What we stand for

Our Mission

Empowering independence, dignity, and belonging

A Vruksh student playing on climbing equipment outdoors

  1. Delivering adaptive educational programs for individuals with a wide spectrum of neurodevelopmental, intellectual, and physical needs.

  2. Our early intervention programs for children under five are designed to actively mitigate the progression of ASD characteristics and intellectual challenges, effectively halting further developmental regression and maximizing long-term outcomes.

  3. Providing multi-disciplinary, age-appropriate therapy services tailored to the evolving needs of every individual we serve.

  4. Fostering independence and self-reliance through comprehensive vocational training and skill development.

  5. Cultivating employment opportunities to support them in becoming Self-sustained individuals.

  6. We strive to integrate all individuals with special needs into the community

  7. Guiding them to get the benefits the Government and making them to realize their rights in different aspects.

  8. Providing compassionate psychological and emotional guidance to enhance the overall well-being of parents and families.

  9. Ensuring our facilities are accessible to all individuals with special needs across all age groups, physical abilities, and intellectual developmental stages.

· For children below 5 years

An early intervention program will be provided. It consists of an assessment of intellectual levels and an assessment of therapy needs.

Assessment of Intellectual level.

It is done in various phases like Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Cognition, Self – help, Speech & Communication, Social skills.

Assessment of Therapy needs.

  • Physical therapy
  • Occupational therapy
  • Speech therapy
  • Individual and group Play therapy
  • Sensory integration.

Therapy Services :

Need based and age appropriate therapy will be provided ­.

Children belonging to the early intervention group will be provided with occupational therapy based on their assessment findings to enable them to carry out their activities of daily living. To improve their social skills, play therapy and speech therapy will be provided, and physiotherapy will be provided to improve their mobility. These therapies will be delivered by experienced professionals from a multidisciplinary team which consists of a special educator, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, and speech-language pathologist.

To help adults maintain their fitness, reduce obesity, and manage problem behaviors, physical exertion will be encouraged through high-intensity exercises and the use of equipment such as treadmills, static cycles, elliptical trainers, rowing machines, and staircase climbers.

· Skill development training program for the Vocational Group.

Individuals above 16 years of age are trained in various skills which are as follows :

Pre – requisites to fit them in a Vocation.

Counting, Sorting, Cutting and Pasting, Stacking, Filing, Packing, Shifting things from one place to other. Arranging things in shelves etc..

Life enhancing Skills.

Housekeeping skills.

Cloth folding, Dishwashing, Wiping, Moping, Drying clothes, Arranging the things in the right place, Ironing clothes, Putting pillow covers, Spreading bed cover on the bed. Rolling mats, etc,

Basic computer skills

Students are trained in computer skills that prepare them for office-based employment:

  • * Data Entry
  • * MS Word
  • * MS Excel

Economic empowerment skills :

cookery skills :

  • Cleaning and Cutting vegetables
  • Peeling & Chopping
  • Tea making
  • Vazhapoo aydhal (cleaning banana flower)
  • Peas, broad beans peeling
  • Keerai aydhal
  • Sprout making

To encourage them every day a dish is made as follows.

  • Monday : Sprout Bhelpuri /Vegetable Soup.
  • Tuesday : Cucumber salad / Fruit salad / Sundal, Groundnut Laddu.
  • Wednesday : Salem Thattai Set / sweet corn
  • Thursday : Chapathi with Chenna Masala /Thakkali thokku / Dhal tadka as side dish or vegetable rice
  • Friday : Vegetable Sandwich making.

Beyond all activities mentioned above Handmade flowers using cloth, Thamboolam flowers are done by the students with the assistance of our staff members.

Jewellery making is done with the guidance of our staff members. They are trained to make Necklaces, Anklets, Bracelets & so on.

Out of News Paper, students are trained to make trash covers, packing covers of different sizes.

Our students participate in an engaging hands on activity of creating gift envelopes

The income generated through the above mentioned activities is distributed as stipend to the students of Vocational group once in 6 months.

On-the-Job Training Program

This is our dream project. While we have taken our very first step by inaugurating a small training room, we still have a long way to go to fully realise our ultimate vision.

Project Concept

Our pre-vocational students undergo comprehensive training designed to build essential workplace and life skills, including:

  • · Weighing and packing groceries (such as rice, toor dal, and urad dal) into 1kg retail packs.
  • · Identifying different product brands.
  • · Picking grocery items from shelves based on a provided shopping list.
  • · Data entry by logging items and their MRPs into Excel to calculate total values.
  • · Developing financial literacy through practical money management skills.
  • · Enhancing communication abilities through interactive role-playing exercises.

Current Impact & Future Vision

To date, three students have successfully graduated from the training program with 90% efficiency and are now formally employed within the project. We are incredibly proud to share that they are earning a regular monthly remuneration.

Moving forward, we aim to employ many more students through this initiative and have a broad vision to scale and expand the project significantly.