Today,Ma'am Tove Virtanen and Sir krister Nilsson introduced to us the Law on special support and service which states that
(1) people with intellectual disabilities,autism or autistic spectrum disorders
(2)people with brain damage(acquired as an adult)
(3)people with permanent physcial or intellectual disabilities that are not caused by ageing are provided with special support and services.
This law provides
(a)specially adapted accommodation
(b)day centre
(c)an attendant who is employed to accompany them.
We were divided into four groups of three each and our group comprised of Kaushik ,Urvi and Anjali guided by Ma'am Uma Masur and our Swedish friend Sana Alia Rehman.We got an opportunity to visit THE HALLUNDA DAY CARE CENTRE .This is an activity centre for those with a medium and small need of care.The type of work here includes Chocolate making,painting and working with ceramic,music,theatre,working with recycled paper,making bags,accessories,stitching and gardening.There are 18 employes and 30 clients here.There are professional dramatists who come here once in month to work with the clients there and the drama is telecasted on the television.Recently they went to Finland for their latest drama based on Faries.The paintings are put up for an exhibition and are sold for a good price.The special artists were interviewed by national level journalists.Annually they have their concert. The most amazing part of this day care centre is that the special people do not need an attendant.They move out of the centre and come back on their own.There are some other small jobs that the people do here like ironing, collecting the mails for the centre and sometimes washing their own dishes.We've seen special people between the age group of 22-65.And we've got to know that these people can go back to their home after the age of 65 but oy wish only if they to.The main objective of this day care centre is to make the people here independent and live a normal life.The goodies that are made here are sold at the store which is a part of the centre.the centre gives care taking training as well.This centre has a cafeteria.The employes here prepare pastries to be sold at the cafeteria.As a token of love,the care centre gave us some chocolates.
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