District Disability Rehabilitation Center

The inability of the disable persons to aptly match to the changing situations in their family circle and communities as well as their lack of proper scope for esteemed survival are some of the basic reasons that inspired the organization to plan for such an endeavor. It focuses on participatory development of those differently able persons with scope for building an environment of enabling alongside a process of social inclusion and mainstreaming.
Keeping in view the above situation, the organization has set up one District Disability Rehabilitation Centre at Old DHH building, Dhenkanal and catering the basic needs of the people with disability and their family members and community on their rights, welfare schemes of central and state government in favour of PwDs to bring them into mainstream of society to participate & enjoy gain from development initiatives at local level. The program has been started in February 2021 with formal inauguration by the Collector and District Magistrate in the presence of district level officers.
The organisation has engaged both technical and supportive staff in the program and provided the equipment`s to the Centre for the benefit of the PwDs with due facilities. The Centre is now full-fledged functional and rendering the services and facilities to the needy PwDs in a single window system with Orthopaedic, Physiotherapy, Hearing Impaired & Speech practice and welfare wings. Some of the detailed actions of the Centre are :
- Survey & identification of persons with disabilities through camp approach
- facilitation of disability certificate, bus passes and other concession/facilities for persons with disabilities; assisting in the issue of Unique Disability Identity Card (UDID) to divyangjan in the District;
- Awareness Generation for encouraging and enhancing prevention of disabilities, early detection and intervention
- Early Intervention and facilitating Insurance Schemes launched by the National Trust/Department for Divyangjan
- Assessment of need of assistive devices, provision/fitment of assistive devices, follow up/repair of assistive devices
- Therapeutic Services e.g. Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy etc.
- Referral and arrangement of surgical correction through Govt. & Charitable institutes
- Arrangement of loans for self-employment, through banks & other financial institutions
- Counseling of persons with disabilities, their parents & family members