Niswarth 

Niswarth has been organising a number of camps to help the physically challenged people of the tea gardens. These include:

• Disability camps to help identify physically challenged people and help them get disability cards, aids and appliances
• Eye, Dental and Medical camps to provide free treatement to patients
• Blood donation camps on behalf of district hospitals.

The camps have been of tremendous benefit to people who have been ignored most of  thier lives. The disability cards provided have helped them receive free public transport, scholarships, pensions, loans, etc. from the governmemnt.

One the other hand, through the medical camps, Niswarth has brought in qualified doctors from siliguri to the remote tea gardens to help with treatement and heathcare.

Niswarth's efforts have been widely recognised by local government officials such as the district magistrate, supritendant of police, income tax commissioner, district chief medical officer and the disability board chairman. Niswarth's activities has resulted in the local population receiving social benefits to the tune of over Rs. 2 Crore (20 million).

Niswarth disability camps have helped identify a number of handicapped children who are deaf and dumb and never been to scool. As part of Niswarth's objectives to make the future for these children brighter, the organisation has fully sponsored them to go to a special school for the deaf and dumb in Darjeeling.

In addition to camps, Niswarth has been actively involved with the local communities. Through sponsorship from various sources, Niswarth has organised health workshops on the prevention and control of eye diseases and selected 30 people to train as nurses and serve thier communities.

Click on the images below to find out how some of the people have benefitted from Niswarth's Disability Camps and employment programme.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

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To find out more on what events we are organising, click on the "Events" page.

We are always looking for volunteers to help organise and host camps. If you're interested and would like to be a part of Niswarth, please contact us through the "Contact Us" page.

Your Donation - FACTS!

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An estimated 5-6% of a tea gardens population is physically challenged but due to lack of awareness and money, less than 0.1% have disability cards.

It costs Niswarth around Rs.20,000 to organise a disability camp but can save c.200 people Rs.1,000+ each in costs associated with creating a disability card and further costs of disability aids and appliances.

In India, people with disabilities are highly over-represented among the poor with about 82% of them living below the poverty line. Only around 1% of disabled people have access to any form of rehabilitation.