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Help Us Provide for Hearing Impaired Children
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    SUCHITA BANSOD
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    This fundraiser will benefit

    Ekvira Multipurpose Foundation

    from Akola, Maharashtra

Tax benefits for INR donations will be issued by EKVIRA MULTIPURPOSE FOUNDATION

GIVE EVERY HEARING IMPAIRED CHILD CHANCE TO LISTEN, LEARN AND SPEAK,
                                             THUS,
                              ENABLING HIM TO BE AN ACTIVE PART OF OUR ESSENTIALLY, HEARING AND SPEAKING WORLD!
I suchita Bansod founded Ekvira multipurpose foundation, Akola a charitable trust since 2008.   I could fairly assert this as it was own testimony as a mother of a hearing impaired child. After overcoming my son’s disability, I continue to render services for other hearing impaired children by creating awareness and offering training to hearing impaired kids since last 12 years.
Instead of teaching sign language to the hearing impaired children, they are given training with innovative oral-aural method and enable them to listen, learn and speak. Four out of every thousand of new born babies may have hearing loss and parents are helpless because of proper guidance and one stop facilities.Our foundation is established in 2007 & registered under society registration act 1860 & Bombay public trust act 1950 with Asst. charity commissioner, Akola, also registered ’ u/s 12 AA and 80 G of income tax act 1961. we runs’ BALVIKAS KENDRA’ and  BALVIKAS SPECIAL ORAL AURAL SCHOOL for hearing impaired children ,A rehab centre, speech hearing language training  & parent training of young hearing impaired under single roof.
The program is constructed to bring them in to hearing & speaking world & to enable them to get education in normal school with normal child at primary level.
Involving Parent’s as an equal partner in the daily activity. In addition to that, for looked late hearing impaired child general school readiness of H I children we run BALVIKAS SPECIAL PRIMERY ORAL AURAL SCHOOL, un-aided special primary school, non-residential. Above both the programs are un-aided and approved by commissioner of persons with disability of government of Maharashtra.
Government financial support is none.
Organizational Description
Our foundation conducts all relevant activities for the oral-aural rehabilitation of young age hearing impaired child, survey, parent counselling , guidance and training, social awareness program, AVT therapy, speech- hearing- language training, pre-schooling, primary schooling, general school readiness and integration, health check-up, workshops, seminars, parents get-together, educational tour, picnic, festival celebrations, visits of social worker etc. for over all development of hearing impaired child . Enabling them to have equal opportunities in the main stream of society.
We want to accomplished handsome honorarium and updating of dedicated, hardworking staff members, social awareness programs, avail services of experts, set up of digital learning, Dr.speech software with necessary hardware and sound proof setup (acoustic booth), Hearing aids and battery for poor families, regular audiologist and speech therapist services. To increase intake Capacity. Therapy material and educational material etc.
Statement of Need
Four deaf babies are born in every 1000 birth. Basically there are four categories of deaf i.e. mild, moderate, severe & profound. If they are fitted with suitable hearing aids, they can hear, if taught with special method they can learn to speak at the early age (plasticity age).
If hearing aid fitting has been assertive and well-managed, the child learn spoken language naturally, can converse with relative ease under the direction of an auditory-verbal therapist, special educator in partnership with parent,
But, first they faces disability of deafness ,dumbness follows, moves to special education for  the deaf, by sign language method up to middle school  Still there are no facilities to continue their higher education in same stream. Hence, only 2.5 % reaches to secondary school, 1.1 % to higher secondary, 0.9 % up graduation level
Hence, if they are taught & trained by oral and aural method can go extra mile with general schooling and they can have Opportunity to be with main stream of society.
This is the only oral aural rehab centre of this region, families from about 6 Districts                 (Amravati, Akola, Washim, Buldhana, Yavatmal, Nasik, Nagpur) are temporarily shifted to Akola to joined the formulated programme run under single roof.
We are maintaining team of special educators, audiologist, ENT, craft teacher, general teacher, music teacher, yoga teacher, parent’s counsellor, social worker, dance teacher.
Since Last 10 Years constantly taking efforts for general school integration of hearing impaired child ,this  year  25 Hearing Impaired students are in BALVIKAS SPECIAL SCHOOL and 18 HI kids and mothers are supported at BALVIKAS KENDRA (language-speech-hearing training and parent training & guidance program ), 38 parents joined regular as an equal partner. About more than 600 families counselled and guided to support their special child. Till today 71 Hearing impaired kids are integrated into general school as general scholar.
How the issue relates to your organization
We conducts program for awareness of early detection and intervention of hearing impaired children on air, print media and public program and workshops, lecturers.
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Hearing impaired children’s of  rural, semi-urban, urban area ,and families of poor, lower middle class financial background are taking benefit those who cannot move to metro cities and cannot afford costly therapy services. Our centre only centre in this region started with 2 kids in the year of 2008, till today more than 725 families are benefited.
 
Methodology
We are working with temporary arrangement since last 12 years, with honorary staff and faculties, organised temporary facilities. Making awareness among doctors and society about early detection and intervention of hearing disability. Providing educational support to deaf general scholars, supporting them to avail equal opportunities in to society. Empowerment of parents to deal the problem of their special child. Complete exposure to deaf student as good as normal child, participation in all competation as normal child avails, providing updates about hearing management.
Geographic area of work place
Our work is located at Jyoti nagar, Jatharpeth, Akola, Maharashtra, Dist.Akola; it is an established fact that, if hearing loss is present it should be detected and remedial action taken before the baby is 6 months old. As there is no universal screening nor a high risk screening existing in the private and government  hospitals .Help the children access early intervention facilities, Most challenging  is to deal the H I child at  age of 3-4 years because, plasticity age is up to 6 yrs only. In this region all the deaf school teaching method is only sign language.                                                          
MRS. SUCHITA AND SHRIKANT BANSOD
FOUNDER
` M.Sc., D.M.L.T, B. Ed (HI), Diploma in hearing aid repairing and mould making,
 Life member of National Conference of Education of Deaf (NCED),
 Expert panellist for education of hearing impaired of Govt. Of Maharashtra
BUDGET
Annual budgert 15 lakh + 174000 for
hearing aids for three needy childerens                                                                                                            VISIT US- www.ekvirafoundation.org,                                                                            Fb - emfa deaf balvikas Kendra

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