Business Plan – Communication Network



Business Plan – Communication Network

The Founder Director was motivated by a niece with Downs Syndrome. Her skills in creative leadership and strategic planning are now enhanced by twenty years of experience. Quite early in the life of the fledgling organization, she realized the enormous impact relevant and timely impact can have on the development and growth of NGOs . She began a Newsletter in 1984 with a friend who was at that time Counselor in the Canadian Embassy in New Delhi . This was the first ever publication from an NGO addressing issues of mental handicap. She also began collecting books, subscribing to journals and building up liaison with international NGOs and disability organizations.

Today Samadhan can boast of one of the very few libraries in India dedicated to mental handicap. The library has about 1000 books and slides and videocassettes on mental handicap collected from different parts of the world over twenty years. Documents of both Asian and International conferences are available in the library since Samadhan is a member of both the Asian Federation for Mental Handicap and The Inclusion International. Membership in these two organizations has enabled close contact and learning from other NGO’s engaged in similar work globally. Access to information globally is also made easier and links with universities outside India as well as in India has made the gradual establishing of a source for information and its dissemination possible. The envisaged Communication Network on Disability will streamline and make more effective a process, which is already ongoing but not as effective as it can be for lack of specific funding. Most donors are interested in statistics and actual number of beneficiaries. The Network has a reach and a potential which is enormous and will fill a long felt need in India .It will bring India on to the international platform, particularly now with the advanced technology and expertise available within the country.

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