Muskaan is a place where everyone, people with special needs ( intellectual disability), parents, professionals, volunteers and larger community finds a world that is happy, caring and full of hope. There is immense faith in human capabilities and tremendous opportunities for growth. Our young friends at Muskaan can not leave one without a humanizing impact. They bring forth in consciousness the deepest human values of love, joy, compassion and respect for diversity. Working with persons with special needs is a deeply humanizing and life transforming experience.
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The young men and women at Muskaan have proved that, given the opportunity, they blossom as responsible, caring and loving individuals. Lack of learning and work opportunity, and not the intellectual disability, is the barrier in living a productive life.
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Indian society has traditionally been family an inclusive society. Strong family system and neighbourhood took care of people who needed support of various kind. Letter half of the twentieth century saw some major changes in the way people live. It affected the support systems which took care of many human needs including people requiring support to manage their lives and one such vulnerable group has been people with intellectual & developmental disability.
A group of concerned parents and professionals recognized the need and started a movement to secure the rights of intellectually challenged children and adults. The outcome was enactment of several legislations.
Muskaan has several friends and well wishers in USA who have provided immense support in raising funds for Muskaan building and various programs & services. Its office is located at New Jersey and managed by Ms. Sushma Kumar.
Address: Ms. Sushma Kumar
43, Whitewood Drive
Morris Planes, NJ
U.S.A.
Ph. 973-455-7287
Ms. Sudha Auluck, Mr. Ramesh Kochhar, Ms. Sushma Kumar and Ms. Poonam Auluck Shah have devoted immense efforts in raising funds for Muskaan through their friends and relatives.
We are truly overwhelmed by the immense support that we have been getting from friends in the community. It is difficult to list all of them. They have helped us in building infrastructure through generous donations of money and professional skills. Many have helped us in running various training and other programs, creating awareness about the capabilities of intellectually challenged persons, marketing the products made by them.
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The field of intellectual disability need good professionals who are creative thinkers, determination and patience to test innovative ways of learning and teaching and above all compassion and perseverance in understanding the learning and emotional needs of young adults with intellectual disability.
See the websites for specialized courses in the field
Sector B, Pocket 2, Vasant Kunj
New Delhi - 110 070, India.
Tel : 91-11-41761873 / 41761874
