Saritsa Foundation prepares visually impaired girls, women, School children/children and youth for disasters on eve of International Disaster Reduction day 2013. Saritsa Foundation conducts 4 workshops on Life Saving Education from 12th October to 30th November. This workshop for visually impaired women and youth of industrial workshop of National Association for Blinds, Worli, Mumbai was conducted on 28th November 2013. Saritsa Foundation has recognized that the People with disabilities are disproportionately vulnerable in emergencies and face high loss of lives and it aggravates their poverty since most of vulnerable people live in poverty in urban slums and rural areas. To mark the importance of International Day for Disaster Reduction 2013, Saritsa Foundation conduct 4 workshop for visually impaired women, girls and school children. Saritsa Foundation has recognized that when we do not include about 70 million women, girls, children and men with disability in the process of Disaster Risk Reduction in INDIA, we are denying opportunities to them to build their capacity to protect lives in emergencies, which increases their vulnerability.

1. SARITSA FOUNDATION (SARITSA CHARITY TRUST)
A Mobile University For Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change – Mission
National Security.
"Reach to People, Talk to People and Prepare People“
Builds capacity to reduce risks from disasters and climate change by
advocating and practicing. People Centered, People Led, and People Owned
Resilience – Investing in Life Saving Education.

2. Saritsa Foundation prepares visually impaired
girls, women, School children/children and
youth for disasters on eve of International
Disaster Reduction day 2013.
Saritsa Foundation conducts 4 workshops on
Life Saving Education from 12th October to 30th
November.
This workshop for visually impaired women
and youth of industrial workshop of National
Association for Blinds, Worli, Mumbai was
conducted on 28th November 2013.

3. Saritsa Foundation has recognized that the People
with disabilities are disproportionately vulnerable in
emergencies and face high loss of lives and it
aggravates their poverty since most of vulnerable
people live in poverty in urban slums and rural
areas. To mark the importance of International Day
for Disaster Reduction 2013, Saritsa Foundation
conduct 4 workshop for visually impaired
women, girls and school children. Saritsa
Foundation has recognized that when we do not
include about 70 million women, girls, children and
men with disability in the process of Disaster Risk
Reduction in INDIA, we are denying opportunities
to them to build their capacity to protect lives in
emergencies, which increases their vulnerability.

4. Saritsa Foundation analyzes that reasons for their
vulnerability are that they have no opportunity to build
their knowledge to respond, or learn to adhere to early
warning. It is a reality that they have never thought of
immediate plans, they have not thought of a process for
moving out of their houses, offices , institutions and
schools. They have not discussed and planned with
their families to cope with such
emergencies, friends, community members including
people in local governance. They are never a part of
plans or decisions for DRR. The parents and families of
persons with disability themselves are very little aware
to plan for them They are not aware about their
evacuation plans, their transportation, protection of
women and girls from sexual
violence, food, water, shelter, latrines and medicine
provisions as well as their buddies or care takers.

5. How Saritsa Foundation has been building capacity
of persons with disability since June 2000?
Saritsa Foundation is the most vibrant and
committed contributor amongst national and
international NGOs in the field of building capacity
of the most vulnerable in India. With its minimal
resources it has imparted life saving education to
9800 physically challenged, visually impaired, slow
learners, mentally retarded, suffering with
autism, deafness and dumbness. Saritsa Foundation
knows that disasters do not discriminate, human
beings do.
To take care of this concern Saritsa Foundation
endeavoring to unite people in
Governance, Administrators of
Institutions, international NGOs, and corporate

6. and individual and communities to mainstream
people with disability in capacity building, decision
making, policy formulation and implementation to
provide Right to life safety and security to the
persons with disabilities in disasters, with especial
priority to women, girls and children.
Objectives
1. To develop rapport with disabled to change their
mindset of helplessness and powerlessness by
reaching to them at their “Door Steps”.
2. To build capacity by imparting life saving
education.

7. 3. Make practical training and mock drills as an
important part of training.
4. Provide Braille books, Audio books, Sign language
handouts and Pictorial books to strengthen the
process.
5. Develop individual willingness to prepare and
make them believe that “I can prepare, I will
prepare and I will protect myself”.
6. Sensitize parents, families, institute
administrations and people in local governance.
7. Promote public/private partnership for financial
support for sustainability of the campaign.

8. Methodology
1. Explaining to the participants, how prone are
their areas to manmade and natural disasters.
How they can prepare to minimize losses?
2. Raising awareness for Early warning for disasters
in their regions and their response in way of
moving out from scene of disasters, access to
evacuation and transportation. It is to be
sensitized that all communication channels be
used by persons with disability for timely
response. Their networking on mobiles with
family members, relatives and control rooms will
be very useful to receive and adhere to early
warning to act.

9. 3. Family and community preparedness to make
provision for their needs in an emergency and
making plans for protecting them as well as
moving out of premises, evacuation and
transportation.
4. Making plans for support of care takers and
evolving Buddy System.
5. Defining routes, transportation and access to
shelters. Guiding them to identified areas for
food, water, medical help, and, use of latrines.
6. Provisioning for protecting women and girls from
sexual violence.

10. 7. Encourage disabled people to use local resources
to protect and organize periodic mock drills with
practical training for sustainability.
8. Preparation of guide lines to be made use in
emergencies by local administration as well as
making family and community plans is
important.
9. Persons with disabilities be included, in a
meaningful way, in each and every meeting, plan
and decisions.

11. Chief Guest Suresh
Kabra, Former Senior
Executive of Century
Mill, Mumbai, inaugurated
the workshop.

13. The
Participants

16. Practical
Training and
Mock Drills for
Earthquake

22. Practical
Training and
Mock Drills for
Floods

27. Practical
Training and
Mock Drills for
Fire

30. Practical
Training and
Mock Drills for
Terrorism and
Bomb Blast

33. First Aid

36. A participant thanks the team of Saritsa Foundation
and shared her experience.

37. The group of participants with the team of Saritsa
Foundation.

38. The group of participants with the team of Saritsa
Foundation.

39. Appreciation
from UNISDR
and other
eminent
persons

44. Please Contact/Donate
saritsa@vsnl.net OR saritsafoundationindia.in@gmail.com,
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Tel- 91 22 24366370
Fax - 022- 24370138
Website- saritsafoundation.org (Mozilla Firefox)
Donation/Support by donors/supporters be sent on name of Saritsa
Foundation(Saritsa Charity Trust) by Cheque/Draft to Corporation
Bank, Mumbai Worli Branch India. SB Account No. 017400101011299.
IFSC : CORP0000174. OR

45. Transfer of the Donation/Support on name of Prof. Smita
Kadam, Executive Director through Western Union Money
Transfer,
Mumbai India.
Address for Western Union Money Transfer –Prof. Smita Kadam
National HQ –
Flat No.-3, Pankaj CHS, S R Keer Marg, Bhandar Lane, Mahim
West, Mumbai – 400016.
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