Bongaigoan (Assam): Around
10% of world population live with disability and has been increasing due to
different reasons, problems and circumstances. Unfortunately, according to UNDP,
80% persons with disability are living in developing country. Contrarily,
UNICEF reported that 30% of street youth have some kind of disability.
Coming
forward to Assam, the disability among women, youth, children and old age are
related to ethnic violence. People have developed some sort of fear; do not
want to go back and ready to survive in a vulnerable condition.
Only
mental disability is not the concern of Rehab, because the percent of
physically disabled are quite high and increasing as population is increasing.
Observing
such condition, Rehab started Model Village in Bongaigoan, Assam, distributed 45
houses and running different welfare programmes.
Keeping
eyes over increasing number of mentally and physically disabled persons in
Bongaigoan, we started a group for mentally and physically disabled persons at
Rehab Model Village on August 20, 2013.
The group
includes 11 members who have been suffering from mental and physical disorder.
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