About Inspiration

Aims and Objectives

• To establish, operate & manage centres/schools for mentally deficient children, persons and slow learners.
• To eliminate the superstitious beliefs and stigmas attached to the mentally retarded persons so that they be rehabilitated in society.
• To develop awareness in youth about the hazards and reasons which may lead to mental retardation, to encourage investigation of the causes of mental retardation and promote preventive and remedial measures.
• To promote pre-vocational and vocational training, sheltered workshops and employment facilities for the mentally retarded.
• To encourage the establishment of integrated set-ups and centres for “learning disabled children” and ultimately setting up a whole village for the mentally retarded where they can have their own facilities like schools, post office, banks etc.

Principles and Background

• 'Inspiration' believes that every human being should be viewed from a humanitarian angle, having the right to live a life of dignity, in the least restrictive environment, with a right to make his/her own choices and participate actively in decision making.
• ‘Inspiration’ aims at upliftment of the poor & oppressed, the destitute and the neglected and those who have been gravely psychologically affected by the tensions of modern life. Their rehabilitation and bringing them back to mainstream of life is our target.
  We aim to educate parents and families of the disabled in providing an encouraging, nurturing environment for the disabled children, their brothers and sisters.
• For this we have done a number of programmes to create awareness among the public, on the causes of developmental disability and possible preventive measures, thus undermining superstitions and a mis-guided religious mindset, and to consequently building a scientific outlook on the problem.
• Focusing on undesirable attitude and rejection of the disabled, is part of our advocacy work.

Future Plans

• With the introduction of NATIONAL TRUST ACT and the establishment of fully functional NATIONAL TRUST, Inspiration aims at establishment of the RESPITE CARE AND RECREATIONAL CENTRE, which is the prime need of parents and children. Our target is to provide quality services, especially for those in society belonging to the low-income group who are generally refused services in other schools. Inspiration has not only been working with the special child in isolation. It has targeted on “Empowerment of the Mother”, or the women of the house. It is generally seen, that in a society where the women are suppressed , it has a strong and negative repercussion on the child; doubly so, if that child is one with special needs. So to ensure the rehabilitation of the special children, INSPIRATION has gone one step ahead in training and sensitization of the parents and the siblings.
• The need to develop the “Group Living” concept has already been felt, and INSPIRATION has started the Respite Care for this purpose. The need to address the problem of “What will happen, when we are no more” has been often discussed in seminars and workshops, but no concrete step has yet been taken up by any organization. This problem has to be addressed, specially so, when we address challenging problems such as in autistics, multiple handicaps and other associated problems.
• Inspiration’s future plans are to address the specific problem in bringing together the families in small groups, where the age and specific needs of the children could be similar, so that the experiences of the mother/parent could be a strong support to another needy families.
• A Group Home is proposed to be established in Dehra Dun shortly, where training of special children will be trained along with parents, according to different packages.. & different time frames according to need/choice of families.