registered under the Mysore Societies Registration

Act : vide number S-2179 dated: 20.05.1959. All contributions to APD are exempted from Income Tax u/s 80G of IT Act, 1961.

International Travel Details: Mr. K.N.Gopinath & Mr. Abhijit Mukherjee visited UK as part of SCIAF invitation and global exchange programme. Mrs.Lourdh Marie, Mrs.Kanchan Veeramuthu, Mr.Manjunath & Mr.Basavaraja Samshi visited Scotland as part of the Global School Exchange Programme organized by 5 Scottish Schools. Mrs.Shylaja, Ms.Margaret Rose & Mr.Janardhan visited SCIAF – Scotland as part of Advocacy & Fund Raising workshop.

Local conveyance reimbursed to Board Members during the financial year was Rs.124989/-

This Annual Report conforms to minimum norms prescribed by the Credibility Alliance.

ACkNOWLEDGEMENT

We thank all our staff for their dedication due to which we have been able to make all the programmes a reality and broaden our horizon.

We are grateful to all our donors who have contributed to the progress of our centre in various ways. Deccan Herald, Prajavani and Sudha have been supplied free of cost during the year 2011-12.

Our earnest appreciation & sincere gratitude to Foundations/ Companies/Service Organization/

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support of Education department and BBMP was another major achievement. CLC’s engagement with local mainstream schools contributed in a big way to influence positive attitudinal changes among other children towards disabilities. CLC team ensured 100% retention of children in schools.

The focus of the coming year of CLCs will be to strengthen number of children to both centres, introduce modified new curriculum to standardise systems in all centres, developing strategies for self sustainability of these centres, engage KMPG to conduct social audit of Ulsoor CLC and develop documentary on CLC to promote the concept.

The key challenges of this programme are to ensure adequate space for Shishumanagla centre and ensuring the future education possibilities of a few children who are with high support needs.

Community organized sports event.

In December, an Annual Sports Meet was organised in the Ambedkar playground, Murphy Town, Bangalore, in which 350 children participated. These students included from the 3 CLCs, our urban community programme and 5 mainstream and 3 special schools. The community supported the event by permitting use of the playground, volunteering to organised events and contributed resources towards food, 300 prizes, banners and other sports materials. This is an example of APD’s new policy “Working Together”

NFE AND SSLC PROGRAMME AT ASHRAM

The rural centre of APD “Anand Ashram” situated in Kolar district aims at, imparting education to SSLC failed children with disabilities to ensure them to either continue their further education or opt for vocational skills to lead independent life.

During the year launched Non Formal Education, a new programme for school dropout children in the age group of nine to fifteen year. 24 children were enrolled in the first batch. As part of ongoing SSLC support programme, 14 students were supported; out of them 12 opted to take exams in this academic year. From the previous batch seven have moved to higher and vocational education. The new infrastructure support enabled our capacity to support from 20 children to 50 children.

The coming year focus of this programme includes strengthen the curriculum of NFE programme, achieve minimum 50 children to use the campus, enhancing

technology aid support for better learning opportunities and stream lining assessment and follow up process.

The challenges in Ashram programmes includes, retaining staff in education programme and developing ongoing review systems.

uRBAN COMMuNITy EduCATION PROgRAMME

SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAMME (SSP)

SSP is a new initiative started this year. APD believes that children with disability benefit more if they are in mainstream schools, rather than in special schools. However, most mainstream schools have to be prepared to include children with disability and do justice to their learning.

In the 1st year itself inroads were made by working with six schools and having them admit 18 students by the end of the year. Two of these schools have indicated their interest in enhancing their intake and infrastructure.

Our task in the future year is not just only enrolling 50 children to mainstream schools, but also to ensure quality education.

The initial challenges encountered in SSP are resistance in few schools to admit children with disabilities and securing permissions for teacher’s time for training programme.

EARLY INTERvENTION PROGRAMME (EIP)

APD’s EIP is aimed at ensuring early intervention support to new born babies to prevent secondary deformities and achieve early independence through technical support and parents training. This programme is done in partnership of 14 BBMP health centres in Bangalore city.

During the year 9919 babies were screened, of these 225 were identified with various kinds of disabilities and 293 children were identified as severe malnourishment which leads to disability. In collaboration with Women & Child development department 80 children were enrolled at Anganwadis to ensure nutrition supplement, six children were supported to get support under

Bal S anjivini. 280 children were supported for health requirements through network of government hospitals. The therapy team supported 97 children for assessment and 54 parents were trained on rehabilitation and general health aspects through training programme.

The focus of EIP programme for the next year includes, building network of doctors for training and technical support, work closely with Health, Women & Child

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development department to increase their accountability in screening and intervention, set up separate assessment system at APD and tie up with either SPASTEN or Vidya Sagar for technical support.

The key challenge of this programme is retaining programme manager, effective follow up systems to increase walk -in of identified children to APD, increasing accountability of health department and prevention of children deaths.

Enabling Education through SSP

Ameen was born with Cerebral Palsy. When he was four years, he started Kindergarten at APD’s SIS. Over the years, through corrective surgery and physiotherapy, his mobility improved and now he can walk independently using a rollator. However Ameen’s academic progress was hampered due to his disability condition. The individual attention which he received through our special reading programme enabled him to read and manage on his own. However writing and grasping concepts are still a big challenge for Ameen.

