Let’s All United in Group with Hope (LAUGH)

With financial support from LF Netherlands, in collaboration with the Disability Development and Research Association (DDRA) and the implementation of Prattasha Samazik Unnayan Sangstha (PSUS), the project “Let’s All United in Group with Hope (LAUGH)” is being implemented in Chuadanga Sadar and Alamdanga Upazilas. The project focuses on providing therapy to children with Down syndrome, arranging medical care, and ensuring healthcare services through referral linkages. An overview of the project is as follows:

Project Name: Let’s All United in Group with Hope (LAUGH)

Donor: LF Netherlands

Total Beneficiaries: Men – 230, Women – 200, Adolescent Boys – 85, Adolescent Girls – 50, Youth – 120, Disabled Individuals – 50, Harijan – 25, Dalit – 56, Blacksmiths – 9, Potters – 16, Dasis – 83, Fishermen – 23. Total: 947.

Duration: January 1, 2019 to December 2022

Overall Project Goal:
To teach letter recognition, counting, writing, drawing, and dancing to underprivileged children with Down syndrome, enroll them in schools, and bring them under inclusive education. Provide therapy, arrange medical care, and ensure healthcare services through referral linkages.

Project Objectives:

Objective 1: Teach letter recognition, counting, writing, drawing, dancing, enroll children with Down syndrome in school, and bring them under inclusive education.

Objective 2: Provide therapy to children with Down syndrome, arrange medical care, and ensure healthcare services through referral linkages.

Activity:

• Home-based lifelong learning and appropriate education support for 200 individuals by parents and CBR workers
• Provide need based medical & rehabilitation support towards the identified children.
• Functioning telemedicine services from the National service point for Down syndrome in collaboration with the ministry of health At Upazilla hospital
• Day observation- World Down Syndrome Day
• Monthly and quarterly project coordination meeting at PO

Project Output/Outcome:

Through this project, 50 children with Down syndrome have been taught letter recognition, counting, writing, drawing, and dancing, enrolled in school, and brought under inclusive education. Additionally, therapy has been provided to 50 children with Down syndrome, medical care has been arranged, and healthcare services have been ensured through referral linkages.