Introduction
SHUCHITA - Skilling, Happiness, Unique Choice, Hope, inclusion, training & abilities, is an inclusive skills development Programme for Women with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Divyangjan) for Pan India. This programme is an initiative of the philanthropic partner of Home of Hope Inc. USA and implemented by Manovikas Charitable Society.
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) routinely face discrimination and are denied basic dignity in India. This Project SHUCHITA will develop an inclusive ecosystem for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, to bring to the global attention the issues faced by women with IDDs. The project has E3 approaches of enabling, encouraging and empowerment for the quality of life and independent living of women with IDDs.
Enable self-advocacy by women with IDDs
Encourage a family-centred approach
Empower adult support services
Enable self-advocacy by women with IDDs
Self-determination to have full-power over all areas on the lives of WIDD
Choice-making and Self-Management
Coaching for speaking up for one’s self, asking for what one needs, negotiating for oneself, and communicating your needs and/or disability through the written word, and pictures or gestures
Encourage a family-centred approach
Encourage parents for full and effective participation of WIDD towards their inclusion in the society
Enable the family members to empower WIDD for expressing their views on all matters
Empower adult support services
Encourage parents for full and effective participation of WIDD towards their inclusion in the society
Enable the family members to empower WIDD for expressing their views on all matters