5.2 Profile of Non-governmental Organizations of/ for Persons with Disabilities

The Center provides basic rehabilitation, textiles training, workshops, job placement services, social rehabilitation services, telephone operators training, teachers training; elementary education (separate for boys and girls), adult education classes, Braille, talking books and large print library, pick up services for blind students, separate hostels for male and female blind students, transcription and production of Braille books, sporting integrated program of education, financing of higher education; provision of specialized equipment, travel concession facilities, maintenance stipends for poor blind, provision of food on subsidized rate and general welfare.

Darakhshan Resource and Training Center for Girls and Women with disabilities was established in 1990 as a rehabilitation project of the Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness. The objective of the center is to enable the disadvantaged of the community to become income generating and self-reliant members of the family.

The school provides classes for the deaf, blind and senior citizens and maintains a Braille library. The school maintains a complex of 40 rooms with up-to-date facilities. It maintains the graduation level for first degree college for the blind in the country.

Milestone, Society for the Special Persons was established in March 1993 by PWDs to make themselves useful for their families as well as for their country. The society mainly focuses on awareness raising, capacity building, provision of basic facilities and normalizing PWDs into mainstream society.

Provides services for the prevention and care for blind people. Maintains a Braille press, education materials, and distribution of medicine.

Provides and arranges Support, Advocacy, Training, Education, Rehabilitation Seminars and Social Integration programs. Conducts courses and arrange seminars, workshops and conferences. Encourages and carries out research work. Develops schemes and run projects to achieve the main objectives of the foundation in connection with education, training, employment, social integration and social economic status.

Medical and Research Division, Sports and Leisure Division, Rehabilitation and Human Services Division

The objectives and aims of our resource centre are to motivate and inculcate interest in the parents and teachers of special children; to introduce modern methods and technology in teaching and training the handicapped children; to provide special aids, equipment and devices to facilitate, in their learning, mobility and living independently.

STEP was established in 1997 by the alumni of special education centers of Islamabad in order to bring a change in the behavior of society toward PWDs. STEP is a network of the disabled for the assistance and leadership training of PWDs. Membership comprises over 200 PWDs.