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To the left there is a giant wooden cut-out of a yellow cartoon duckling with orange feet and beak and large oval eyes outlined in black with white eyeballs, black pupils, and black eyelashes.","Alt_Text_Photo2":"Hiral, wearing a maroon jacket and ash-grey track pants, is squatting on a brown muddy field next to a single-stemmed mango sapling. The field is sparsely dotted here and there with young mango trees with green spear-shaped leaves. Hiral is pouring water from a light sky-blue blue plastic mug, held in her right hand, towards the base of the sapling. ","Alt_Text_Photo3":"Hiral, wearing a salmon-pink T-shirt and ash grey track pants, sits cross-legged on a bed, bent over a letter-pad clipped to a wooden writing board. She is writing in the pad with a red-coloured pencil with a black base. There is an indigo blue schoolbag on the bed next to her. The bed is on an iron cot painted vermillion. The mattress has a geometrical design of pink, brown and white. The room has mushroom pink walls.","Alt_Text_Photo4":"Hiral, wearing a turquoise-blue full-sleeved knitted shirt and purple stretch pants, is grinning as she stands in the middle of a broad corridor with both arms outstretched and slightly raised. The corridor has gleaming beige floor tiles. There is a horizontal steel curtain rod high above her head, spanning the two walls of the corridor. The two sections of the curtain have been drawn to either side in folds that brush against the walls. They are of a thick, satiny material coloured chocolate brown with a narrow horizontal band of beige in the middle. ","Alt_Text_Photo5":"Sideways shot of Hiral sitting in a playground swing, smiling as she turns her face towards the camera. She wears a maroon jacket and ash grey track pants. The straps of her slippers, which she grips between her toes, are made up of three fused cords of maroon, cream and grey. Gripping the orange iron chains of the swing, she has propelled herself upward so that her body is in a half-reclining pose and her feet are off the ground. The frame of the swing is painted bright yellow. There is a yellow jungle gym behind this swing. On the beige soil, in the background, there are three medium-sized coconut saplings with yellowish-green fronds. 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This was what staff members of the Blind Welfare Council in Gujarat came across while doing one of their periodic surveys of disabled children in the tribal and deprived regions of Dahod and Panchmahal.\n\nHiral Kanaksinh is now 16 and flourishing in the residential school of the Council, founded by Yusufi Kapadiya, a philanthropist with blindness whose remarkable story we published several weeks ago. Yusufi set in motion numerous initiatives to provide education, rehabilitation and support services for the disabled. The Blind Welfare Council’s school houses 102 children with different physical, intellectual, developmental and neurological disabilities. They receive free food, accommodation, education and medical care as well as vocational training according to their abilities. The school principal, Radhika Singh, who has been working here since 2002, tell us the school’s objectives go far beyond textbook learning; the focus is on life skills. Children live on campus full-time, returning to their families only during major festivals and summer vacations.\n\nHiral has a mild form of cerebral palsy which is accompanied by hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body). She communicated with us by using Radhika as the medium. Radhika tells us Hiral has a sound intellect and can do all her work unaided. “I like maths very much,” says Hiral. “I love dancing to music!” And what tickles her palate? “I eat everything but I prefer chatpata (spicy) food!”","Quote":"“I like eating chatpata food! Although my right side is weak I can manage on my own”","Status":"Published","Video":null,"Website_Content":"A couple living in utter poverty – daily wage labourers, both. Husband with a drinking problem. Wife struggling to make ends meet and raise her two sons and her daughter, Hiral, affected by a congenital disability. This was what staff members of the Blind Welfare Council in Gujarat came across while doing one of their periodic surveys of disabled children in the tribal and deprived regions of Dahod and Panchmahal.\n \nHiral Kanaksinh is now 16 and flourishing in the residential school of the Council, founded by Yusufi Kapadiya, a philanthropist with blindness whose remarkable story we published several weeks ago. Yusufi set in motion numerous initiatives to provide education, rehabilitation and support services for the disabled. One of the most vital among them has been the creation of a pool of special educators, a sorely needed resource in our country. He started a training college to develop skilled manpower for working with children with disabilities.\n \nThe Blind Welfare Council’s school houses 102 children (with boys numbering twice as many as girls) with different physical, intellectual, developmental and neurological disabilities. They receive free food, accommodation, education and medical care as well as vocational training according to their abilities. Those with deafness and impaired hearing are taught using Sign, models and charts.\n \nThe school principal, Radhika Singh, who has been working here since 2002, tell us the school’s objectives go far beyond textbook learning; the focus is on life skills: personal hygiene and self-care; basic communication and social interaction; simple vocational and household tasks; creative expression through art, craft, and movement. Children live on campus full-time, returning to their families only during major festivals and summer vacations. For many poor families such as Hiral’s, this arrangement provides both relief and hope.\n \nHiral has a mild form of cerebral palsy which is accompanied by hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body). Her right side has been affected and so has her speech, although she can express herself intelligibly. She communicated with us by using Radhika as the medium. Radhika tells us Hiral has a sound intellect and although she is hemiplegic she can do all her work unaided. She also helps in taking care of other children in the hostel. “I like maths very much,” says Hiral. “I love dancing to music!” And what tickles her palate? “I eat everything but I prefer chatpata (spicy) food!” When asked what she plans to do after finishing school she says, “I haven’t decided about my future as yet.”\n \nWhatever she might decide, the dedicated teachers of the Blind Welfare Council will surely guide her in the right direction.\n","State_name":"Gujarat","Display_Order":263}}},
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