SUCCESS STORIES OF INCLUSION
As per the cherished ideals, attempts were made to bring the differently abled children to the mainstream. With able guidance from the professional and trained teachers, the feeling of exclusion and alienation of these retarded children both in themselves and their classmates were overcome to a very great extent through integrated education. It is a basic truth in human development that children with a particular deficiency are usually very sharp and adept in other spheres. Hence through a proper assessment their talent and dexterity can be very well exploited to make them confident about themselves. IIEC has always attempted to exploit these individual capabilities through the process of integrated education. The success stories recorded in case histories will amply prove the success achieved during the period under review.
Father’s Name : Iswar Behera,
Vill –Baghuapasi, Daspalla,
Academic Institution : B.S. College,Daspalla
District – Nayagarh
BACKGROUND :
Born with visual impairment in a highly poverty stricken family in a remote village of Daspalla block, Laxmidhar bore the brunt of social stigma of disability as a curse. As usual he was neglected and rejected by his family, not to speak up local community. He was sent to a special school far away which ironically enhanced his isolation and confinement. His father being a migrant labour hardly spared time for his child which added to miseries of Laxmidhar. more...
Laxmidhar Behera
Name : Subhasmita Sahoo
Father’s Name : Devraj Sahoo, Vill –Gohoriapada, Po- Satapatna,
Block- Daspalla, Dist.-Nayagarh,
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years, Sex- Female,
Caste -OBC, Category – LV,
School – Satapatna High School, Satapatna
PREVIOUS CONDITION :
Subhasmita Sahoo was born in poor middle class family. Her socio economic status was very precarious. At the time of her birth she was a normal child. Her parents came to know her vision loss and eye problem at the age of 3. Her parents tried to provide proper treatment but due to poor financial condition and ignorance they could not provide anything of that sort. She could not go to school regularly as her parents were illiterate and moreover she lost 80% of vision. She faced immense problem in reading and writing in the class room. more...
Name: Chandan Tripathi, Father’s Name : Kailash Tripathi
Vill –Haridabadi, Po- Satapatna
Block- Daspalla, Dist.-Nayagarh
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Male Caste-Gen, Category – LMD
School – RMJ High School, Satapatna
PREVIOUS CONDITION :
He had serious mobility constraints. He was not capable of walking straight. He almost limped and stumbled down frequently. Mentally he was not strong. He was very very sentimental. His daily living skill was not developed as compared to their age group. He was not able to execute his daily living activity. more...
Chandan Tripathi
Name: Sibasis Sahoo, Father’s Name : Suresh Sahoo,
Vill –Tentulipatna, Po- Satapatna,
Block- Daspalla, Dist.-Nayagarh,
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Male, Caste-OBC, Category – LV,
School – Satapatna High School, Satapatna
PREVIOUS CONDITION :
Sibasis Sahoo is a low vision child. He was detected by the Resource Teacher of IIEC, under IEDSS project. He was born in a poor family. His socio economic status was very low. He was facing problem in reading and writing in the class room. He could not see anything with naked eye. He could neither read nor see. Sometime he felt sever headache and both eyes felt like burning. Before 8 years he came to know his eye sight declining. Eye Specialist was consulted and he had to use glass. His eye sight deteriorated day by day. He was unable to take part in different activities and failed to understand the visual concepts properly. He was then handled by the Resource Teacher of IIEC. more...
Name: Mamali Patra
Father’s Name : Pitabasa Patra
Vill – Dindabhuin, Po- Dindabhuin
Block- Daspalla, Dist.-Nayagarh
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Female Caste-OBC, Category – LV
School – Panchayat High School, Dihagaon
PREVIOUS CONDITION :
Mamali was born as a daughter in a very poor daily wage labourer’s family. Her socio economic status was quite miserable. At the time of her birth she was a normal child. But she gradually lost vision. She could not see things clearly. She lacked confidence to move from one place to another place independently. She depended on others and more on his family members. She was able to perform her daily living activities at home but she could not carry out all her works confidently. Her out door travel got very restricted. Her parents tried to give proper treatment but due to illiteracy,ignorance and poverty. They could not provide the right kind of treatment. Academically she performed very poor. She was facing problems in reading and writing in her class room. She was then handled by the Resource Teacher of IIEC, under IEDSS project. more...
