Today on 30th September on World Deafness Day in Ahmedabad, Pranit Hem Desai organized an event for kids with deafness in association with Tara Foundation.
Desai and Trustees of the foundation briefed media on the charitable activities for deafness in child.
Presently, in Gujarat there are 5 schools for deaf children and more schools are being planned. They have a plan to make Deafness Free Gujarat.
They provide help in hearing implants and medical treatment. For each children cost of operation comes to Rs 7 lakhs.
Before operation, level of deafness in child has be diagnosed. Poverty and lack of awareness were the reasons behind it said trustee of the foundation. They are getting good response from the government on the project.
About 50 people were invited to auction for the noble cause towards eradication of deafness, and articles like ancient gifts and watches were planned to sold for generating corpus funds.
There was a plan to collect Rs 43 lakhs for noble cause and donate it to Tara Foundation in furthering the activity.
The event was held in Hotel Marriot on SG Highway.
Tara Foundation strongly believes in the potential Of persons with disability & Hearing Impaired children to use their innate capacities, to reach their independent personal plus professional life. Our Core Activities Are : • To screen a child for finding out any physical, mental which may hamper development or normal functioning of a child or prove to be an impediment to achieve his/her full potential. • To organise camps, meetings, in collaboration with govt, govt aid institutions, NGOs for the purpose of screening. • To provide services or transportation for such children or their parents for availing such services or Modern Medical Treatment. • To procure implants, devices, equipment’s which may be required to support a disabled child & provide it for free or at charges decided by the Trust. • To provide services of Doctors, Therapists & Other services related to screening, investigation, medical care or rehabilitation. • To provide facilities like Audio logical and Radio logical investigations. Implants, Tools like Cochlear implants, Bone bridge implants, Brain-stem implants and Hearing aid. • To provide Therapeutic services, Rehabilitation services to hearing impaired child like Speech Therapy. • To provide services to all Genetically Deaf and Dumb children including services relating to Cochlear Implant.
