Concept Note –Vanni Special Needs People’s Care Home and Integrated Farm Training Centre

 

Background

1. After 30 years of war and numerous natural disasters, there are many in Sri Lanka in extremely difficult circumstances. Special needs children and differently abled persons are among the most vulnerable and most marginalised groups of people in Sri Lanka.

2. According to the census statistics of 2012, there are 1,617,924 individuals with either a mental or physical impairment in the total population. The majority of persons had visual impairments (nearly 1 million), followed by difficulty in walking (nearly 735,000).[1] When looking at impaired persons in the school going age group (5 to 19 years), 30,308 out of 88,740 were not engaged in educational activities. In particular, 20.3% of primary school aged children with impairments (5 to 9 years) were not receiving any kind of formal education.[2]

Vision

1. The vision is:

   1. To create a centre that can be a focal point in providing assistance to special needs children and differently abled persons who are affected by war and natural disasters.

   2. To create a home environment that is safe, friendly, and inclusive to such persons.

   3. To respect the human rights of such persons to create an environment of joy and hope for their future.

   4. To provide such persons with basicneedsto help live content and independent lives, including nutrition and medical care, education, and vocational and livelihood training.

Action Plan

1. The implementing organisation will be the Vanni Special Needs Home Managing  Committee. The vision will be carried out by the following action plan:

   1. Providing vocational training for beneficiaries to bring out their skills and talents.

   2. Providing basic education, including reading and writing.

   3. Providing counselling services to help individual deal with the consequences of trauma and depression.

   4. Providing targeted education to special needs children.

   5. Providing opportunities to engage in cultural activities, including dance and music.Activities

2. The care home will have three focus areas:

   1. Building a care home for boys and girls aged between the age of 5yrs to 25yrs years of age. The home will cater for equal numbers of boys and girls. The purpose of the home will be to Male & 50Female

   2. Creating a vocational training centre for special needs youth. The types of activities envisaged for the training centre include, carpentry, farming, handicraft, aluminium fittings, Poultry, cattle raring.

   3. Creating a children’s nutrition home. The purpose of the nutrition home will be to improve the health and prevention of disease.

3. The integrated farm will cover crop as well as livestock farming.

4. The livestock farming will include:

   1. Cattle rearing with for milking (approx. 5 cows), requiring approx. half an acre of land.

   2. Goats (approx. 5), on approx. ½ acre of land.

   3. Rabbits (approx. 100), on approx. ½ acre of land.

   4. Poultry/country birds (approx. 1000), on approx. ½ acre of land.

5. The crop farming will include:

   1. Coconuts (approx. 200), on approx. ½ acre of land.

   2. Cashew trees (approx. 300), on approx. ½ acre of land.

   3. Cinnamon trees, on approx. ¾ acre of land.

   4. Coffee plants, on approx. ¾ acre of land.

   5. Pineapples/citrus fruit (approx. 100 trees), on approx. ½ acre of land.

   6. Pomegranate/papaya/lime/passionfruit (approx. 100 trees), on approx. ½ acre of land.

   7. Grapevines, on ½ acre of land.

   8. Vegetables (such as Beans, tomoto, brinjol, carrot, cabbage ect), on ½ acre of land.

   9. Araknutsewing with beatle (approx. 100 trees), on ½ acre of land.

   10. Beatle (approx. 50 trees), on ½ acre of land.

6. The integrated farms will require andeep well, a tank, and pipe lines.

 

Sr.Lourds Joseph,

President,

Home of Joy for Special Need Children,

A9 Road, Mankulam,

Sri Lanka.

 

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