Mamali Patra
Name: Puspanjali Jani
Father’s Name : Paika Jani
Vill – Billuamara, Po- Khetramadal,
Dist.- Ganjam
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Female Caste-ST,
Category – LV
School – Daspalla High School, Daspalla
PREVIOUS CONDITION:
Puspanjali Jani is a low vision girl. She was identified by the Resource teacher of IIEC under IEDSS project, Daspalla, Nayagarh. She was reading in the Daspalla High School, Daspalla. Her father is a daily labourer and mother house wife. Her socio economic status is very poor. She was facing problem in reading and writing in the class room due to eye problem. Her both eyes had a feeling of irritation and before 5 she knew her problem. The Eye Specialist gave her medicine and glass. Her eye sight started decreasing day by day. She was unable to take part fully in different activities and understanding the visual concepts clearly.more...
Puspanjali Jani
Name: Sibani Pradhan
Father’s Name : Gangadhar Pradhan,
Vill – Andharakota, Po- Daspalla, Dist.- Nayagarh
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Female Caste-OBC, Category – LV
School – Daspalla Girls High School, Daspalla
PREVIOUS CONDITION:
Sibani Pradhan was identified as a Low Vision child through the special educator of IIEC, during an assessment camp. As a child with Low Vision, she was facing problem in reading and writing in the class room. Academically she was very poor. She cannot see small letter without magnifier glass. Her socio economic status was very wretched. She consulted Eye Specialist and used spectacle. She was not going to school regularly. She was picked up by the Resource Teacher of IIEC as a beneficiary. more...
Shibani Pradhan
Name: Sudarsan Pradhan
Father’s Name : Tuku Pradhan,
Vill – Ujamunda, Po- Letingia,
Block: K.Nuagaon, Dist.- Kandhamal,
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Male, Caste-OBC, Category – LV,
School – Laxmi Narayan High School, Kachapalli
PREVIOUS CONDITION:
Sudarsan Pradhan was born in a poor middle class family. He was identified as a low vision
child through the Resource Teacher of IIEC, under IEDSS project, Daspalla. As a child with Low vision, he was facing problems in reading and writing in the classroom. He faces the problem of seeing the black board to read the 12 point or less print study materials and distant objects. He urgently needed a magnifier glass. His socio economic status was not good. He was handled by the Resource Teacher of IIEC. His academic standard was not good. more...
Sudarsan Pradhan
Name: Runubala Jani
Father’s Name : Jatendra Jani
Vill – Badakurubangi, Po- Poibadi
Block: Daspalla, Dist.- Nayagarh
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Female, Caste-ST, Category – LV
School – Daspalla High School, Daspalla
BACKGROUND :
Runubala was born in a poor family of daily wage labourer. She was identified as a low vision child through the special educator of IIEC during an assessment camp. As a child with low vision she was facing problems in reading and writing in the class room. She could not read or write without naked eyes. She used magnifying glass/spectacle. During reading she felt irritation and strain in eyes. Eye sight decreased day by day. Her socio-economic status was very poor. She was handled by the special educator of IIEC under IEDSS project. more...
Runubala Jani
Name: Sujata Samal, Father’s Name : Sarata Samal
Vill – Nahakapada, Po- Daspalla
Block: Daspalla, Dist.- Nayagarh
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Female Caste-OBC, Category – LV
School – Daspalla Girl High School, Daspalla
PREVIOUS CONDITION:
Sujata Samal was a Low Vision girl. She was detected by the Resource Teacher of IIEC under IEDSS project Daspalla. She was reading in the Daspalla Girls High School, Daspalla. Her Father’s is a daily wage labourer and mother a house wife. Her socio economic status was very miserable. She was facing problem in reading and writing in the class room due to eye problem. Her both eyes seemed to be irritated. Before one year she knew her eye sight was decreasing. She consulted eye specialist and used medicine and glass. Her eye sight decreased day by day. She was unable to take part fully in different activities and understanding the visual concepts properly.more...
