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Chairman's Message

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    If a child cannot learn in the way we teach,

          we must teach in a way the child can learn

                                                                                       

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V.K Mohammed Ashraf
Our Journey Thus Far

VKM Special School tries to pass along a tiny spark of love and humanity, to kindle the hopes and dreams of children with Cerebral palsy, Intellectual disability and related neuro developmental disabilities. What began as a small humanitarian intervention, way back in the year 2002, has now grown into a full fledged development and rehabilitation facility benefiting hundreds of children with neuro developmental challenges and their families. I felt the need for this spark very strongly when I painfully witnessed the cold and insensitive ways in which a child with intellectual disability was treated at a function. When I realized that I was also part of the indifferent lot, I didn't want to remain that way even for a day. I quickly organised a survey in my neighbourhood, only to find out that the number of children with intellectual disability was far more than what I expected. There was neither governmental nor family support for them. I wanted to make these children needed and loved through VKM Special School. These children have a natural order of things in them. ‘When not interfered with outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection.' I want these children to take delight in their own special perfection, which makes them different and unique. They can realize their potential only through guidance and tender care. I believe that when a child with intellectual or neuro developmental disability comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child. Let us support these children and their families through the guidance, training, rehabilitation, organizations and financial aid or even with small prayers. Only then do we become truly human.

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