India
End stigmatisation and give new hope
Through the caste system, people are excluded from society.
As day labourers,
people from the lower classes often don’t earn enough to live on.
Poorly educated people
often suffer hunger and great hardship in rural regions.
About 15 percent
of the Indian population are considered malnourished.
In India, we cover these areas with aid:
Indien
Stigmatisierungen beenden und neue Hoffnung geben
Through the caste system,
people are excluded from society.
As day labourers,
people from the lower classes often don’t earn enough to live on.
Poorly educated people
often suffer hunger and great hardship in rural regions.
About 15 percent
of the Indian population are considered malnourished.
In India, we cover these areas with aid:
Help for people with disabilities
– A task for society as a whole
Whether sight, hearing, speech or mobility impairments, mental illness, and psychological and other disabilities – disabled people are particularly challenged in everyday life and often require special support. In India, these people have a lobby that has been active for several years. A separate department at the Indian Ministry of Social Justice addresses their concerns. This department wants to integrate people with disabilities more closely into society.
They should be given better opportunities to take part in working and social life to earn their own living and to have a say. They need to be provided with tools and family, teachers and other people assisting and helping them learn how to deal with the limitations appropriately. According to the Ministry, the attitude of Indians also needs to change so that people with disabilities are regarded as full members of society.
This task also calls for the commitment of civil society organisations. wortundtat has found a partner that is involved in this area and whose commitment is shaped by Christian fundamental values. Cooperation has been planned for several years.
Our partners in India
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People with disabilities need support
– especially important in rural areas
- The issue of inclusion is largely ignored and infrastructure – roads, public buildings, educational institutions and local public transport, etc. – is virtually unprepared.
- In the still broad social strata, in which the caste system is especially pronounced, disability is regarded as a consequence of divine punishment. This affects both people without and with disabilities alike: Some look down on others and people with limitations have low self-esteem.
Many people with disabilities are on their own in India. Only a few people receive systematic help. wortundtat wants to help change this.
The spotlight is on women and children with disabilities
– making inclusion possible
In addition, people are provided with tools that make learning and taking part in life easier for them or even enabling them to do this for the first time. Help may be a wheelchair, glasses, a hearing aid or any other kind of help. The underlying idea: if entry barriers into society are overcome using appropriate tools, people with disabilities will have the same opportunities as people who are not so limited.
Time and time again, visitors encounter people with disabilities on the street in India. But often neither infrastructure nor resources are geared to the needs of such people.
India – Living with disabilities
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Current reports from our projects
Computer skills training rooms – established
wortundtat has made the world’s knowledge tangible for KIUMA: Three rooms for computer training help learners and the local community.
Accompanying Ukrainian women to more independence
With the Skills Training Centre, our Greek partner Hellenic Ministries has been supporting refugee women, mainly from Iran, Afghanistan and Ukraine, since 2019. They receive help on their way to a more independent life.
Finally reading and writing in Greece
Saade, a 35-year-old Afghan, learns to read and write for the first time in her life with our partner in Greece. This opens up a whole new world for her.