Ameen is now 16 years old. In the past, persons like him would have dropped out of school, unable to pursue formal education, would have never managed to get into main stream schools. Under this initiative, Ameen was admitted to the Divya Shanti Special School which enables students to study under the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) programme. He now gets extra coaching for five days a week and has access to a computer that supports his writing needs.

Technical support extended to schools like Divya Shanti provides opportunity to students like Ameen to continue their education and prepare for a productive future.

MAINSTREAM EDUCATION IN URBAN COMMUNITY

The main aim of urban community programme is to ensure comprehensive disability programme in the slums of Bangalore through existing systems and structures to provide quality education to children with disabilities.

With a limited staff ensured retention of 210 children in schools. 35 deaf children who needed required support in academics were connected with Institute of Speech and Hearing and SIS. The team also ensured admission of 35 children into mainstream schools. 32 children were supported financially and provided with required resources to study in mainstream schools. Seven children were coached to appear for SSLC exams.

A summer vacation camp was conducted for 40 children from mainstream schools. In the week long residential camp children were given training in academics, therapy and daily living skills. Parents training and their participation was the highlight through the year.

dISTRICT dISABILITy MANAgEMENT ANd dEvELOPMENT PROgRAMME - EduCATION (ddMdP)

DISTRICT EDUCATION

APD’s DDDP education programme aims at ensuring inclusive education to all children with disabilities up to the age group of 16 years, through capacity building and networking with both government and private education systems in these three districts of Karnataka.

During the year, 3208 children were identified under DDDP in the districts of Chikkaballapur, Davangere and Bijapur through camps and surveys conducted along with Government agencies. Of them, 875 children were assessed by the district teams and 44 dropouts were identified. These dropouts are targeted for readmission into the schools in the coming academic year. All assessed children were ensured minimum of two educational services during the period. SSA of Karnataka hired APD’s support to develop Individualized Education Program (IEP) in all the three districts, in the first phase IEP was developed for 205 children and supported teachers to develop programmes for these children.

113 children got various inputs through camps which improved their communication, self confidence and social skills. The camp approach provided greater opportunity to engage government, local donors and other systems. Around 60% of the resources for camp were raised locally.

To enhance the academic skills seven learning centres of government were identified and equipped with necessary teaching kits and other resources for improving teaching and learning opportunities for children. These centres provided therapeutic and academic support to 144 children on a weekly basis. 60 children below the age of six were admitted to Anganwadis.

DEAF EDUCATION PROGRAMME

One of education programmes major aspect is to develop inclusive education model for deaf children in the state of Karnataka. It work towards building education department and parents’ capacity in total communication abilities.

During the period, our team was being consulted by SSA in planning at the State and district level issues

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Vehicles: Rotary Club, Indiranagar, has donated a new 20-seater Swaraj Mazda School Bus with a Hydraulic lift for the use of children in our Shishumangala CLC, thus fulfilling our wish for a user and disabled-friendly wheel chair accessible vehicle.

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

The income earned during the year was Rs.570.07 lakhs which was 96.96% of the budgeted income of Rs.587.91lakhs. Expenditure was Rs. 547 Lakhs at 86. 34% of the budgeted expenses of 633.79 Lakhs. This resulted in a net surplus of Rs. 22.83 Lakhs, at the end of the year as against the estimated deficit of Rs.45.88 lakhs. This satisfactory performance was due to enhanced financial discipline and effective management.

COMMUNICATION AND FUND RAISING

The aim of C&F is to increase public awareness on APD and generate sufficient local resources to achieve self sustainability.

During the year, APD continued its fund raising drive by participating in popular events. APD ranked the number one NGO in the TCS 10K Marathon conducted in Bangalore, having raised the maximum funds for the fourth consecutive year. Executive Director, was ranked number one Care Champion in the men category for the highest funds mobilized by him and Hon. Treasurer was ranked number one in women category

Volunteer base has been extremely active contributing 11330 hours of work. Over 250 well versed individuals including several from corporate houses, NGOs, schools and colleges were engaged in a wide range of activities during the year. 75 volunteers were actively involved in teaching children at the school and training centres, counselling, documentation and compilation of the newsletter.

The challenges of institutional programme include, attracting quality professionals and retaining staff is a major challenge. There is need to make huge investment for training the professionals and not knowing their continuity for the sector. Getting quality trainers and the required financial resources from the individuals and organizations for this purpose continues to be difficult task and is a concern. We have to address collectively for the future growth of quality support and sectoral growth.

The need is to engage and enrol the key leaders in the

sector to invest the talent and resources for Research & Development, in the areas of improving processes and standards for ensuring sustained growth on an ongoing basis.

APD FUTURE PLANS

Restructuring livelihood training programmes to get external institution’s support and introducing short term programmes relevant to market requirements.

Step up networking with mainstream schools to promote inclusion of CWD and ensure to build the capacity of institutions.

Merging of the Wheelchair and Mobility programmes to improve quality of services and to enhance productivity.

Restructure the trading part of horticulture and mobility programmes to achieve focused revenue generation model to ensure self sustainability.

To grow as a reputed Resource Centre in disability management & development for sectoral development.

