Provision Asia
A well known established NGO that works with the physically challenged to provide prosthesis and skills training. Gathering Together raises funding for staff. Gathering Together has been invited to provide guidance to help leadership and staff be more efficient and expand the work to Africa.
Vocational training is provided for the beneficiaries.
Differently Special
What does a young mother do, when her son, at three years is still unable to hold a morsel of food to eat?
Sheela, a humble tailor, was flooded with despair. Was there no hope for her differently abled son, Joshua? She felt paralyzed by poverty, whose tendrils had wrapped themselves over her. She desired to give the best for her son. But, schools for children like him were exorbitantly expensive. Sheela’s husband, an alcoholic and a wife beater, gave no financial support.
Sheela’s dreams for her child were reignited when she heard of ProVISION ASIA. The NGO gave her child admission in their school, Mitra, for differently abled children. The management is sensitive to the needs of these children. They understand the challenges parents face to take their children who are physically unable to control their bodies to walk or do any other activity of daily living. The school provides transportation for their children as well as nutritious food in the form of breakfast, lunch and snacks. Sheela was able to send her son to school because all his needs are cared for holistically, understanding her financial situation.
Joshua was assessed by his teachers. He was patiently taught to read and write, he could recite simple rhymes and do simple arithmetic. He was taught with much patience to eat by himself, and take care of his personal needs. After three years Joshua was ready to go to a school for normal children. ProVISION ASIA has raised support for his tuition fees. Joshua is well integrated into the school.
Sheela is one happy mother.
ProVISION ASIA is a NGO based in Bangalore with a special focus on children and adults with special needs.
The following programs are run by them:-
- Mitra: A school for special children there are currently 13 children enrolled in this school which has 3 teachers and one helper to look after them.
- Physiotherapy Clinic: The children from Mitra are given physiotherapy daily. In addition the clinic provides physiotherapy for children and adults with special needs, who come from the nearby areas.
- Madhu Diabetic Clinic: This is funded by Metronics and is aimed to equip and enable the specially challenged who are diabetic, to understand what diabetics is and live healthy lives. The clinic also monitors the sugar levels and provides the required medication.
- ProVISION ASIA Wheel Chair Unit: Highly specialized, used wheel chairs, are received from Joni and Friends, a ministry begun by Joni Eareckson Tada. Wheel chairs are shipped and received by ProVISION Asia. These are used wheel chairs. The wheel chairs are sent to Bangalore Central Prison, where a team of prisoners have been trained to repair and restore the used wheel chairs. Once they are done the wheel chairs look as good as new. These are distributed to those in need.
- Play Group: This is a support group for the specially challenged which meet every 2nd Saturday at a well known park in Bangalore.
- Friends Circle: Support group of parents who meet once in two months.
- Community Interventions: ProVISION ASIA bridges the gap between eligible beneficiaries and government services. ProVISION ASIA creates awareness amongst eligible government target groups, such as people living below the poverty line, people who are differently abled, minorities, scheduled castes and tribes etc, for whom government schemes are available to provide relief or benefits. ProVISION ASIA empowers people below the poverty line to apply for ration cards, unique identity cards (Aadhar card), get funds for housing and other similar government schemes for the poor. Widows are empowered to get pension. Girls at the time of marriage are given a certain amount of money from the government, and many other schemes as is applicable. The differently abled are helped to get jobs, wheel chairs, school reservations etc.
