Kalyani LIfe Institute

About us

Kalyani Life Institute, established in 2010, is a non governmental organisation and located in Kalyani,West Bengal. Kalyani Life Institute is an organisation for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities like Autism, Cerebral Palsy and other intellectual impairment like Downs' Syndrome. The organisation starts working by some parents of such people.

Kalyani Life Institute first took shape as a charitable organization, fulfilling categorical needs to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. It was founded with concepts and agony of some parents of five autistic, Mentally Retarded and Cerebral Palsy children.

Our Vision
Kalyani Life Institute’s mission is to empower people with disabilities through its rehabilitation and development center. Every child has the right to education with an acceptable level of learning.

Mission
We champion the rights and interests of all people with Autism, Asperger´s, Dyslexia, etc. and aim to provide these individuals and their families with help, support and services that they can access, trust and rely upon, which can make positive difference in their lives. Our mission is Inclusion, Mainstreaming and Segregation for betterment.

Our work:
Kalyani life institute has started functioning since early part of 2010 with five special children and their parents. One parent has donated a piece of land and we built a temporary structure over it. In the year of 2014 we have got accommodation in a Government school premises. And our beneficiaries count multiplied to triple. We have been registered to the National Trust in the year of 2016. We have started school in our own rented premises in 2016. We have started Disha for early intervention and Vikaas for Day care school. Our children count touched 50. We have started Niramaya, a reimbursement scheme under Oriental Insurance. Baby count reaches to 90. We have started Sahayogi scheme for mother's awareness. 50 more parents came and trained. We have organised a computer center for differently abled babies. We have already got a piece of land from Municipality and we are developing it for a Vocational Training Center.

Programmes:
• Life-skills training and fundamental education: The Kalyani Life Institution currently provides day care to Ninety-Four children and youngs with developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy, autism, mentally retarded and Down’s syndrome. The program includes basic social and life-skills training, and fundamental education focusing on counting and reading skills.

Projects:
• Disha - This is an early intervention and school readiness scheme for children upto 10 years with the disabilities, ie Autism, Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation.
• Vikaas - A day care scheme for persons with autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disabilities, above 10 years for enhancing interpersonal and vocational skills.
• Sahayogi - A scheme to set up Caregiver Cells (CGCs) for training and creating skilled workforce of caregivers to care for Person with Disabilities (PwD) and their families.
• Badte Kadam - To carry out activities for increasing the awareness of Autism, Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation.
• Niramaya - This scheme is to provide affordable Health Insurance.

Siddhartha Sankar Mukhopadhyay is the Chief Functionary of Kalyani Life Institute.

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