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Polio and Children in Need Charity has been supporting Little Drops Charity Trust, a Scottish registered charity, with grant funds for their Shravana Project since 2017. 

A young girls smiles as she perceives sound for the first time with her new hearing aids

A young girls smiles as she perceives sound for the first time with her new hearing aids

Boys posing with their new hearing aids

Boys posing with their new hearing aids

The Shravana Project provides screening, evaluation, fitting of hearing aids, and speech therapy to children with profound hearing loss, particularly those from families living below the poverty line. It aims to integrate the children into mainstream schools.

Young girl at a follow-up visit to get hearing checked

A young girls smiles as she perceives sound for the first time with her new hearing aids

Hearing aids for even the youngest.

Hearing aids for even the youngest.

The services provided by the Shravana Project are free of charge and include helping identified children to develop speech, language, communication, and verbal intelligence so they can obtain education, employment, and partnerships in life. By 2020, grants from PACINC had helped more than 60 children. 

Marupalli

In 2018, PACINC provided funds to the Rural Development Welfare Society, a local NGO, to set up and operate a fully equipped vocational training programme for disabled and unemployed youth in Marupalli, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Trainees receiving instructions in cutting

Trainees receiving instructions in cutting

Trainees at the sewing machines

Trainees at the sewing machines

The primary aim is to provide vocational skills to school dropouts and disabled persons, especially those from marginalized communities

Inauguration of the Vocational Training Project

Inauguration of the Vocational Training Project

The inaugural batch pose for a group photo

The inaugural batch pose for a group photo

Since the onset of this programme, 60 girls have been trained in sewing, stitching, and tailoring, which has provided them with the skills needed to secure paying jobs in their local community or to start their own tailoring business. 

Surat

In 2015, Polio and Children in Need Charity provided five specially designed and reinforced wheelchairs to the Disable Welfare Trust of India, a NGO based in Surat. The beneficiaries were girls with severe mobility issues that had rendered them homebound. 

"Now we can move around in our village, participate in recreational activities and also travel by bus with ease,"one recipient stated.  . 
“It’s the best present I have ever had,”
echoed  another.

Girls beaming after receiving wheelchairs

Girls beaming after receiving wheelchairs

Chennai

In 2017, Polio and Children in Need Charity (PACINC) provided financial support to Little Drops Charity Trust, a Scottish registered charity, for procurement of food for orphans at the St Joseph’s Social Service Center, Chennai, India. 

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