Sujata Samal
Name: Pramodini Hota
Father’s Name : Brundaban Hota
Vill – Andharakote, Po- Daspalla
Block: Daspalla, Dist.- Nayagarh
Class- 10th Pass, Age – 16 years,
Sex- Female, Caste-Gen, Category – HI
School – Daspalla Girl High School, Daspalla
PREVIOUS CONDITION:
Promodini Hota was detected at the age of 8 years as a Hearing Impaired child by IIEC professional. At the time of her birth she was a normal child. Her parents consulted with ENT Specialist and used some medicine. Her Hearing loss increased day to day by day. Promodini was a Hearing Impaired student and read in Daspalla Girls High School, Daspalla. As a Hearing Impaired student she feel embarrassed during class room reading and conversation with peer group because she could not hear any sound. Sometimes her both ears were discharging. Her socio economic status was middle class. She was handled by the Resource teacher of IIEC. more,,,
Pramodini Hota
Name: Prasanta Rout
Father’s Name - Panchanan Rout
At/Po – Poibadi, Block : Daspalla
Class : XI, Age : 17 Years,
Disability Category : VI
Academic Institution: B.S. College Daspalla
Background:
Prasanta Rout comes from a middle class family. As a child he was like any other abled one. When he was studying in class –VIII, he was attacked by Cerebral Malaria. A few months later he gradually began losing his vision and then he turned totally blind. He dropped out of school and failed to continue his study and eventually found him isolated from the rest of the society. more...
Slum : Satyakali
Model Infrastructure : Overhead tank with stand post for water supply
Background :
This slum is in Ward 27 of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. Set up in 1982 the slum has around 200 households with a population of 825. Cattle rearing and selling milk is the mainstay of the slum dwellers. The women earn some extra income for the household by making papad and sweets for the market. The community is remarkable for the high emphasis it places on education.However Satyakali basti faced an acute shortage of drinking water. During the rainy season the drains adjacent to the slum overflowed and a the wells are contaminated by the drain water which added to the woes of the slum dwellers. The contaminated water resulted in increased incidences of water born diseases which adversely affected their lives and livelihoods.
Slum – Nandinipalli Mundasahi
Model Infrastructure : Waste Bin
The City of Bhubaneswar, with an estimated population of 1, 60,0000 have 377 slums.
The Nandinipally Munda Sahi Basti is one amongst them which was established in 1968.It is an unauthorized
slum situated in between the Bidyut Marg and Regional College, under Nayapally area so as it is an
encroachment of Govt.land. The inhabitants have no legal rights on the land. There are 150 house holds in
the slum with 760 population. The majority of residents are Schedule Tribe belongs to Mayurbhanj District
and few families belong to Muslim Community. There is a good fellow feeling and cohesion among community
and every matter have been regulated by the Slum Development Committee. The majority of people are
depending on wage earning and only 10 persons are doing Govt.
Job.At the heart of the slum there is a BalwadiCentre which has
been managed by the Ruchika for the education of small children.
Besides, one CommunityToilet and Bath space has also been
provided by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. Prior to
interventionof IIEC during last part of 2009 it was noticed that the sanitary and hygienic condition of the community wasmore unhealthy and the surrounding was very dirty because people were either
not aware or well conscious in disposing their house hold wastages in a planned manner. Though there
was watsebin kept by the BMC in some part of the Basti, yet people are used to throw the wastes out
side here and there. This habit might be developed as regular clearance of garbage by BMC was not
taken up. Secondly the existing drainage system was also been defunct due to blockage made by
the garbages.This self created condition and inherent attitude of community not only influence their health and hygiene but at the same time deteri orate the sanitary condition of its surroundings and as a post impact of it small children have been affected by different diseases like malaria and other infectious skin diseases. Under the situation, for IIEC the great concern was to do some thing to develop the sanitary condition of the locality and to create awareness on community health and hygiene. more...
Pre Scenario of the slum prior to intervention by IIEC
Construction of Waste Bin
Slum – Mati Sahi, Old town, Ward No. 53
Model Infrastructure : renovation of open well
The Matisahi slum is situated in the old town area of Bhubaneswar. This authorized slum
established more than 60 years ago comes under ward no. 53 of Bhubaneswar Municipal
corporation with a population of 260 comprising of 40 households. The men folk mainly
are wage earners and the women work as housemaid in nearby houses.The people of
Matisahi are well organised. With their active participation and with IIEC and Practical
Action’s initiative renovation of well which is quite old was done. Now the committee formed
for the maintenance is managing it very well. Mainly this work is looked by the women.
