Saransh

Saransh is a registered charitable trust working with people with disability in villages of India under the Indian Trust Act. Saransh primarily works towards the betterment of the disabled and the poor in villages. Saransh is currently working in states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Saransh believe in promoting equal participation of the disabled and their women in community, society with enhanced visibility and facilitate their overall development by providing resources and creating a bridge between the haves and the have-nots.

Initially, Saransh was working for the disabled, SC, ST, OBC, old age and under-privileged groups. But later, seeing the different kinds of harassment being faced by the disabled, Saransh emerged with a new mission of working for these special group. Saransh consists of peoples who are physically handicapped, mentally retarded, who have lost their thinking capacity and sensory impairment.

Saransh have come up with a mission to stand for the disabled to empower and to motivate providing the basic needs and giving a platform to raise their voice to sustain and encourage them for a better life.

Training Support

Saransh has designed a variety of training, support programs and workshops in order to set up self-help groups (SHGs) to assist persons from villages, the disabled, and people below the poverty line, enabling them to be independent and achieve their goals with dignity.

Saransh also provide the disabled with the required raw materials after completion of training, and once they make the products we buy the whole produce at market price to sell it in different corporate. By purchasing directly from artisan groups and offering advance payments on orders, Saransh increases the income levels of artisan groups and prevents the accumulation of long-term debts.

Saransh has been successful in reaching and supporting 128 villages (86 SHGs) in south India.

Aim

To reform and rejuvenate training and marketing visibility to the disabled to enable them to be independent and achieve their goals with dignity

Objective

• Empowering the disabled by providing resources, creating awareness, instilling integrity, imparting confidence and bridging the gap between the haves and have-nots
• To provide need based quality program and enable them to earn their daily bread
• To conduct awareness programs to ensure they get enough exposure to their rights and make them walk in the mainstream of society
• To conduct medical camps, health & sanitation programs and channelise for their medical expenses

Activities

• Organize artisan self-help groups for the disabled and people under the poverty line
• Encourage economic activity through a collective mode by creating integrated linkages
• Provide easy access to domestic and overseas market through exhibitions
• Upgrade skills through appropriate design and technological intervention
• Improving quality of production and productivity to increase market share
• Involve all members in marketing process for production, business and income
• Set up cultural home and central training unit

Special Schemes

• Identification of village crafts and art objects having a linkage with the cultural heritage of Communities of South India
• Systematic and scientific documentation of indigenous village crafts
• Location of traditional village craft groups and identification of skilled artisans
• Design development in village crafts and art objects
• Skill up gradation of village craft persons & the disabled
• Employment guarantee program for women & disabled in craft production
• Provision of marketing facilities for the disabled and artisan
• Entrepreneurship training to the disabled and village craft persons
• Creation of export market for promotion of village craft and art objects
• Train them in written English, listening skills, logic, communication, teamwork etc.
• Provide awareness about marketing, advertisement, online sales and computers
• We partner with our disabled SHGs and artisans in giving raw materials, marketing, design, and business support as well as teaching and implementing fair trade principles and practices.
• Saransh gives artisans an opportunity to improve their living standards, and continue with their livelihoods - the tradition of Indian crafts. Furthermore through our trained welfare professionals, Saransh supports the community.

SHG’s of the Anekal Taluk, Bangalore urban district

Name	Leader	Members	Bank Acct.	# of disabled	MD	MR
Unnati Menasana halli	Annayappa	10	Yes	6	0	4
Unnati Pump House	Ganesh k	7	Yes	4	1	2
Unnati Thalagara halli	Manjunatha	7	Yes	4	3	0
Unnati D K Bagilu	Ajmal Pasha	7	Yes	6	1	0
Unnati Geratigana belle	Vijay Kumar	9	Yes	7	2	0
Unnati Thigalla beedi	RajaGopalappa	7	Yes	6	1	0
Unnati Bahadur Pura	Ramappa	8	Yes	5	2	1
Unnati Vinayaka Nagar	Vijay Kumar	6	Yes	3	0	3
Unnati Narayan Pura	Ramesh	5	Yes	5	0	0
Unnati Choodena Halli	Nanjunda Reddy	6	Yes	3	0	3

(MR stands for Mentally Retarded, MD stands for Multiple Disability)

In the above manner, Saransh has set up more than 60 SHGs in Tamil Nadu, out of which 36 are actively under Saransh and the remaining have become independent enterprises with Saransh support.

Products made by Self-help Groups of the Differently Abled

• Agarbatti (essential oils)
• Ceramics
• Perfumed candles (natural flowers)
• Coconut tree products
• Palm leaf paintings
• Soft marble products
• Wood free handmade paper products
• Wood products
• Stone sculpture
• Bamboo products
• Leather items
• Hammock
• Khadi cloth (Kurtas)
• Paintings
• Jute products

External links

• Saransh - Empowering Differently Abled (NGO)
• Home of Love
• Hia Foundation
• Hia Education Trust
• Hia Trust
• Hia Centre for Learning
• Hia Institute of Information Technology

References

• "Saransh Ablemp Program". http://newsletters.cii.in/newsletters/csr/.../regional_roundup.html. Retrieved 2007-12-03. 
• "Saransh Ablemp Competition". http://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/2642-International-Day-of-Disabled-Persons-December.aspx. Retrieved 2007-12-03. 
• "Saransh Ablemp Blog". http://ablemp.wordpress.com/.../ablemp-07-able-empowerment-day-2007. Retrieved 2007-12-03.