Polio seems fairly common amongst the children here. This organization has its headquarters in Indiranagar in Bangalore andseveral branches all over Karnataka State. They provide education, therapyand day care to not only spastic children, but also children with other kindsof special needs or disabilities. The following is from their sitevisit report. We were told that thisis the main occupation in the area and entire families typically works onmaking agarbathis.
Some families supplement their income by making packagingmaterial for sweets.
En route, we had been briefed on to howthis school had been started. The main center at Indiranagar began to noticethat a high number of families from Agrahara were bringing theirpolio-afflicted children for therapy. Therefore, they decided to start amodest school in the village itself and this started out on an experimentalbasis in the courtyard of a temple. Recently, they moved from the templepremises to a small rented room. There are 16 children enrolled here and allof them have various kinds of disabilities.