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Income generation
CBR: Income generation
Navajeevana's
CBR department has a livelihood
coordinator who works with clients that have come to a certain stage of
their rehabilitation plans.
The capacities and talents of clients are
assessed. Some prefer to work at home due to mobility constraints.
Others prefer a ‘job’ outside of the home environment - such clients
have been introduced to regular employment at factories, shops,
garages, printing presses etc. For the self employed options vary from
mushroom cultivation and plant nurseries, sewing, lace making,
carpentry, fruit/ vegetable cultivation etc.
Formal (institution-based) or informal (field visits) training is
offered to clients on request based on the assessment of the
coordinator. Livelihood options are limited for the mentally disabled.
But Navajeevana is experimenting with a group farming exercise
involving four adult downs syndrome clients and one client with
physical disability. The family members of these clients are also
involved in cultivating the communal plot.
Problems we face in introducing income generation activities:
- Difficulty to raise capital for
income
generating ventures
- Difficulty to access traditional
forms of
credit
- Even other development agencies tend
by
by-pass disabled in their poverty programmes aimed at improving
livelihood
- Employers reluctance due to social
conditioning to accept disabled employees
- Misconceptions about productivity
and
work ethic of people with disabilities
- Securing markets for goods produced
by
self employed
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