To bring about systemic change in the disability sector in four districts of Karnataka, i.e. Chikkaballapur, Davangere, Bijapur and Bangalore

STATuTORy ANd INSTITuTIONAL INFORMATION

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT FOR THE YEAR

Office Bearers and Trustees Office held in the Trust

Mr.V.P.Mahendra Hon. President

Mr.B.R.Shivashankar Hon. Vice President

Mr.M.Haridas Hon. Secretary

Mr.N.S.Chinnappa Hon. Associate Secretary

Ms.Jacqueline Colaco Hon. Treasurer

Justice. R.Gururajan Trustee

Prof.Atul Chokshi Trustee

Mrs.Rajni Wadhwani Trustee

Mr.M.J.Aravind Trustee

Wg.Cdr Thomas Verghese Member

Mr.S.Renukaradhya Member

Dr.Janardhana Member

Mr.Mahesh Kumar Thallam Member

Mr.Lukose Vallathurai Member

Our Present Membership: Total 114: Patrons 15, Life Members 92, Ordinary Members :7

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relating to the deaf. The team has identified 58 children in new areas. Reached out to 447 stakeholders through Kannada sign language training. These trainings helped in developing positive attitude towards deaf persons and reduced communication gaps.

APD organized a week long awareness programme to commemorate world deaf day during September. The programme started with a massive rally in partnership with education department where 230 students from different schools participated. A signature campaign was organized in public places to support the cause, Sign language classes were held for B.Ed and D.Ed colleges. In all, more than 2000 children and adults were given awareness about different aspects of life situations of deaf community. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana (SSA) has extended support by bringing children with S&HI to our learning centres for speech therapy, language building, and learning Kannada sign language.

Ammajan’s parents show the way………

Ammajan is a youth with HI. She was identified in 2006 in Village Burudugunte in Chintamani. She comes from a lower middle class family. In 2009 she joined our SSLC residential programme. She passed the SSLC exam and is now pursuing her higher education at Adarsha College. She is the only one of three siblings to have passed SSLC and is pursuing higher education. Her family has always been very supportive. Her father learnt sign language first and then he made all the other family members also learn. Her elder brother is looking for a bride and has said he will only choose a girl whom Ammajan approves.

THERAPY AND MOBILITY SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITY

To ensure education, mobility and theraputical services are essential. During the year Institutional therapy team conducted 637 clinical assessments including 48 students from SIS, 149 through the Community Learning Centres, 181 CGP trainees, 73 through camps and 186 from the Early Intervention Programme. 1775 children were provided therapeutic support, 15 children had surgical intervention and 10 were ensured home accessibility support. These interventions resulted in inclusion to schools.

ADvOCACY SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITY

The aim of education advocacy is to ensure proactive role of government in achieving school admissions, retention,

quality education and protection of child rights. During the year advocacy team ensured 1728 persons to access various government social security schemes.

For the first time a medical camp was conducted at APD campus in partnership with District Disability Rehabilitation Centre at Bangalore; through which 116 persons applied for disability cards and later 43 of them were supported to receive mobility aids through DDRC. Advocacy team ensured permission of Scribe and extra time allocation for children with disabilities.

ADvOCACY REACH - EDUCATION

Name of the Scheme 2011 -12 Total

Urban Rural

ID cards & Medical certificate 13 283 296

Monthly allowances-PHP 0 47 47

Bus Pass & Railway Pass 14 251 265

Scholarship 58 282 340

Housing 1 72 73

3% reservation from Panchayath and other dept.

4 94 98

Training and Employment & Adhara Scheme

16 251 267

Access to National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

0 30 30

Income certificates 0 0 0

Niramaya Health cards 22 0 22

Aids & Appliance 6 202 208

Medical kit-Spinal Injury 0 55 55

Sandya & Janani Suraksha 2 0 2

Adhar Card 23 2 25

Total 159 1569 1728

The future focus of district education programme includes, training APD community education team on total communication, develop formal relationship with SSA to impart communication skills to IERT’s and school teachers in all the three districts, execute baseline study on levels of learning of deaf children in the state of Karnataka, develop teaching aids and public awareness materials to promote inclusive education.

The challenges in DDDP education programme includes, ensuring quality educational intervention at mainstream schools for children with CP, deaf and severe disabilities and ensuring active participation of parents in over all process of inclusive education and changing the mindset of larger community.

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ADMINISTRATION, INFRASTRUCTURE AND

FINANCE

The aim of administration system is to ensure adequate systems, structures and policies are made and managed efficiently.

The CLC in Ulsoor, which runs in government school, was renovated and two additional toilets and a pathway from the classroom to the toilets were constructed to facilitate easier accessibility and comfort of quality education for the children. This has become one of the best models in government set up and effectively supported 24 severely disabled children to use the facilities.

At APD’s Main Campus in Lingarajapuram the asbestos cement roofing of the old UCBR/Physiotherapy rooms was replaced and partitions made to create separate rooms for a training hall, office and library. Upgraded the electric wiring and had fresh earth pits dug to safeguard against grounding problems. Five solar street lights and three solar water heating systems were installed in the main campus.

In Jeevan Bheema Nagar Campus, constructed a dormitory, dining hall and toilets required for expansion of the training programme. In Horticulture Campus at Kyalasanahalli, a Decentralized Waste Water Treatment plant was constructed. Through this wastewater generated from the Kitchen, Toilets and Laundry is being treated and stored for use in the horticulture training plots. At Anand Ashram a new building has been added with two classrooms, training hall, dinning room, kitchen and toilet facilities. Library has been set up in APD main campus.

Computer Network and Internet: The server room was shifted and reorganized. Power has been routed through UPS in almost all departments. Cabling has been upgraded and Wi-Fi is installed in parts of the APD main campus. Workgroup architecture to MS Windows was converted based on domain architecture. Internet and networking systems at the three district offices were installed and training on Data Base Management was given to staff.

