An Exposure Visit Organized Recently for the Mentally Disabled Women

KOLKATA, India - March 6, 2015 - PRLog -- In connection to rehabilitate the mentally ill women in the mainstream society, Asha Bhavan Centre organizes an exposure visit each and every year with inmates of Dominique Lapierre (DL) Home for the mentally III women. This year on February 18, such a programme was organized at Nicco Park, Kolkata.

Thirty-five inmates visited Nicco Park with proper guidance and care of eleven caregivers and support staffs. The inmates were quite excited and thrilled to avail the different joy rides such as horse ride, toy train, ropeway, boating and river cave ride.

Nutritious tiffin as well as lunch with soft drinks was given to all the support staffs and the inmates. The participants enjoyed the tour quite a lot and came back to their shelter with a charming experience.

When asked one of the inmates regarding her experience at Nicco Park, she said that she had a lot of fun. Although she was feeling a bit scared first, she enjoyed riding on the ropeway the most.

Asha Bhavan Centre is an NGO that provides comprehensive rehabilitation services to the mentally ill women. It has set up the DL home for these kinds of women in 2001 to offer residential care as well as cure support with vocational training and counseling. The DL home now has sixty mentally ill women.

These mentally ill women who stay at the DL home are provided with medium and short term occupational and psychosocial therapy. Asha Bhavan Centre's main aim is to extend rehabilitation support to these poor rural women and to provide education to the rural people on mental disability.

The NGO mainly works keeping in mind the concept that they initiated in 1999-community based rehabilitation in India. So, they do every possible thing to:

provide comprehensive rehabilitation services to the mentally ill women

improve the socio-economic condition of the persons with disabilities

ensure human rights to physically disabled persons

Asha Bhavan Centre also works to:

improve the socio-economic condition of the marginalized community

offer growth, development and welfare of the underprivileged children from marginalized community

About Asha Bhavan Centre
Asha Bhavan Centre is an NGO dedicated to the growth, welfare and development of the underprivileged children and people from the margininalized community. It iscommitted towards protecting and ensuring the rights of children and people with physical and mental disabilities.

For more information:
visit@ http://www.abcindia.org

West Bengal, India.
Phone: + 91-33-26613197/ 32953743
Fax: +91-33-26613196