Mission: Performance of marriages of physically challenged and visually challenged persons at organization’s cost. Uplifting and settlement of physically challenged specially the visually challenged through training and rehabilitation.
Organization Background: Vikalangula Kalyana Vedika was established by Mr. D. Subhash Gupta in the year 2000 and registered under Public Societies Registration Act in the year 2004 with a main aim to perform marriages of visually challenged and differently abled persons as the founder himself is visually challenged by birth and had come up in his life with lot of hardship and struggle and felt the need of helping physically and visually challenged and specifically for girls.
Hence on 27/06/2004 a free hostel and the rehabilitation center for the visually challenged girls was opened specially for the girls from rural areas with an aim to educate and rehabilitate them.
Achievements: So far our organization has performed 21 marriages successfully. Sale of 12,500 agarbathi packs to different organizations and through stalls in All India Industrial Exhibition and Rythu bazaars.
Rs. 11,000 was donated to poor and needy students of other hostels to support their education.
A free hostel and rehabilitation center was opened in June 2004 for blind girls. Helped two destitute women and their children are provided financial support initially to continue their primary education.
Our Vision: Coaching the visually challenged girls hailing from rural areas for academic qualifications to write 10th standard, Intermediate (10+2), and graduation privately. Teaching Braille script for visually challenged girls and support them in other income generation activities like candle and agarbathi making.
Our Supporters:
- Employees of Andhra Bank
- Employees of ECIL
- Business men
I went to this organization on my birthday Aug 20th, 2011. To be frank the site is not updated. There are lot of other good things i have seen there. Some of their activities are singing, dancing, skit, drama, vacations tours, sending blind people to mumbai for training (manufacturing perfume, incense sticks, candles, cooking, key chains, paper plates, education etc,. ).
17 people got govt jobs in central bank, sbi, etc,. they have also done marriages for 29 couples. They have marriage albums with them in which i have seen 7 albums. At first free hostel is only for girls, later it is extended to the boys also and both are having separate hostels near to each other. I have seen manufacturing paper plates unit at boys hostel.
At present 30 members in boys hostel and 30 in girls hostel.
Here is the photos of my experience uploaded to facebook..
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.248436968529928.60692.100000908809959&l=ed2adbc177