Asha Niketan Chennai has been working with people with Intellectual disabilities (known as Core-members) for the last 45 years to restore their dignity and rights by providing them with
home and supporting them with their rehabilitation/ care and development. Through our
residential program, we provide privacy, good health and overall well-being with caring, lasting
relationships and peer friendships. Asha Niketan, Chennai also reaches out to people with
intellectually disability living nearby and who cannot be accommodated into our residential
program by providing them with therapeutic activities, and counseling for their family
members.
The present lockdown due to COVID-19 crisis has affected disproportionately persons with
disabilities in comparison to non-disabled persons. The containment measures such as social
distancing and self-isolation are very difficult for our core-members as they rely on the support
of care-giver assistants to cook, eat, bathe, and dress. With the limited caregiver assistants we
are helping persons with disabilities to adapt and cope with the situation.
Asha Niketan Chennai depends on support and help provided by individual benefactors to
support their day to day operational costs but due to lockdown such support has become
difficult. Hence raising money to buy food, medicine, personal effects, and much-needed
corona- prevention kit has become a challenge.
Besides due to lockdown, the families of persons with disabilities who rely on their daily wages
find themselves without the support which leaves them at high risk of starvation and health.
Asha Niketan Chennai has redefined its outreach program to support these families with food
supplies, medicine and other in-kind support to reduce the risk of falling into greater
vulnerability and poverty.
We earnestly look forward to your support and contribution to help people with disabilities
and their families to wade through these difficult times.
“Alone we can do so little but together we can do so much”-Helen Keller
Send Donations And Funds to :-
Local Bank : IDBI Bank
Address : Plot No 1, 1st Main Road Raja Nagar, Neelankari Chennai 600041
Account Name : FMR India Asha Niketan
Account No : 1143104000061436
IFSC Code : IBKL0001143
For Foreign Donations from outside India, please click on the following link
https://www.larche.org/en/donate
