To undertake various initiatives to protect the vulnerable in the community
Sahrudaya has been implementing various programs for the vulnerable sections in the society under the universal norms of community based rehabilitation matrix envisaged by world health organization. With the support of various stakeholders and funding agencies in the world, Sahrudaya is executing different community oriented projects in order to help the needy. We eepresent a chain of various approaches and it reaches to vulnerable.
With the support of the CHAI-LF, Sahrudaya is implementing a project named rehabilitation of the children and youth with disabilities in order to improve their quality of life through appropriate support and rehabilitation services. Under this program, we are covering more than 2000 differently abled persons in the districts of Thrissur, Ernakulam, Alappuzha and Ernakulam. Sahrudaya with the support of various agencies, addresses the living conditions of disabled and reducing the level of disability by rehabilitate them.
Mainstreaming of the persons with disabilities is one of prime areas of focus of Sahrudaya. More than a decade, Sahrudaya has facilitated community based rehabilitation programs is 35 gramaPanchayaths within its operational area.
Sahrudaya is implementing rehabilitation program for the people with mental illness for the last one and a half decade. The program is named as SnehaMental Health program. There are many persons with mental illness in our society and often they are denied of their basic human rights, especially the right to access treatment, rehabilitation and appropriate mental health care. Nearly 200 families are supported for the rehabilitation of the mentally persons with regular medical support.