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VRWs and MRWs 1303 602 98 252 40 486 24 530 2032

IERTS and SSA employees 699 48 199 123 0 0 0 25 395

ASHA workers 803 73 35 199 0 0 0 70 377

Anganwadi Workers 1058 118 18 198 0 324 0 134 792

ANMs 135 0 0 30 0 0 0 10 40

Medical Officers 97 0 0 25 0 0 0 0 25

PHC Doctors. 23 0 0 94 0 0 0 7 101

ADP staff. 116 56 45 35 0 8 3 5 152

Other Government Officials 267 1168 0 145 0 0 0 30 1343

Parents and Caregivers. 2635 341 169 695 0 66 48 611 1930

Parents for Early Intervention

157 0 39 429 0 0 0 40 508

Employers. 144 0 0 0 0 68 36 8 112

College Teachers and Principals 673 176 0 0 0 42 0 8 226

School Teachers and Principals 1518 63 338 357 0 0 0 135 893

Vocational Trainers 18 0 0 0 0 12 0 2 14

DPO Members 324 246 23 18 5 56 0 68 416

Community /General public 335 0 0 163 0 0 395 65 623

Students. 264 282 663 601 0 0 0 430 1976

Youth groups 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

Home Based Volunteers 54 0 0 98 0 0 0 60 158

Post graduate and diploma in Rehabilitation Therapy Trainees

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Ortho Technician Trainees 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 10996 3208 1638 3557 66 1117 521 2320 12427

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INSTITUTIONAL LIvELIHOOD PROGRAMME

The aim of APD’s institutional vocational skills programme is to impart specific vocational skills to persons with disabilities, to ensure employment in order to achieve dignity and economic independence. Towards this APD offers range of vocational services to young people with disabilities in age group of 16 to 35 years.

CAREER GUIDANCE AND PLACEMENT UNIT (CGP)

The aim of CGP unit is to assess, guide, support and refer potential young people with disabilities to either achieve vocational skills, higher education, employment or self employment in order to ensure economic independence and social inclusion.

APD’s Training and Livelihood program aims to enable and empower young people with disabilities by providing opportunities for self-sustainability.

The Livelihood theme includes institutional activities such as Career Guidance and Placement unit (CGP), conducting of ITI, IT, Foundation & Allied courses, Horticulture training and Community livelihood programme through DDDP in the three districts. During the year the programme has reached 3500 persons with disability that includes 1122 youth through institutional services and 2378 through the District Disability Management and Development Programme.

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Support to Direct Training at APD

311 71 41 4 15 73 17 0 8 25 1 0 0 255

Support to Skills training / higher education at Main Stream Institutions

524 77 30 26 3 0 3 240 4 4 2 99 0 488

Sub Total 835 148 71 30 18 73 20 240 29 3 99 0 2174

Job Placements 590 152 59 49 114 0 5 3 0 0 0 12 36 430

Sub Total 590 152 59 49 114 0 5 3 0 0 12 36 430

Grand Total 1425 300 130 79 132 73 25 243 29 3 111 36 2604

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Institution development aims at ensuring competitive human resource, comprehensive HR systems and policies, effective finance & admin systems and local resource generation for sustainability and growth of the organisation.

HUMAN RESOURCES DEvELOPMENT

HRD aims at evolving effective HR practices to ensure availability of required human resources, growth and development of all employees and continual improvement of APD activities through capacity building.

During the year, 168 staff and 80 casual employees were on the roll, the revised pay scale was implemented from 1st September 2011. Policy documents such as HR manual, leave policy, travel policy, employee handbook and child protection policy were drafted and are awaiting final Board approval. A strategic plan for the year 2012 to 2015 was developed with the support of external expert in consultation with 37 staff across the organisation. Horticulture unit structure was redesigned and new job descriptions have been completed. Filed a request for RCI certification for four training courses. On the occasion of World Women’s Day, three women employees were recognized and given awards by the Foundation for Art & Culture for the Deaf.

Following training programmes were attended by our staff during the year

6 persons were sent to Scotland under an exchange programme with the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) and with partnering schools of Scotland to study resource mobilisation and education systems.

26 staff participated in an Inclusive Education training programme and 15 staff attended Database management training.

32 students appeared for the CBR exam through the APD study centre. 28 students attended the CBR Course and 5 attended the Add on course.

18 staff participated in Stress Management training.

22 persons from various NGOs attended an advocacy/ rights based approach training programme.

Team building exercises were conducted for 19 staff from Davangere and Bijapur and Basic disability training was provided to 47 staff across the organization:

18 persons from APD and other NGOs attended a Developmental Therapy Intervention training programme.

150 employees took part in a fun-filled staff get together at Mekedatu.

CAPACITY BUILDING

The key aspects of APD is to build capacity of user partners and concerned stakeholders to play an active role in the process of disability rehabilitation and development, all our programmes have trained total of 12427 people on various issues pertaining to disability. This has resulted in increased support mechanism, referrals, representation of disability issues and to implement several disability related programmes from government, NGO’s and corporates. Following are details of capacity building efforts of the year.

