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Social Project Report On

Activities carried out at Blind Peoples Association (India) (

Project Report Submitted in Partion Fulfillment of award of MBA Degree

Project Guide
Prof. Prakash M. Chawla

Submitted By
Dilip Chandnani(12) Rakesh Parmar(54 ) Jaykishan Limbad(35) Krutika Havnurkar(23)

Submitted To

S. K. Patel Institute of Management and Computer Studies (A Constituent of Kadi Sarva Vishwa Vidhyalaya) Gandhinagar, India January 2011

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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the students of MBA 1st year , S. K. Pateal Institute of Management and Computer Studies have submitted his social Project titled
AT BLIND PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION
(INDIA)

ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT

in the Year 2010-2011 in partial fulfillment

of Kadi Sarva Vishwa Vidhyalaya requirements for award of the title of Master of Business Administration.

Prof.Sonu V. Gupta Director

Prof.Bipin Valera Coordinator

Prof. Prakash M. Chawla Project Guide

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DECLARATION
We, hereby, declare that the social Project titled, ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT AT BLIND
PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION (INDIA)

is original to the best of our knowledge and has not been

published elsewhere. This is for the purpose of partial fulfillment of KadiSarva Vishwa Vidhyalaya requirements for award of the title of Master of Business Administration, only.

Name Dilip Chandnani (12) Krutika Havnurkar(23) Jaykishan Limbad(35) Rakesh Parmar(54)

Signature

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PREFACE
In a span of the time, few achievements of notes have been the product individual effort. Instead, they have been accomplished through the efforts of many. Making a social project on Blind Peoples Association is a great pleasure. This project is a humble attempt to sketch the various important aspects of society. We have different NGOs but we selected Blind Peoples Association because this is a famous NGO in Ahmedabad and it is doing excellent work for Blind, deaf and dumb and handicapped. In this project we have learnt how the NGOs work for society and which people helped them in this work. We also learned that how people contribute in social work out of their daily routine work and what should be our role and responsibility for empowering our society. We got aware a lot for our social responsibility by doing this project.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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First we would like to thank our honorable Director Prof. Sonu Gupta for introducing this new concept of social project and giving us a chance to do project on NGO. We are also thankful to Prof. Prakash Chawla excellent guidance. We are also thankful to Mr. Paritosh Dave who helped us a lot in our project on Blind People Association and provided us with all the required data of the N.G.O. The project would never have been successful without co-operation and group effort of each team member. Finally how can we forget the support of the almighty and our most beloved parents for their grace & blessings in the same successfully.

INDEX

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Executive summary Introduction NGO Profile

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Financial performance Activities Dontion findings and conclusions Bibliography

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The aim of this project was to bring us to realize the social responsibility towards the world we live in and study how the NGO works itself into serving the society. Where the finance comes from, how it is allocated, how is it managed, how to run the organization as compared to a profit-oriented organization.

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This report talks about the key activities of the foundation, from where it began and what it does on a daily basis. And how it gets the financial assistant and promotes their activities so that the other people get to know about the NGO.

INTRODUCTION
In the last five decades of its existence, the Blind Peoples Association (BPA) at Ahmedabad, India, has emerged as an internationally renowned voluntary organization for the blind and people with other disabilities. It has a number of innovative programs, such as schools, a national rehabilitation engineering institute, a computer training center, an electronics training center, a bakery and food products division for disabled women, and a number of vocational courses. It also provides an employment and placement
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service, runs urban and community-based programs for rehabilitation of the aged and disabled, and provides parental counseling and training.

The BPA tends to look at the abilities of the disabled and the blind and consider them as differently abled and important members of society. This philosophy has helped in training and assisting the differently abled to become self-reliant, which contributes to their socioeconomic rehabilitation and empowers them to lead a near-normal life.

HISTORY
The BPA began in 1954 in Ahmedabad as the Blind Mens Association (BMA), a recreation club for the blind started with the efforts of a few blind persons, including Mr. Jagdish Patel. Mr. Patel lost his eyesight in early childhood, as a result of meningitis. However, he grew up to become an approved physiotherapist in a leading hospital, and a leading philanthropist dedicated to promoting self-reliance among the blind.

