Educational Project
Workshop on Birds for Children with Multiple Disabilities
Project Summary
Tatsat FoundationTM in collaboration with Shubham Housing Finance organised a workshop on birds for children with visual impairment and multiple disabilities at Saksham Trust, Noida, on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. The chief guest of the workshop was the Nest Man of India, Rakesh Khatri, who has been working in the field of environment conservation for the past two decades and has confidence that artificial nests can help birds in sustaining themselves in cities.
The workshop was a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative of Shubham Housing Finance, a leader in providing housing finance solutions to those with informal incomes.
Beneficiaries
A total of 20 students with visual impairment and multiple disabilities in the age group of 8 to 20 years of Saksham Trust, Noida.
Project Aim
It trained the students with disabilities about different types of birds, their beak structures and claws with the help of tactile diagrams and besides their calls using audio cues. Then they were taught how to build nests with the use of eco-friendly material that can help them survive in mega cities.
For making nests, Mr. Khatri provided them with nest-making kits. The participants enjoyed learning about the unique conservation activity from the world-renowned conservator.
Project Outcome / Output
- Inclusive Education - Knowledge enhancement of students with disabilities by making them aware about the different types of birds and to identify them through their physical features.
- Hands on training
- Encourage students to build homes for birds.
- Encourage students to help birds to survive in mega cities.
Long-term outcome
- To sensitise children about the environment and the habitat eco-system of birds
- Give children with visual impairment and multiple disabilities an immersive learning experience.
- More such workshops will be conducted for children with disabilities for building awareness about the environment and conservation.
- Engagement with various stakeholders
EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
Content Generation in Braille for Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)
Capacity building for Persons with Disability (PwDs) for IGPR&GVS public officials and ensuring greater accessibility and inclusivity of people with disabilities (PwD).
Project Summary
The objective of this project is to develop content in accessible format for public officials with disabilities working with the IGPR&GVS and Rural Development departments in accessible format. This includes assimilating, compiling, and curating content that is used by the departments’ officials in their day-to-day work in Braille, audio books and sign language formats. The mandate of this project is to improve and enhance accessibility and promote inclusivity for PwDs.
Beneficiaries
Public officials (PwDs) of Panchayati Raj Institutions and Department of Rural Development.
Project Aim
To build capacity for PwDs across IGPR&GVS cadre strength, enabling them to perform their duties and tasks with full participation.
Project Outcome / Output
- Capacity building among regional public officials (PwDs).
- Developing implementation strategies for a resource centre for PwDs.
- Development of training material for PwDs.
- Build a knowledge platform with regular updates.
Developing Education Solutions
for Social Sector
Status: Ongoing
With Corporate Social Responsibly becoming mandatory in India under the Companies Act, 2013, the social sector is witnessing rapid expansion. The aim of this project is to streamline and formalise Social Welfare education in India by offering a structured curriculum, providing domain training and certification to new entrants who want to make a career in this growing sector as well as certifying the existing work force.
The visionary project also aims to develop a framework for licensing of Social Welfare professionals in India, which is marked by a huge unorganised workforce that often leads to inefficient implementation and wastage of resources. The objectives of this project is to create an education framework in association with the best national and international education institutions, specialising in the field of social welfare education. This project intends to create 10 key skill development programmes for which it will create a curriculum that will be become a standard course for graduates and post-graduate certification programmes. Another critical aim of this programme is to establish Centres of Excellence in partnership with reputed universities across India that will offer higher certification courses.