Institutional Development

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During the year 1731 persons with disabilities registered with CGP out of which 1024 were in the age group 16-35. Of these 441 persons availed vocational training support. 332 persons were assisted with placement. CGP extended network with 31 new companies to organise 16 campus interviews, which resulted in 67 direct placements. Our candidates are placed in the salary range of Rs 5000 to Rs 17000 in IT/ITES, Industrial, Retail, Hospitality and Garment sectors.

Four career guidance workshops were conducted, in which 195 candidates registered. Out of them 43 SSLC and PUC students were provided career guidance, as a result 7 joined the foundation course at APD and 12 went for higher education.

CGP unit registration process has been made online during the year, through this candidates are being issued registration cards online and it is connected to all other services of APD by using Goonjan software. This support system has enabled to speed up all the CGP activities.

The next year CGP focus includes, strengthen counselling support, developing process manual, extensive usage of data base for planning, reviews and report generation, expand network in the area of retail, hospitality and BPO industries.

Challenges of CGP are, retaining placement officers, finding suitable counsellor, strengthening networks with larger employment chains and preparing candidates based on the corporate requirements.

ITC AND IT TRAINING

The key aim of ITC and IT is to impart Industry and IT related skills to young persons with and without disabilities to enable them with competency and skills to find employment in the respective areas.

During the year major achievement of ITC is to obtain permanent affiliation form DGET to offer courses. A total of 161 trainees received training in both ITC and IT courses. Health assessments were conducted for all ITC

Collaboration with User-Partners

Through APD’s Alumni network, our placement cell was able to collaborate with Aditya Birla Minacs, a Business Process Outsourcing company. 19 of our IT trainees were hired through campus Interviews for BPO roles at salary levels of Rs 5000 to Rs 7000. The performance of the candidates has been so good that the company has enrolled them in an academic scholarship programme which supports youth with disabilities.

and IT trainees of whom 37 were referred for medical intervention. 80 trainees were identified as malnourished and were provided a nutrition supplement for a period of 100 days and all trainees attended health education classes which resulted in marked improvements in health and hygiene. APD’s effort to get government order from the Department of Employment and Training for extra time and scribes to help the trainees during their AITT examinations which helped more than 50 candidates with

disability, in the state.

ITC Trades No of Trainees

IT Trades No of Trainees

Fitter Seniors 11Advanced diploma in Multimedia

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Fitter Juniors 13 Adobe Project 25

Electronic Mechanic Juniors 14

Office management 08

Electronic Mechanic Seniors

08 Data entry 09

Foundation Course (2011-12)

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SUPPORT FOR PERSONS WITH LEARNING DISABILITY

As per APD’s new policy, the programme has been redesigned. Presently aims at empowering parent bodies to ensure life skills, vocational opportunities and earning abilities for persons with learning disabilities.

During the year livelihood team supported both technically and financially Navjeevana Parents Association. With APD support 18 young people with learning disabilities were able to work in sheltered workshop. Navajeevana has generated a revenue of Rs. 1, 40,686 during the year through their sale of products and local resource mobilisation.

BUILDING BRIDGES FOR HEARING IMPAIRED

Imparting vocational skills through effective communication to support young people with hearing impaired to achieve economic independence is the aim of this programme.

During the year 76 persons with speech and hearing impairment underwent vocational training at APD campus. Students were supported through building a common sign language, vocabulary enhancement, language building and calligraphy skills to improve

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handwriting. Special sessions were given to improve their speech with inputs on Sign Language/Speech therapy. Exposure visits were organized to National park, National Association for Blind (NAB) and Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium to enhance their social skills.

A residential workshop on livelihood opportunities for 17 deaf adults was conducted in collaboration with B.D. Tatti School and Kurse School for the Deaf. 16 in house staff were trained in basic sign language. Quarterly parents meeting and consultation workshop facilitated by APD resulted in forming Parents Federation with 200 members.

Scholarship Programme: To ensure continuity and mainstreaming of young people with disabilities to higher and technical education, APD provided an average of Rs. 8000/- as scholarship to 144 persons, which ensured admissions in to pre-universities, universities and other technical courses.

The future plans of institutional livelihood programme include, ensuring process manuals of IT,ITC and foundations courses, initiating foundation course for student below SSLC, data base development and usage, revising of existing women’s training at Anandashram and strengthening recruitment process.

The challenges of this programme are; retaining professional staff, finding suitable disabled candidates to meet job requirements of the corporate sector and introducing short term training programmes for increasing employment possibilities.

HORTICULTURE (HT)

HT of APD is a therapeutic and eco-friendly livelihood opportunity for young persons with disability who have either no education or with limited education.

During the year the team conducted 23 camps in which 798 young persons with disability were assessed of whom 274 were short listed for horticulture training. 524 persons were referred to CGP and other mainstream institutions for accessing support.

For the first time HT introduced one year course in both horticulture and cooking for women with disability. To improve learning opportunities of deaf young trainees, 150 gardening words have been added to our sign language vocabulary. Totally 98 persons were trained during this year in both the training centres and 15 persons trained in one month foundation course. 28 young persons from previous batch were placed.

PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES

With an aim of imparting vocational skills to young women with disabilities, APD for the first time started one year residential training in the cooking & horticulture training in its Jeevan Bheema Nagar campus. The group had 12 trainees from six districts of Karnataka in the first batch. They were taught ornamental and commercial horticulture with theory & practical inputs. In Cookery the trainees were taught food recipes of south Indian dishes, chaats and sweets. Trainees also learnt food processing and preparation of dairy products. Apart from Horticulture training and cooking, trainees also learnt domestic management, basic literacy, communication skills and accounting.

