Prerana Educational Centre - A project of The North Bengal Council for the Disabled.
We are a centre focused on assisting and providing proper education and rehabilitation facilities for those who are differently abled.
About Prerana Educational Centre...
The Prerana Educational Centre is a cross-disability center, which means that children with all types of disabilities such as visual, hearing, and speech impairments, cerebral palsy as well as intellectual and developmental disabilities including Autism and Orthopaedic challenges, they come and study as well as receive rehabilitation along with therapy at the centre. Out of many such students, 40 of our children are visually challenged and are provided with residential facilities because they come from surrounding tea gardens, villages, and remote areas and cannot commute on a daily basis. All services such as tuition, transport, food, uniform, and books are provided free of cost, as the majority of our family are from underprivileged backgrounds.
Our
Story
How did we begin?
Our School has been promoting the aims and objectives of the organisation, which was an initiative of our late founder, captain J.K Sengupta, who became visually impaired after the 1965 Indo-Pak war. Over the last many years, we have gone from having just 5 students to over 130!
What Else do we do?
We also run a vocational training centre for the young adults with disabilities in which they receive training in various trades such as tailoring, screen printing, cane basket weaving, and making decorative items. prerana also has an outreach program through a communit based rehabilitative training project in which 60+ children with disabilities are supported with individual home based training.
Where we began...
Our Objectives -:
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To undertake strategic interventions such as habilitation and rehabilitation, health, education, livelihood, and social empowerment.
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To work with the Government, private sector, civil societies, and other stakeholders of strategic importance
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To generate awareness among the public on disability-related issues.
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To undertake advocacy and campaigning initiatives.
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To design, develop and publish information, education, and communication material.
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A glimpse into how it started and how it's going
Our
Milestones
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Founded in April 1998.
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Gained 4 Students and 3 Volunteers after establishment.
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Grant in aid from MSJ & E in December 99' upto 2011
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CBM Partnership began in January 2002.
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Recognized by the mass education department of W.B. in March 2001.
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Shifted to NBCD Bhawan in April 2003.
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PEC'S new home in 2005 outside Siliguri town in Salugarah with a fully disabilty friendly infrastructure gifted by CBM in our own land.
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Granted affiliation with IICP in September 2009.
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The vocational training center was inaugurated in September 2010.
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The Mayor of Siliguri allotted a retail outlet for Prerana craft corner in 2012.
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