Promoting Rights of the Disables:
People with disabilities are the most vulnerable amongst the disadvantaged groups of people in Bangladesh. The availability of supportive policies and therapeutic services are also remarkably limited. The people with disabilities are kept out of the development process mainly due to lack of consciousness of people who devise and put into practice development programs, negative approach among general population prevalent towards people with disabilities, insufficiency of resources and lack of understanding and skills on how to deal with needs of people with disabilities inside development programs. Very limited numbers of people with disabilities are caught up in mainstream employment activities. One of the key reasons is that a limited number of disable people have the necessary professional skills to be mixed up in economic activities. Vocational training centers scarcely offer tailored skill training to the people with disabilities. The development organizations also lack the proper initiatives, knowledge or skills to incorporate disable people in their skill producing training. Besides inadequate services like Braille, sign, speech therapy, etc touches limitation of the inclusion scopes. The organization has been implementing a project titled “Disable Development, Rehabilitation and Primary Aid Support” from July, 2005 in partnership with National Disable Development Foundation, Dhaka with financial assistance from Stichting Liliane Fonds, Netherlands and European Union, Light for the world, The Netherlands through Centre for Disability in Development (CDD). Primary rehabilitation therapy, parents meeting, vocational training, health and nutritional supports, arranging sports for disable children and distributing assisting devices are main activities of the project. The organization also puts high emphasis on the inclusion of disable children into formal and non-formal education. Also, PSUS organizes art competition, music competition and sports for the disable children.
