Disability

Sunny Splendor is a great piece of engineering – a solar vehicle that works as a mobile shop for people with disabilities to start up small businesses and earn a living. It was designed by Hari Vasudevan of Ostrich Mobility, and this is how it works.

Meet Vilas Shinde – a man whose indomitable spirit is taking Ataxia, a debilitating condition, by its horns. This is his inspiring story as he fights a daily battle for dignity and survival.

She could not walk alone herself once. She now helps others walk. Meet Tiffany, the woman with visual disability, who has a vision beyond the ordinary.

From the outside it may look like a regular spa, but step in and you will realize why it is special. The Metta spa, which gets its name from a Pali word translated as ‘loving kindness,’ only hires visually impaired masseurs. And for its kind and special owner, Joanita Figueredo, there is no greater joy than seeing her employees fulfil their ambitions in Mumbai, the city of dreams.

The ‘I am Special’ calendar, , brought out by Swarga Foundation, Coimbatore, features people with neurological disorders, with the aim of spreading awareness about these disorders and sharing the stories of the special people who have overcome disabilities to live productive and fulfilling lives.

Pushpa Singh, a 26-year-old girl from a small village in Uttar Pradesh, has been physically disabled since birth. Today, she has been elected to the Block Development Council (BDC) in her area. This is her story.

Sandeep Kumar was just seven when doctors gave him an expired penicillin injection. It left him in a coma for a year followed by paralysis in the lower half of his body. Today, this 24-year-old man, who is the first paraplegic to be employed by the aviation industry, glides around on a wheelchair at Delhi airport – helping other people with disabilities.

The Savera School team believed that just giving education to the kids with special needs was not enough. That's when they came up with a model which gives these kids an opportunity to also hone their vocational skills. Read success stories of children with special needs who now have a chance to become independent.

The Accessible India campaign is auditing 27 international airports and 75 railway stations to identify areas that need to be improved and made disabled-friendly by July 2016. This inclusiveness aims to give equal opportunities to some 2.68 crore differently-abled in the society.

28-year-old Anjan Satheesh is hearing impaired and has cerebral palsy. But he has never let this come in the way of achieving his life goals. He has not only received praise from prominent personalities like Abdul Kalam and Sachin Tendulkar, but also won a national award recently.