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Hope Disability Centre, Kupwara, Kashmir,
India -
Hope Disability Website |
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Kupwara is
a district in Kashmir located just next to the
Pakistan border. It is 118 km away from Wayil,
and takes 3 and a half hours to drive there, and
nearly 5 hours for someone to travel by bus to
the Hope Disability Centre in Wayil. This is too
difficult for persons with disabilities to come
regularly for treatment, so it has been a dream
for a long time to have a permanent disability
centre located in Kupwara.
Because of the long summer strike last year in
the Kashmir Valley which shut down all roads
with curfew for several months due to the
shooting of a young Kashmiri boy by the armed
forces, the building has taken longer than
expected. Also the costs have escalated in that
time by about 15-20% for some materials and
labour.
So about US$4500 will be sought, and hopefully
that money may be recouped from funds sent by
MEND 6 months ago that were not received by Hope
Centre due to some major banking irregularity!
MEND helped with the application for this new
centre, which took a lot of detail, to get it
right so that the donor was happy. MEND is also
a monitor.
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17
Jan 2012 - MEND has sponsored a new wood
heater for Hope Disability Centre Kupwara,
Khasmir, India. It is Winter there and
very cold, so the heater is very
welcome. Click to enlarge. |
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7 December
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Click on image for
Team photo of Hope Disability Centre Kupwara,
Kashmir Staff
Celebration of
International Day of Persons with
Disabilities.
Dear All, It
is my pleasure to inform you that we
celebrated International Day of Persons
with Disabilities at Hope Disability
Centre; SHS, Kupwara on 02 December
2011. It was attended by Government
officials from district administration
apart from our beneficiaries. The event
showcased some competitive activities
among persons with disabilities which
included, painting, quick banana eating
and other competitions. The winners were
awarded with trophies. In addition,
speeches were also presented by Deputy
Commissioner, Kupwara and Sami Wani,
Executive Director, Hope Disability
Centre. I would like to forward my
heartiest thanks to ALTSO, MEND and
other supporting organisations which
helped us in every possible way to build
this centre, because of which we are
able to reach out with help to persons
with disabilities living in far flung
areas of district. Thanks again for your
support and help.
Regards,
Wasim Yousf , (Dev. & Com.
Officer), Hope Disability Centre |
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28 Nov - New photos
of Kupwara building added to the Photo
Gallery - Click on Image |
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17 November
- Click on image for
photographs of Hope Disability Centre Kupwara, which is now functional
with following rooms;
1.
Physiotherapy Room.
2. Office
3.
Night Stay Room
4. Meeting Room,
along with
5. Kitchen and Bathroom
Beneficiaries have already started to
visit this treatment centre to avail
benefits of our services. we are in need
of some physiotherapy equipment to
upscale it in order to enhance our
quantity and quality of services here.
MEND has supported to construct fence
around the the vicinity of this centre
and installation of Roof, which is
likely to be completed in 10 days. I
would like to thank both ALTSO and MEND
in lending full support to accomplish
the construction of this Centre, which will help us in
Rehabilitating more and more Persons
with disabilities in the area.
Sami Wani, Director Hope
Disability Centre, Srinagar, Kashmir |
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20 August - One of our staff, Ajidshafi , who is a Speech Therapist and audiologist & myself had went Kupwara to attend hearing aid camp where beneficiaries with hearing disability were consulted. These beneficiaries were identified by our community workers. All these hearing aids were fitted to beneficiaries at
HDC Kupwara .
Click on Image to download full report
with photos
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30 July 2011 - Ganga
and Rob visited the new Hope Centre in
Kupwara, Kashmir yesterday and were
pleased to see it will be soon
inaugurated. A number of items remain to
be finished so that the building can
open soon. But great to see that already
the 4 fulltime Hope staff, funded by
Handicap International support, are busy
identifying and assessing and referring
patients from this Kupwara centre for
treatment. ALTSO sourced the funds
(about US$25000) from the Dorothea Haus
Ross Foundation to build this Centre.
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