On ‘International Day for People with Disabilities’ Students of Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan organize an Awareness Campaign in Noida

 To observe the ‘International Day for People with Disabilities’ on 3^rd December, 2015, special children of the Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan which is an initiative of The Ponty Chadha Foundation, organized an awareness campaign reaching out to people at various locations. The UN-sanctioned day that is observed throughout the world aims at sensitizing people about the issues and concerns the differently-abled persons face in the society.

With an endeavour to spread the message of empathy and care, ‘children with special needs’ put the blue and orange Twibbon on people’s clothes and clicked selfies with them. They requested people to share these selfies on their social network pages to spread the cause further. Children visited leading Corporate, Schools, Universities, and Malls & Markets to reach out to maximum people and sensitize them about the cause – Wave Corporate office, Express Trade Tower, J.C. World, Jaypee Hospital, Sify, Infoedge, Seven Promises, Mercer, Mentor, Genesis Global School, Amity University, Summerville School, JBM School, Wave Mall, GIP Mall, Select City Walk amongst many other locations. These special children were received with great warmth and people enthusiastically clicked pictures with them.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Vandana Sharma, Director, Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan School said, “We wish change people’s perception about disability. With this awareness campaign we are trying to reach out to people and make them understand that with positive attitude and support these special children can also live their lives with pride and dignity within the community. We aim at breaking the attitudinal barriers with this campaign.”

The celebrations of the occasion aimed at improving the understandings of the people worldwide towards the people with disability issues and get together to support them to improve their well-being and rights in the society. The focus is also to break the myths, stereotypes and prejudices associated with disability.

About Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan

With the vision of enabling the disabled, Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan, an initiative of Late Mr. Ponty Chadha, WAVE Group was established for the differently-abled children in the society. The institution was founded in 1999, with a special endeavor to educate and equip special children to live within the community. The school is one of the very few private rehabilitation institutions, which provides gratuitous service to over 1000 students (free of cost), subjugating the cash-strapped society.

Spread over a huge expanse of 2 acres, MBCN is the largest day-care special school. Students are endowed with free hearing aids, wheel chairs, crutches, uniform, stationary and bus-transport, fostering independence for daily living skills in real life settings.

About The Ponty Chadha Foundation

The Ponty Chadha Foundation was set-up in the memory of Late Chairman Mr. Gurdeep (Ponty) Singh Chadha of the WAVE Group, led by his wife Mrs. Jatinder Kaur Chadha, to work for the general welfare of the society. The Foundation aims to channelize its capabilities towards social and economic development of the society at large and help the needy, underprivileged and weaker sections of the society irrespective of differences in caste, creed, colour, sex or religion. Its endeavour is to impart education, medical relief and food to the deprived through food bank.

The Ponty Chadha Foundation keeps community service in the forefront and is committed to work for alleviating the common social challenges faced by the poor and the otherwise neglected sections. It is dedicatedly working towards the upliftment of the society, by regularly conducting free medical check-up camps and food drives. The most remarkable contribution by The Ponty Chadha Foundation is establishment of MBCN – Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan, the school for the differently-abled.