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India
Director: Raghavan Ramachandran (Chandru)
Programme start: 1987
Population: 1,134m
% living on less than US$1 a day: 34%
Adult life expectancy at birth: 64 years
In India ADD’s work is focussed in rural areas of the four states of south India, working directly in three projects in Pudukottai district in Tamil Nadu; in Kolar district in Karnataka and Mahboobnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. These projects cover 1,776 villages reaching approximately 20,0000 disabled people. Forty percent of the beneficiaries are disabled women, who are active members of the self-help groups.
ADD India also works with other organisations giving their staff training in disability awareness and support in implementing it in their own projects.
In the last few years, there has been a major growth in the rights based, inclusive approach to community based rehabilitation. For disabled people being able to access adequate services required for rehabilitation is important to their empowerment. The Indian government invites ADD and other international organisations to provide basic services to compliment their effort, especially in places where these are not available.
ADD India is active at State level in advocating for policies with an inclusive approach and ensuring their implementation and is invited by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, government of India to input to discussions at the planning stage.
Download ADD India's 2006 - 2007 Annual Review (3.64MB pdf)
Download ADD India's 2005 - 2006 Annual Review (6.02MB pdf)
Disabled children invited to perform at official International Disability Day celebrations by the government
Venkatasamy works as a teacher in a government school in Karnataka. He got this job under the reservation for disabled persons. He is the leader of his village sangha and takes a lot of initiative in bringing changes in the life of the disabled persons.
Awareness programme for schoolchildren in Tamil Nadu.