The women are very energetic and take active part in development of their slum. more...
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Name : Sunita Nayak
Father’s Name: Umesh Chandra Nayak
Age: 22yrs.,
Category: CP,
Caste: SCAt: Madhupur, PO/GP-Dihagaon
Dist: Nayagarh
As such Sunita as a Child had failed to cope up with the normal steps of milestone, development. Through her mother working as an Anganwadi Worker was conscious of her child’s disability, she could not handle her technically. Therefore the child grew up with all constraints and barriers up to class-V. at this point of tome Sunita’s parents as well as teachers got very skeptical about the purpose of her studies. This negative and fatal attitude of the guardians was forcing her to withdraw.more...
Name: Mrs. Rupabati Mohanty
Husband’s Name: Mr. Benupani Das
Age: 29yrs. Sex: FemaleDisability
Category: OH
Percentage of disability : 80%
Caste: General Religion: Hindu,
Marital Status: Married
Address: At/Po-Kunjabangada,
Daspalla, Nayagarh
Background :
Mrs. Rupabati Mohanty, a 29-year-old lady tailor who runs tailoring work like making quilt from old clothes, stitching dresses of children in her house. She usually faced difficulties for collecting the work-order due to her mobility constraints. “Inaccessibility is the biggest barrier to growing my business” she used to complain. She lives with her 8yr old son Papuna in a small house built by herself on a govt. land at Kunjabangada. Unfortunately her husband desired her since 2 yrs. because of some personal problems. She gets disabled pension of Rs.300/- per month and is also availing the Antardyoya Yojana scheme of govt. more...
Name : Mamata Naik
Fathers Name : Laxman Naik
Age: 29yrs,
Qualification: 9th Pass,
Sex: Female, Caste: SC
Village: Similisahi, PO: Similisahi,
Via: Satapatna PS-Daspalla,
Nayagarh (Odisha)
Family Members: 3
A very distressing incident happened with Mamata Naik. One year back during the kitchen work suddenly Mamata attacked by epilepsy and she fell down by the side of fire Unfortunately fire engulfed her and burnt. Immediately she referred to nearest hospital for treatment. In this accident her fingers of legs and hands were got bent. Therefore she is not completely able to doing her own and household work perfectly. more...
Name : Gitanjali Sahoo (MR)
Fathers Name- Gobinda Sahoo
Age – 30 Years, Sex- Female,
Family Member- 07
At- Haridabadi, P.O- Satpatana
Via- Daspalla, Dist – Nayagarh
Miss Gitanjali Sahoo is a MR woman. She belongs to a very poor family. She discontinued her study when she was 15years old. At the age of 18years she got married but after 2 months of her marriage she was mentally imbalanced due to unforeseen reasons. Due to her mental imbalance she could not cope with family members and resort to misbehavior and quarreling. Due to such type of disturbance her family members admitted her at Berhampur Medical. She got treatment there for some days but due to no considerable improvement her family members stopped her treatment and went back. more...
Name: Mr. Bulu Nayak
Father’s Name: Mr. Kulamani Nayak
Age: 32yrs. Sex: Male
Disability Category: OH (PPRP of both lower limb)
Percentage of disability : 90% Caste:
General Religion: Hindu Marital Status: Married
Present Address: At/Po – Subalaya, GP- Khamarsahi,
Daspalla, Dist-Nayagar
Background :
Mr. Bulu Nayak, a 32 year old man live with her wife and two daughters in a small hut built by himself at their own land at Subalaya since last 10years. He migrated from his original native place at-Dindabhuin, Po- Dihagaon, due to family disturbances. He left his study after 8th Standard and learning the tailoring work for 1-2 year. Then he independently started tailoring work. But due to some problem he left the job after 3-4years and working at a Tiffine Centre. Gradually he learn all the process and preparation of tiffine and sweets and start his own shop with partnership. After 4-5 years he left the shop and started his own shop. During that period he was able to earned 1000-1500 rupees. But due to lack of money he unable to run the shop for long time and wind up the shop. She usually faced difficulties
for access due to her mobility constraints. He gets disabled pension of Rs.300/- per month. more...