Monthly meeting of Self-advocates on 16 January 2023

Self-advocates of Manbhavan Mitr Mandali met on Zoom with their parents on 16 January 2023. The target was to motivate each other’s parents for their independent traveling. Self-advocates who are not confident in traveling shared their feelings and their parents also shared why they don’t feel safe to send them alone. Mrs Indira Alok gave wonderful tips on how to build confidence among self-advocates and their parents. At the end of the meeting, they planned for a short trip where a few self-advocates would guide others who were not able to travel independently. Let's encourage them and wish them luck.

Mentor training program for Self-advocacy

Self-advocates participated in a 3-day training program from 31 Jan to 2 Feb,2023 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi, organized by National Trust and conducted By Privaar. Self Advocates of Manbhavan Mitr Mandali actively took part and gave their valuable suggestions.

Participants: Ms. Kanika 

                       Ms. Deepika Babol

                       Mr. Pratham

Picnic

Manovikas School For Inclusion (MSI) organized a picnic for the students at Lohagarh farmhouse on 8th February 2023. 8 self-advocates participated and enjoyed the day out.

• Deepika

• Shyam

• Pawan

• Dipanshu

• Souham

• Pawan

• Pratham

• Harsh

5th May (1st training)

Workshop on the empowering influence of human rights under RPWD act 2016

Manovikas Family is dedicated to empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through understanding their human rights. a Workshop on the Empowering Influence of Human Rights was organized on 5th May 2023 and we would love to share that 25 self-advocates with an intellectual or developmental disability participated. Parents and a few professionals also participated in this workshop.

Introduction Session

The introduction session was conducted by Dr.Alok Kumar Bhuwan. In this session, each self-advocate introduced himself/herself with their name, engagement, and what they expected from the workshop. 

Session with Dr. Alok Kumar Bhuwan

It was a participatory session. Dr. Alok Kumar Bhuwan Talked about the needs and responsibilities of life and asked to share with each of them about their responsibility in their life. They talked about what they want from society as sometimes they feel deprived. He encouraged them to be independent in their life.

A session with  Dr. J.C. Gupta

He explained very well the concept of self-advocacy and inspired the participants to think about self-advocacy.

Session with Ms. Saswati Dalal

She explained the objectives, activities, and rules of Manbhavan Mitr Mandali (Self-advocates group of Manovikas) and how to join Manbhavan Mitr Mandali and Manovikas Family Network. 

A session with Shri T D Dhariyal

Shri T D Dhariyal, former State Commissioner, of Persons with Disability was the chief speaker of this workshop. He empowered the self-advocates by providing lots of information about Human Rights in a participatory way. He encouraged them to share experiences and inspired the self-advocates to speak up. understanding. Empowering everyone involved.

Feedback Session

At the end of the session, parents expressed their satisfaction. They wished to join the Family network.

Feedback from Self-advocates

# ‘ I came to know many things that I didn't know before.’

# ‘To avail our right to employment, we have to be eligible’

# ‘To speak about rights, we should know the rights.’

24-26 th December 2023

06 National Seminar on Mental Health-Relevance of Brain Science and Advocacy for Person with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 

27-28 th February 2024 Annual festival of Miranda House "Swataha" for creating awareness about Person with Disabilities.