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ealth

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aking homes, including toilets, accessible to all

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Building strength and conditioning at the Rehab Institute

W

ith a firm belief that no one must be

le behind, APD strives to fulfill important

needs of PWDs like creating a barrier-

free environment in educational facilities,

public places and enhancing accessible

transportation across India. Besides this,

APD creates peer trainers across India to

support the rehabilitation and empowerment

of PWDs and strengthening the ecosystem

through awareness, capacity building and

sensitization of various stakeholders in the

community for sustainability.

APD’s Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

programme is unique as it addresses not

just the physical but the psychological,

social, vocational and sports/recreational

issues through comprehensive

rehabilitation, which the government

and other institutions do not offer. ‘We

follow an individual family service plan

with need-based assessment, goal setting

and intervention plans that is delivered

through five levels of services from intense

support to tele-rehabilitation, with three

approaches: center-based, camp-based and

home based,’ says Dr. N.S. Senthil Kumar,

COO and Executive Director, APD.

HCL Grant Project Approach:

T

o assure

life with equity, dignity and justice for

socio-economically challenged people with

spinal cord injury through better health,

rehabilitation services, employment and

reduction in caregiver’s burden

HCL Grant Project Title:

C

ot to Community

– A Comprehensive Rehabilitation Approach

for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury

Beneficiaries:

2,962 persons with spinal cord

injury and 2,962 caregivers

Location:

14,885 v

illages in Karnataka