Nav Prerna

Navprerna a voluntary organization registered in March 2002 strives for the rehabilitation and development of persons with disability. It attempts to provide them with efficient and accountable programs of medical, educational and vocational rehabilitation. The purpose of such rehabilitative services is to prepare them for gainful employment consistent with their strengths, abilities, and capabilities.

The organization carries out its activities under the collective wisdom of persons with disabilities, rehab and management professionals. It has been made mandatory that there shall be at least 50% representation of PWDs at all levels in the organization. Thus ensuring their stake in the organization. Navprerna strongly believes in the practice and propagates inclusion of PWDs by design not by right or fight.

Vision:

Our vision is a world where persons with disability can exercise their rights to lead life with dignity.

Mission:

To enhance the purchasing capacity of persons with disability and to create opportunities for them leading to their inclusion in the mainstream society.

Objectives:

• To activate existing infrastructure for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in their own communities and create enabling environment for empowering them selves.
• To create awareness on the rights of persons with disabilities and at a more basic level, on the fact that they can lead their lives without being a liability to the community
• To promote the idea and practice of inclusive livelihood for persons with disability among all potential employers
• To promote people centered advocacy in order to implement disability act 1995 with regard to disability and development.
• To build the capacity of managers, middle level functionaries and grass root level workers of NGOs, community, persons with disability, principle care givers, in order to understand the issues of disability from the development prospective.
• To build and promote disability net works in the implementing district in order to raise and address the issues concerning persons with disability collectively. To empower disabled people and organisations and to sensitise other concerned sectors through systematic information dissemination on disability related issues like legislations, relevant policies, research findings and current developments.
• To closely monitor and jointly lobby with the governments, corporates and other allied sectors to advocate the adoption and implementation of appropriate policies /legislations.

Activities: Navprerna is carrying out the following activities to fulfill its objectives:

1. Capacity building: Building the capacity of individuals, organizations, CBOs, and Government in order to build an inclusive society through sensitization, training, exposure, field work, and information dissemination.
2. Influencing and people centered advocacy: Influencing Small and medium enterprises, Government and other NGOs to integrate disability with development initiatives and promoting the people centered advocacy to address the issues of persons with disability and have pro disability policies. As a result of our efforts and campaign the district administration was forced to implement the legislation and set up disabled friend group as an advisory board to the administration for the implementation of the legislation.
3. Information dissemination: Information dissemination on the rights and potentials of persons with disability through the sensitisation and training program particularly for the industrialist and school and university students have been carried out in the Northern states of India. Publication and training material development: Publishing the training manuals, leaflets and other IEC material regarding the primary rehabilitation and development of persons with disability.
4. Networking and Linkages: Establishing linkages with International NGOs, NGOs, Community Based Organisations, Schools, universities, Small and medium enterprises associations' resource persons and development professionals in order to address the issues collectively.
5. Direct services: Navprerna since December 2003 have supported 107 persons with disability to obtain meaningful employment in the private industries located in the National capital region. We have also supported 933 persons with disability to have access to and benefit from the Govermental scheme.

After evaluating the results at the end of two years of its inception, Navprerna has now been making efforts to bring about a change in the employment scenario with regard to its client group. The prime focus is on career counseling, referral to vocational training, workshops on motivation, work behavior conflict management, and most importantly performance that meets the needs of the industries. We also organize symposium cum expositions in partnership with SMEs industrial associations with the aim to sensitize their members that providing employment to PWDs is a business proposition.

As the first step in this direction, Navprerna, in association with IAMA Ghaziabad, SAO, PIC and BCF, organized a symposium cum exposition for the industrialists of Ghaziabad on 10th January 2005. The objective of the above mentioned symposium was to create the employment opportunities for persons with disability in the industries of Ghaziabad. More than 50 industrialists attended this programme. As a result some of them made commitment on the spot that they would hire PWDs in their industries without any discrimination or prejudices.

On 30th July a new committee of PWDs has been elected during an excursion at Appughar. This committee shall be responsible for planning, implementing and most importantly monitoring the activities of Navprerna for the year 2006 - 07.

Future plans

In this year Nav Prerna shall work to create employment for 150 PWDs in the small and medium industries in Ghaziabad and NOIDA. Navprerna shall also strive for creating opportunities for 30 PWDs in the MNCs. The organisation is also working towards setting up a training centre where PWDs would be imparted training to work as the IT professional or call operator.

The organization is trying to increase the self-confidence, esteem and social perception of persons with disabilities and also brush up their entrepreneurial skills. In the long run it will increase their individual financial growth leading to improved rural economy and will change their status from employees to employers.

For more details please contact:
Mr Baldev Gulati
(m) 9811720845
E-mail: nav_prerna@hotmail.com

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