• Transforming Institutional Care

    by providing help, training and rehabilitation

    for abandoned special needs individuals

    in State Homes.

    u&i CARE

  • Social Services Complex for Men

    is a Home for differently-abled men. U&I works with the men in the Home to provide vocational training, special education, hygiene and healthcare. Our volunteers also spend time with the men every single week, providing much-need social interaction. It’s a simple task, but for these men who have no chance to leave the Home, it’s the only contact they have with the outside world. It reaffirms their value and changes their perspective.

    PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

    • Aerobics

    • Yoga

    • Stretching exercises

    SPECIAL NEEDS CLASSES

    • Color sorting

    • Narrating moral stories

    • Basic geometrical shapes recognition

    • Beads and threads

    VOCATIONAL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED

    • Newspaper envelopes

    • Mat making

    • Gardening (indoor)

    • Book making

    • Paper bags

    • Designing cement pots

    • Making home decorative items using water bottles

    • Wall hangings with wool

    • Bookmark making

    • Photo album

    • Book binding

    HEALTH AND HYGIENE

    • Nail cutting

    • Bathing

    • Combing of hair

    • Brushing teeth

    CELEBRATION AND GIFTS

    • Birthday bash

    • Distribution of slippers

  • SSC SNAPSHOTS

  • Institute for Mentally Handicapped Children

    is a Home for destitute special needs boys between the ages of 8 and 21. U&I began work in IMHC even before we were formally registered as a Trust and has increased our involvement over the last seven years. Our program in this Home includes special needs classes, healthcare and hygiene and physiotherapy. We are also training the boys in several vocational skills, including mat making, basket weaving, painting and gardening.

    PHYSIOTHERAPY

    • Cardio respiratory ( aerobic and anaerobic )

    • Flexibility activities ( Stretching Ex’S )

    • Endurance activities ( Strengthening Ex’S )

    • Balance activities ( Swiss Ball Ex’S )

    PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

    • Volleyball & passing the ball

    • Endurance training

    • Gait training ( walking up stairs with support)

    • Exercise

    • Positioning (Side lying, crawling to kneeling , kneeling to standing)

    VOCATIONAL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED

    • Newspaper bags made out of newspaper

    • Mat making

    • Sowing of seeds

    • Designing cement pots

    • Box making

    • Wall hangings were made out of wool

    SPECIAL NEEDS CLASSES

    • Buttoning and unbuttoning of shirts

    • Combing hair and self grooming

    • Speech therapy - narrating stories

    • Word pronunciations

    • Learned to greet and apologize

    • Playing videos regarding social and emotional activities

    • Basic geometrical shapes recognition

    • Building blocks (making towers and buildings)

    HEALTH AND HYGIENE

    • The boys are given a bath daily by the male caretakers

    • Brushing of teeth is done daily

    • Nails are cut once a week

    • A group of people from NEP organization came to cut the boys hair

    CELEBRATION AND GIFTS

    • Christmas

    • The boys home celebrates all the birthdays once a year with joyous carnival themed party

    • Children’s day was celebrated

    • TV, DVD player and music system was donated

  • IMHC SNAPSHOTS

  • Home for Mentally Retarded Women

    is a state-run institute for special needs, abandoned women. U&I works with these women to improve their social and vocational skills, as well as provide life skills training for them.

    PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

    • Balancing beam

    • Action songs

    • Free hand exercises

    • Sports

    • Aerobics

    SPECIAL NEEDS CLASSES

    • Speech improvements

    • Taught consonants

    • Dictation

    • Rhymes

    • Newspaper reading

    • Alphabets

    • Music and dance

    • Learning numbers

    VOCATIONAL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED

    • Gardening

    • Pot painting

    • Making of earring, necklaces

    • Paper doll making

    • Photo frame making

    • Pen holder

    • Rolling paper to make baskets

    • Knitting

    • Painting

    • Clay activity (Leaf shape, square)

    • Cushions

    • Hand bags

    • Jute mat

    HEALTH AND HYGIENE

    • Nail cutting is done regularly

    • The women are taught personal care and hygiene

    • Nurse

      • Assures medication is taken on time and the right amounts.

      • Also responsible for diagnosing ailments and taking them to the hospital if needed

    CELEBRATIONS

    • Monthly celebrations are for birthdays

    • Holi

  • WOMEN'S MR HOME SNAPSHOTS

  • Yashodharmma Dasappa Women’s Reception Center

    is a Remand Home for women who have been rescued from bonded labor and trafficking. U&I provides counseling through a certified psychologist, vocational training in skills like jewelry making and pot painting.

    VOCATIONAL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED

    • Newspaper cover for medical shops

    • Earrings

    • Woolen knitting of caps and scarfs

    • Pot painting

    • Jhumka making with silk thread

    • Necklaces

    • Bottle art

    • Woolen flowers painting

    • Hair bands

    • Cutting and stitching fabric for mat making (from Sarees)

  • Women’s Reception Center SNAPSHOTS

  • Shishu Mandir

    is a Home for abandoned babies and toddlers, including those with special needs. U&I assists with care of these children, as well as conducts a preschool to engage these children who are otherwise lack a structured routine through the day. We also conduct physiotherapy for those children who are differently abled. We celebrate their birthdays, teach them rhymes, make sure they are well fed, play games with them – we make sure we share the joy of childhood with these children who have faced severe neglect.

    EDUCATIONAL

    • Recite rhyme

    • Painting alphabets

    • Learning to write on slates

    • Story telling

    • Theater performance

    • Count numbers

    • Basic addition

    • Gardening - coriander, palak, tomato and flowers

    • Name body parts

    • Matching colors

    • Soft Skills

      • Good and bad touch

      • Taught greetings and how to apologize

     

     

    PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

    • Games & Activities

      • Hopscotch

      • Musical chairs

      • Lemon spoon

      • Running and catching

      • Simon says

    • Movement Therapy

      • Yoga

      • Jumping

      • Climbing up and down the steps

      • Dancing Skills

      • Marching and walking on the beam

    PHYSIOTHERAPY

    • Neuro developmental therapy (NDT) - able to sit ,stand with support

    • Passive movements and passive stretching - walking with support, muscle tightness reduced

    HEALTH AND HYGIENE

    • Toddlers were toilet trained and a few of them now do not require diapers anymore.

    • The children were taught how to wash their hands before and after meals

    • De-worming has been done for the children

    • There were children with lice that were treated

    • Cutting of nails is done weekly.

    ARTS & CRAFTS

    • Spray painting / String painting

    • Making flowers out of paper

    • Coloring and painting

    • Coaster Making

    • Photo Frame Making

    • Leaf Painting

    • making of Christmas trees with colored paper

    • Making of snowman from ice cream sticks and cotton

    • Pencil stands from rolled paper

    CELEBRATIONS

    • Christmas celebration

    • Monthly birthday celebrations

    • Sports Day celebrated with prize distribution

    • Independence day

    • Republic day

    • Gandhi jayanthi

  • SHISHU MANDIR SNAPSHOTS​

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