In 1998, the name of the Blind Mens Association was changed to the Blind Peoples Association, because the name BMA led many people to believe wrongly that its
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activities and services were confined just to men. However, the name Blind Peoples Association is also a misnomer, as BPA works for and provides services to people with different kinds of disabilities. Besides the blind, the organization works for the deaf, the mentally retarded, the orthopedically impaired, the mentally ill, the aged, and other groups. It also has been working for the multiple-disabled since 1989. BPA works to rehabilitate disabled people irrespective of their class and background. However, around 80 percent of the people supported by BPA belong to socially and economically disadvantaged classes, because their disabilities usually are a result of lack of medical prevention and care at an early age. Dedicated philanthropists, social workers, and professionals run BPA. Dr. Bhushan Punani, a management graduate, is now heading the organization.

MISSON
Promoting comprehensive rehabilitation of persons with all categories of disabilities through education, training, employ-ment, community based rehabilitation, integrated education, research, publications, human resource development and other innovative means.

WORKING FOR THE BLIND, THE DEAF, THE MENTALLY RETARDED, THE ORTHOPAEDICALLY IMPAIRED, THE MENTALLY ILL, THE MULTIPLY DISABLED, THE AGED. . . .

Objectives
to provide services for persons from all categories of disabilities. to empower and encourage the disabled to be self-reliant. In the field of human resource development and research.

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Education, Technical Education, Professional Training for the Disabled- Production training in simulated industrial settings. Production and free distribution of assistive devices like crutches, calipers, wheelchairs, mobility devices etc. Prevention of blindness and disability like cataract and polio surgery. Services for the aged in the slums of Ahmedabad. Services for the mentally retarded, mentally ill. Services for the multiply disabled and deaf blind. Community based rehabilitation services for the disabled in villages all over Gujarat. Education of disabled children with normal children all over Gujarat.

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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BPA operates a secondary school, a higher secondary school, a school of physiotherapy, and a technical school. It has educated around 300 blind adults to a higher secondary level.

BPA has implemented integrated education programs all over Gujarat, where all types of disabled and multiple-handicapped students study together with normal children. The physiotherapy school at BPA is the only government-recognized school of its kind in India. The Technical School for the Blind offers a one-year government-recognized certificate course in professions such as motor-rewinding, general mechanics, weaving, carpentry, and canning. The course is offered to 70 blind trainees each year. The Computer Training Centre for the Blind and Disabled offers a six-month course in Basic and Dbase. The physiotherapy school and other training centers usually have students from Gujarat, but there are some students from other Indian states too.

BPA also runs a bakery and food products division for disabled women, an electronics training center for the blind and disabled, a receptionist and telephone operating course, an English stenography course for the blind and disabled, and training centers for adult and multi-category handicapped.

Besides service delivery at the state level, BPA offers capacity-building programs ranging from one-hour orientations to three-month training programs at the national and
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international levels. Participants in such programs may or may not have a disability, but they work for the development of people with disabilities. Such programs are usually offered to interested voluntary organizations operating in other states or countries. For instance, persons working at the managerial level in voluntary organizations in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka attended a training program in February 2003.

PLACEMENT
BPA maintains regular contact with various government departments for the placement of its trainees. BPA helps disabled people in taking out loans and getting the benefit of microfinance schemes. It also provides training for railway recruitment, examinations for government jobs, and entrepreneurship development.

AID AND REHABILITATION

BPA provides help to the mentally retarded, mentally ill, multiply disabled, deaf, blind, and aged in the slums of Ahmedabad. It works for the prevention of blindness and disability through eye camps and surgery for cataracts and polio, and through the manufacture and free distribution of supportive devices, such as crutches and wheelchairs. BPA also provides parental counseling and training. In addition, it trains the disabled to perform their daily activities without the help of others

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SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES

SHRI K.N.DESAI ADULT TRAINING SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND Supported by Department of Social Justice & Empowerment Primary education up to 7 Standard to adult blind

MINNIE CAMA SECONDARY & HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND Supported by Department of Education. Recognized by the Board of Secondary Education

RAJESH MEHTA TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND Supported by Department OF Employment Manpower & Training One-year certificate course in General Mechanics, Motor Rewinding, Canning, Carpentry and Weaving

NANDINI RAMESH GANDHI SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY Suported by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment 27 Studants admitted from all over India for this two-year course recognized by Higher Secondary Education Board

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NANDINI RAMESH GANDHI SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY Suported by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment 27 Studants admitted from all over India for this two-year course recognized by Higher Secondary Education Board