During the year the rural centre Anand Ashram provided vocational training for 25 women with disability in tailoring, embroidery and craft making by using waste materials from the local sericulture industry. Of them 3 are now self- employed and 2 have found jobs and all trainees received home management and group living skills as well.

Plant Fair: Plant fair aims at providing an opportunity for trainees to exhibit their talents through fair and also encourage general public to participate. Last year three garden fairs were organised respectively at APD Main Campus, JBN and K.Halli. These were inaugurated by eminent individuals of high profile such as Her Excellency, the Governor of Uttarakand, Smt. Margaret Alva, Mr David Mulborough, CEO Northern Trust and Mr. Sebi Chacko, Head of Human Resource South Asia.

The future plan of HT includes, developing 500 signs related to HT to support deaf young people, streamline recruitment systems to enhance increased admissions to courses, conduct masters training programme in horticulture, process manual for commercial activities and strengthening employment avenues.

The present challenge of HT includes effective implementation of recently designed new structures at the programme and recruitment of required number of trainees.

DISTRICT DISABILITY MANAGEMENT AND DEvELOPMENT PROGRAMME(DDMDP) – LIvELIHOOD

DISTRICT LIvELIHOOD

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The future plans of collectives includes, strengthening of their efforts to ensure education, rehabilitation services and health needs of children with disabilities, working towards livelihood opportunities for their respective members. RSO programme focus on enrolling two more organisations to support in the area of deaf children’s education and it will also work towards enhancing partners on self sustainability.

The challenges of collective are, retaining activists and receiving positive and open support from local government systems and achieving effective participation by all its members. RSO’s challenges include achieving self sustainability of partner organisations and resource mobilisation at APD level to support this concept.

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME (CMHP)

This programme aims at ensuring overall rehabilitation support to persons with mental health issues within their own communities to achieve independence and dignity in their lives.

During the year the team identified 515 new Persons with Mental Illness (PWMI) cases; total reach of the programme was 1401. 218 new PWMI were assessed through assessment camps, 531 persons were referred for treatment to various hospitals and the previous members are under medication and counselling.

2155 people from related government departments were trained through 65 awareness programmes. Three day residential camp for 35 PWMI and caregivers were organised and 16 caregivers and 18 meetings of the caregivers federation were conducted during the year. The total membership of the caregivers’ federation reached to 258 and the members have been active in identification, awareness building and lobbying with government agencies to enhance more support to PWMI persons.

As part of public awareness generation, our team was able to influence district health officers for Wall-Writing in district, hospitals in Chikkaballapur and Davangere have now displayed wall writing and we got sanction for 100 other hospitals. For the first time we were able to influence health department to organise world mental health day events.

The future plan of community mental health includes, initiating the work at Bijapur district, develop structured

We identified 4 young community leaders from the Chikkaballapur Disability Collective to become user-partners in the community mental health programme. Three persons have locomotor disability and one is a parent of a child with cerebral palsy. They were then inducted into the fellowship programme run by the NGO, Basic Needs. Basic needs provided inputs and designated 3 of them as fellows and one as mentor. They are being paid an honorarium to participate in community mental health efforts through identification, capacity building, referrals and enabling access to social security schemes. In the last few months, this team has identified 22 PWMIs, referred 18 to local hospitals and enrolled them as members of their federation. The APD team continues to provide guidance and follow up support to develop community leaders.

training package for care givers and health workers, engaging health department in public awareness programmes and ensuring camps at taluk levels.

The challenges of the CMH programme is the non availability of Psychiatric professionals at district levels, distance between the hospitals and people, scattered population to organise groups.

SPINAL CORD INjURY PROGRAMME (SCI)

SCI programme aims at ensuring social and medical rehabilitation of persons with spinal injuries to readjust to their changed life and lead independent life.

During the year 132 new identifications were done with this programme supported total 830 persons. The programme ensured 71 PWSCI to access government social security schemes, 11 persons to access education support, two were placed in jobs, 12 received support under the 3% reservation scheme and accessed 135 medical kits. 81 PSCI received appliances, seven persons were provided with home accessibility.

The future plan of the spinal injury programme focuses on establishing social rehabilitation centre at Magadi, introduce work at Bijapur district, training programme to develop rehabilitation workers and strengthen SIA to become independent body.

The challenge of the Spinal injury programme is to recruit technical person to co-ordinate the programme, lack of support systems at the government level and affordability to medical services.

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35 years through capacity building and networking with both government and private systems in the three districts of Karnataka.

During the year 4784 persons with disabilities were identified in these districts through surveys and camps organized in conjunction with local authorities. Assessment was conducted for 1580 persons, resulting in 302 youth assessed for skill training and higher education through referrals and follow-ups.

10 preparatory workshops were conducted for 230 youth who were given inputs on opportunities in education and training and to access government schemes. 61 youths were supported through two short term foundation courses. 85 persons were provided placement and 12 were

assisted to self employment by availing loans through private agencies. 97 persons were assisted in applying for self employment loans offered by the District Industry Centre and NHFDC.

The future focus on district livelihood programme includes; exploring more of rural based employments, strengthening the network with employers in the region, introducing foundation courses and promotion of self employment through government and other systems.

The challenges in new districts are: lack of motivation among persons with disabilities and parents, lack of role models and understanding about the potentials of disabilities, limited mainstream jobs and vocational training facilities and retaining skilled staff.

