Have you ever been asking yourself, as you ride to work through crowded streets, pollution, noise, whenever you feel useless and powerless in a highly competitive and dehumanized professional environment: “Can I change this?” Yes - we have such an opportunity,...
The age of COVID-19 has got us locked in our homes not just as a nation but as a global community. We are all experiencing the threat of the pandemic, but at different levels and varying degrees. For some, it’s a feeling of constant anxiety, for others,...
People with disabilities often experience higher rates of unemployment when compared to people without disabilities. Some disabled people struggle with the set hours of office life, while others find their workplace lacks tools and equipment to make their...
Dear reader, dear friend, Don't think that because we are not publishing any new post nothing is happening at the Handimachal Kullu Therapy Unit - in fact, a lot is going on every day and I will able to publish a short summary of the programme progress...
On 31 July, Save Manali NGO organised its annual function in Manali and introduced various initiatives and work from other local NGOs. The Handimachal team was of course present. The video of the Mannequin challenge was played for the public but above...
Today we said goodbye and good luck to Rekha Thakur and Shruti More, who had been working for 5 and 7 years respectively with Handimachal, and very lately expressed their wish to leave the programme. The page is being turned, but this incredible adventure...
These truly are uncertain times! The entire nation has been under government mandated lockdown for the past 30 days or so, and so have we at Handimachal! As Pediatric Therapists, our hearts go out to the children we treat and their families. Although...
Dear friends and supporters, The Handimachal Society, duly registered in Kullu on 14 February 2017, is happy to announce its registration under Section 51.2 of "The Rights of Persons With Disabilities" Act 2016, as from 6 December 2017 with registration...
We are happy to announce that, after 8 years of continuous operation in Kullu under various organisations, the Handimachal programme for special-need children is getting its own legal existence - the Handimachal Society received its registration number...
During the last week of June, the Handimachal team was extremely lucky to welcome Mrs. Kinnari Bhatt, an Indian OT specialised in ABA services to children facing autism disorders. Thanks to Kinnari and to the support from the Parents' association and...
Whatever work you do is supposed to make a difference, and it does. In our case, the difference lies in what Handimachal has been making in the lives of the many special need children of Kullu valley. Prakash Thaapa is one such special and ironically...
Back in the UK after my 3 months working with the Handimachal project, my head is still full of it! Apart from supporting the ongoing work of the local therapy team, my particular task agreed with Dominique Dufau had been to contribute to the development...
23 November: this morning Evert sent me very positive news regarding activities carried out in the Handimachal Kullu Therapy Unit last week. Our team attended the D istrict Sports Event for Differently-Abled Children organized by the local welfare office...
On 9 September 2009, after six months of operation, the Handimachal Kullu Thearpy Unit for differently-abled children was inaugurated by Mr Nanta, DC Kullu (Himachal Pradesh, India). The presence of the new Deputy Commissioner of Kullu district, of the...
Thanks to a donation made by a small Dutch foundation, we have now engaged in a programme of home-based treatment in order to reach the maximum disabled children, notably in remote villages of the district which may not be linked to the valley by any...
Since I came back to France one month ago, the daily routine of life and work in Paris has taken back its rights and leave less time for blog writing. Nevertheless, far away from us, in Kullu, our small Handimachal Kullu Therapy Unit is keeping up its...
On November 29th, the team of the Handimachal Kullu Therapy Unit spent the whole Sunday in Bagan, a remote village high above Kullu (in Shilana penchayat), in order to hold a new meeting with the local population. Thanks to the active involvement of the...
Dear friends of the Handimachal project! Field work in India and “blogging” are not always compatible – I really experienced this reality this summer, when, further to my delayed return from Zanskar and Ladakh, I spent the three remaining weeks sharing...
Article written by Evert, posted on his blog It’s Lori, a festival originated from Punjab , where everywhere fires are lit, peanuts are eaten and children come past the doors singing and asking for sweets and rupees. All these festivals. Yesterday we...
There are numerous ways of expressing happiness wishes at the beginning of a new year. People have so many different expectations in their life, how to address them on a blog? Finally, Evert, our occupational therapist from the Netherlands, gave me a...
On 17 February, the Handimachal team in Kullu organised a farewell party for Evert at the end of his six month mission. His mother and his girlfriend Daniela (a speech therapist) were there, as well as some local volunteers such as our friend Hem Raj...
This Sunday 11 April was probably one of the most memorable days of my short stay in the valley as the Handimachal team held its monthly awareness camp in Manali, in the main playing ground of the Government Senior Secondary School. Our friend Raju monitored...
This is the title of a poem written by Arjita Singh, a journalist who came to give some of her time during her recent holiday in the Kullu valley. Arjita notably translated in hindi and designed some leaflets which are meant to give simple but efficient...
Last year I could not honor Yuv Raj’s invitation to visit his village and family house in Lahashni village: this time, in spite of my very tight schedule, no way to refuse! So here we are, after work, in local buses up to a village at the entrance of...
This is already my second week of work in the Handimachal Unit, and already these few days have been rich in discoveries and prospectives... I began my volunteer mission by working with a young man called Ramneek (20) who is disabled with hemiplegia caused...
