Asha/Anganwadi trainings by Hope Disability Centre

She Hope Society for Women Entrepreneurs has been conducting awareness programmes about various aspects of disability among Asha/ Anganwadi workers for many years. This is to enhance their capacity to empower persons with disabilities to live meaningful and productive lives.

Funded by our donors, Hope Society has conducted these trainings in all its intervention areas as part of a project. These trainings are conducted with the support of the health department that provides workers for these trainings.

As part of the project, Asha/Angawadi training programs were conducted in four districts namely Baramulla, Kupwara, Ganderbal and Poonch. These trainings are conducted by our technical team. These trainings focus on early identification, prevention, rights & entitlements, services and referrals for persons with special needs. A total of 55 Asha workers and 30 Anganwadi workers attended these trainings. 

These trainings are an excellent tool for identifying disabilities at an earlier stage. Even minor deformities if left untreated could become permanent disabilities.

Similarly, educating and informing persons with disabilities about welfare schemes gives them empowerment.

Alongside these trainings, two Local Traditional Professional trainings were also conducted. These trainings are conducted with the objective of enhancing the capacities of LTP so that our beneficiaries who earlier in case of minor repairs of their aids and appliances had to travel to our main office for fixing them, get such services in their respective villages now, thus sparing them the trouble of travelling long distance to our office and also saving the traveling expenses of poor beneficiaries.

Local Traditional Professionals include cobblers, carpenters, and cycling mechanics. About 18 workers participated in these trainings.