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Shankar sets up own garment unit:Shankar was struck by a severe attack of polio which affected his both legs and his left hand. APD identified him in 2008 at an assessment camp conducted together with local corporation and helped him get a job in a garment factory where he was initially paid Rs 2000/- per month. And later, another garment company offered him twice the pay. But, he had a desire to start his own business.

In 2011, APD connected Shankar to a funding organization which approved his business plan and loaned him Rs 2.5 Lakhs to start a small unit in a Bangalore suburb. He is making over 50 items per day and hopes to double that in a few months. He is providing employment to three other persons with disability. He hopes to scale up with four more machines and employ more people.

THERAPY AND MOBILITY SUPPORT

Therapy and Mobility support for young people with disabilities aims at ensuring independent and functional abilities to achieve self reliance. APD institutional needs are met by the central therapy and mobility team.

In the districts 425 children were assessed and 67 were reassessed. 234 provided therapeutic interventions, while 5 children received surgical support. 119 children with severe disabilities in the districts received support through government appointed home based volunteers, 81 aids and appliances were distributed in the districts and another 160 received through our Orthotics Satellite centre in Kolar and the centre managed by our partner NGO, Samuha in Koppal.

Type of therapy 2010-11 2011 - 12

Rural Urban APD Institution

Total

Physiotherapy 2907 410 409 2165 2984

Speech therapy 206 68 70 140 278

Occupational therapy 181 180 110 185 475

Early Intervention Programme

518 518

Grand Total 3294 658 1107 2490 4255

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with the support of the Rajya Angavikalara Aikyatha Vedike submitted a memorandum to the DC to conduct monthly grievance meetings. As a result DC conducted five meetings and addressed 53 issues pertaining to disabilities.

REACH THROUGH DISABILITY COLLECTIvE

ParticularsOverall

reach as on 31-3-2011

Overall reach as on

31-3-2012

No. of Groups Rural -259Urban-11

Rural -273Urban-11

No. of people with disability 6048 6048

No. of care givers / supporters 1376 1409

Total no. of people in DPOs. 5869 6064

No. of federations 270 250

Membership in Federation 5373 5601

Total members in DPOs & Federations

11242 11665

Net membership after allowing 20% overlaps in between DPOs & Federation

8994 8508

Note: From the previous year 250 Federations and 824 DPO members have withdrawn from the programme.

RESOURCE SUPPORT TO ORGANIzATIONS (RSO)

APD’s RSO programme aims to provide technical human and financial support to selected NGO partners for an agreed period to enable them to become self sustainable organisations in disability work. The programme is supporting ten organisations working in seven districts of Karnataka. Our partners reached 846 children and 903 youths to support education and livelihood needs. APD provided grants amounting to Rs. 21.92 Lakhs to organisations.

During the year 25 heads of organisations and senior staff of 8 organisations were trained to enhance organization governance and leadership skills. 64 staff from 9 organisations were trained to improve their skills and competence in the area of education, therapy & mobility and livelihood. RSO enabled partners to set up two resource centres in Tumkur and Kolar to promote quality education for children with deafness and to set up ‘wheelchair service’ in Koppal. 10 children with disability were supported with surgery and 150 mobility aids and

wheelchairs were distributed in five organisations. Three organisations were helped to access additional grants from other agencies.

Enabling Partners…..

Arjun had a severe club foot and joint fingers in his right hand and lives with two siblings and parents near Suntikoppa. His elder sister discontinued her 7th class to take care of her disabled brother. The child needed surgery, but services were not available in the District Hospital. Staff of Swastha, an institution supports people with disability, motivated the parents and sought APD’s help and approached Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru for surgery. After negotiation with social work department and ortho surgeon agreed to reduce the cost from 1.5 lakhs to Rs. 30,000/-. The child had applied POP twice and surgery was done in three phases. Therapy and Appliances were ensured to the child. Mother is very happy to see her son’s independence. Swastha has readmitted the child to standard 7. The father rejoined the family and started to support the family.

To identify new potential organizations, NGOs meet were conducted in four districts with the representation of 25 organisations, as a result of this, six of them are shortlisted and further work will be planned in coming year.

REACH THROUGH RSO PARTNERS

Organisation Name 2010-11 2011-12

Samuha – Samarthya 162 480

B. D. Tatti Memorial Charitable Trust 850 635

Service Agency for Rural Women and Children (SARWC)

182 464

Cheshire Homes India Coorg (CHIC) 200 148

Gnanamandira Minority Education Society (GMET)

35 35

Helen Keller Integrated Education Society (HKIES)

45 129

The Ashrama Angavikalara Punahschethana Kendra (AAPK)

- 25

Swastha - 150

Friends Outlet - 05

Navajeevana Parents Association for Mentally Retarded Children

- 18

Total 1474 2089

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THERAPY REACH

As part of the R&D programme on Mobility, A prototype of motorized tricycle was developed and has been deployed for field testing. A multi-purpose standing frame, a non-foldable wheelchair, a supportive belt were developed that will greatly help children with Cerebral Palsy. A hi-tech below knee limb was developed during the year. The team also piloted on modifications of cars to suit the specific needs of persons with disabilities. 5 persons were supported with devices that will help their mobility and access around their homes as part of home accessibility concept.