LIONS METROPOLITAN SHAKRIBEN MANGALDAS MUSIC SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND Training in music up to Shiksha visharad Recognized by Akhil Bhartiya Gandharva Mahavidyalay, Miraj

JOB ORIENTED COURSES

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INDUSTRIAL TRAINING INSTITUTE Recognized Course: Recognized by Department of Employment & Training under SCVT pattern, a total of 558 disabled students benefited

CAMA COMPUTER TRAINING CENTRE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED Supported by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Well equipped with computer, printer, voice synthesizer , special software for the visually impaired, reading edge and a Braille computer. DAHIBEN STENOGRAPHY COURSE FOR THE BLIND Supported by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Job oriented training in English & Gujarati typing and shorthand SHIRIN CYRUS DALAL TELEPHONE OPERATING & RECEPTIONIST COURSE Supported by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Training on operation of PBX, EAPBX & Key phones ARTI MRUGESH DOCTOR HAIR & SKIN CARE CENTRE Training in Hair & skin Care to disabled girls

REHABILITATION & INTERVENTION CENTRES

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CHANDRIKABEN N.KINARIWALA MENTAL HYGIENE CLINIC Supported by Department of Social Defence Training 0f 27 children with Mental Retardation in Independent living skills orientation of parents 12 RATANLAL LALLUBHAI CENTRE FOR THE MULTI HANDICAPPED Supported by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. Intensive service to 23 children with visual impairment and multiple disabilities. Established 5 satellite Centers at Jamnagar, Dahod, Sayla, Viramgam, Kapadwanj and

CHANDRIKABEN N.KINARIWALA UNIT FOR THE DEAFBLIND Supported by Sense International India and Sense International UK. Identified 53 deafblind persons with 13 of Them being provided direct services at the centre. The unit has established one Ankur Centre at Idar and 2 CBR projects

PRE -VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE FOR SEVERELY DISABLED, SUMERU COMPLEX Supported by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. Training of 35 children with severe disabilities in independent living skills and orientation of parents.

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JAGDISH PATEL & BHADRA SATIA EARLY INTERVENTION CENTRE FOR CHILDREN WITH MULTIPLE DISABILITIES, SAMARPANVASTRAPUR Supported by : Hilton/Perkins International Programme. Assessment, Intervention, speech therapy, Physiotherapy and need based interventions to infants from birth to 7 years

BPA-MSM NAAZ SAMARTH SCHEME RESPITE CARE CENTRE FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM, CEREBRAL PALSY, MENTAL RETARDATION AND MULTIPLE DISABILITIES Supported by National Trust, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. 30 children in residential surrounding in idyllic 35 acre campus

EMPLOYMENT
As a result of BPAs efforts, the number of blind music teachers increased considerably
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in schools supported by the government, and blind subject teachers also were appointed in such schools. Later, placements were made for physiotherapists (class III and IV positions) in the Bank of India and in the Post and Telegraph Department.

Since the establishment of BPAs employment cell in 1976, around 2,500 disabled people have found employment. This number includes 600 teachers, 200 packing and stamping department workers, and 200 typists and laborers. In addition, some 700 persons are employed as lecturers, lower-division clerks, motor-rewinding mechanics, mechanical operators, telephone operators, and so forth. Some of these disabled people are also working as tour and transport operators, dairy farmers, and cycle repairers. As selfemployed persons, the disabled operate more than 360 telephone booths across Gujarat, and they also run milk booths, shops, canteens, and other small businesses.

MEDIA

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FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION

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We have found that the organization is doing really great work by helping and providing the education to the blind people and giving opportunity to handicapped people to earn and compete others. The organization also provides the vocational training to handicapped and blind people. We have seen that how the blind people work on computers and make themselves aware about the world. We have also seen that how they have many volunteers who are working for them voluntarily and serve the people. The organization is having a separate department to give the employment to the blind and handicapped people who are working in banks, call centers and other retail stores.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.bpaindia.org/mission.htm

http://www.bpaindia.org/Activities.htm

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http://www.bpaindia.org/Newsletter.htm

http://www.bpaindia.org/Studies%20on%20BPA.htm

http://www.senseintindia.org/htmls/bpa_ahm.html

http://www.giveindia.org/m-31-blind-peoples-association-india.aspx

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