Don Bosco Church Holds ‘Differently-abled Day’
Bengaluru: Don Bosco Church has organized a programme for the disabled persons in and around the city which was named ‘Differently-abled Day’ at the parish located at Lingarajapuram, Bangalore, recently. ‘We care so we share’ was chosen as the theme of the day. The jointly-initiated mission had focused on the empowerment of persons with disabilities for inclusive, equitable and sustainable development. They also made a pledge to ‘leave no one behind.’
The entire scheme of Differently-abled Day.” was planned and executed in association with the Commission for Differently-abled Persons of the Archdiocese of Bangalore, Good Sam Foundation, Lions Club International Pyramid, Birds Paradise, Maruthi Sevanagar, Kumara Park, Bhartiya Seva Charitable Trust, LCB Phoenix and Godson Memorial. The aim and objective of the dynamism was to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and areas of development. The planners of the project had done it with a view to increase awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities in every aspect of spiritual, political, social, economic and cultural life.
One of the members of the organizing team of the programme said, “we would like to say to them that we are there to care for them, share the little we have with them related to education, growth and employment. Their agenda included supplying wheelchairs, artificial limbs, providing them with pension available with the government, job placement for the blind, providing hearing aid to the deaf and telling them that they are part of their family. The supporters of the scheme also leave an impression to the disabled that they love and care for them and through this creative move they would want to assure them that “we are for them in all circumstances.“
Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore graced the occasion and imparted a concluding Message…
This programme was also blessed with the presence of Lion Deepak Suman mjf, 1st VDG, Lion Raju Chandrasekhar, Member Secretary, DDRC Bangalore Urban, DC for Specially challenged People, LCI-District-317F, State Awardee. Nelly Prichard, Good Sam Foundation and Estelle D’Souza, Joint Secretary, Disabled Commission, Archdiocese of Bangalore. Fr Aloysius Santiago, the Parish Priest, other Parish Clergy (of Don Bosco Church) and lay leaders of the parish also volunteered to support the cause of the disabled.