MOBILITY REACH

Particulars 2010-11 2011-12

Caliper, Splint, Hand splint & Knee braces, Spinal Brace, K.T Brace

718 734

Mobility Aids (Crutches, walking stick, Walker, Rollator, Wheelchair & Tricycles & Petra Model

552 513

Chaithanya World Made Wheelchairs 359 370

Artificial Limbs (Lower & Upper Limbs) and Footwear’s (MCR. & others)

297 789

Repairs (Orthotic, Prosthesis & Mobility Aids)

259 320

Ramp & Railing, Commodes Special Seats, Standing Frame, Gaitors

239 209

Others (Spare parts of caliper & Materials) 1031 478

Rental 66 57

Hearing Aid 0 62

Total 3521 3532

Future of therapy and mobility includes setting up trainers’ support systems to district programme, evolve comprehensive early intervention programme, enhancing support to communication disability, develop home accessibility models, setting up therapy clinic at APD campus and securing affiliation to rehabilitation courses.

ADvOCACY SUPPORT FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES

To enhance job and entrepreneurial opportunities for PWDs, the advocacy team applied and got information

on employment and entrepreneurial through RTI. This information was used by the Career guidance and placement cell to provide appropriate inputs to candidates for their benefit.

Three federations for persons with disabilities were formed at the ward level and its members were given the required orientation and training. A vision building workshop was conducted for 23 persons. Consequently 10-12 federation members are regularly attending the monthly review meeting with the District Deputy Commissioners to present their issues and seek support.

jOB IDENTIFICATION BY GOvERNMENT OF kARNATAkA

Advocacy team submitted petitions to the State Disability Commissioner to ensure job reservation as per the Disability Act. Stay order on 501 job notifications was ensured through court which resulted in state government agreeing to issue a re-notification and providing reservation to persons with disabilities. In the process APD has been invited to be the member of State Job Identification committee

District Nodal Agency: In collaboration with State Disability Commissioner, APD took up the role of nodal agency in Chikkaballapur district, as part of this facilitated a public hearing - adalat – in the District. Thirty six cases relating to denial of education, health and employment and lack of accessibility to public buildings and government schemes were presented before the Deputy Commissioner (D.C.) and a panel of 35 officers from most of the Departments were present. Over 200 persons attended the Adalat.

As an impact of this, lift has now been installed to provide access to DC & CEO offices. Medical Boards are now empowered to issue medical certificate to person with disabilities. PWD Building installed ramps & railings. Rs. 1.5 lakhs was invested to purchase audiogram for testing hearing loss. 3% resources allocated for the development fund to provide support to people with disability in the entire districts through gram panchayats. Other major move was ensuring allocation of Rs.1.02 crore for disability sector across the districts.

At Bangalore city level, access audits were conducted at six public buildings. As a result the legislative house, Vartha Bhavan and the BMTC main bus stop have been provided with ramps and railings.

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One of the key policies of APD is to working together for promoting disability work across communities. This policy aims at long term partnership efforts between NGO’s and DPO’s with APD to ensure leadership development, programme, implementation in local levels and achieving self sustainability of disability programme. During the year APD partnered with one state level disability collective and 10 local NGO’s

DISABILITY COLLECTIvES (kARNATAkA RAjYA ANGAvIkALARA vEDIkE)

Disability collective aims at building leadership among people with disabilities through federation efforts, where in they are expected to influence positive changes by using existing structures and systems to access services to persons with disabilities.

The collective had 17 activists, four of them assume as leaders’ role and they had a total membership of 5601 people with disabilities in the three locations of Karnataka. During the year collective focused on addressing issues of malnourishment, education, therapy and mobility needs. APD spent around Rs. 15 lakhs during the year to support collective efforts.

Towards addressing malnourishment issue, disability Collective organized 35 malnutrition campaigns, together with the government and identified 715 malnourished children. 27 children were able to access government schemes, 2 received support for surgery and 45 applied for health insurance benefits. Further 4 Primary health care centres were reactivated and 9 children with disability were enrolled in Anganwadis. As a result of this engagement, collective was able to influence state level study on malnourishment with the support of other network groups, which resulted in government increasing financial allocation for nutrition supplement and organising screening programmes across the state.

In terms of ensuring right to education, 18 education campaigns were conducted together with government and community stakeholders; as a result of which 19 children with severe disabilities accessed home based education and 89 were admitted to main stream schools.

21 new children’s collectives were formed in conjunction with school authorities through whom 336 children were sensitized on disability, inclusion and child rights. 620 persons were able to access government social security schemes.

Towards ensuring therapy support, 77 children with disabilities were provided therapeutic assessments and 15 children aids and appliances. 5 children with disability received surgical support. The Disability Collective together with the BRC jointly established 153 weekly therapy centres and supported 240 children’s to receive therapy.

SPINAL INjURY ASSOCIATION (SIA)

SIA works towards ensuring the leadership and building lobbying group to access services from the government. During the year membership of SIA has increased to 139. Through SIA’s lobby with Health Dept, got government order for PSCIs to get free medical Aid was issued. Based on SIA’s progress, state disability commissioner nominated SIA as the Nodal Agency for Ramnagara Dist. Two persons got “Achiever Award” for their best performance in sports.

SIA published 2000 copies of calendar to raise awareness and organised 11 meetings at different levels. Seven members participated in the Special Olympics Bharath International level Sports meet at Chennai and in the state level wheel chair games at Bangalore and two members won prizes.

Grievance Meetings: To ensure district administration support at Bangalore city, State Disability Collective

Working

Together

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