Saritsa Prepares Visually Impaired Men & Women at NAB on 20 & 21st June

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 Men and
Women at National Association
for Blinds, Worli Mumbai on 20
& 21st June 2014.

3. This workshop is announced as a
training event on website of
UNISDR – www.preventionweb.net.
Visit the link -
http://www.preventionweb.net/e
nglish/professional/trainings-
events/events/v.php?id=37863

4. Lack of societal recognitions and discrimination of
the necessity to mainstream 70 Million persons
who are differently abled in India, especially
visually impaired are highly vulnerable to disasters
in Urban and Rural India. There is a need to have a
positive change to make visually impaired men,
women and children an inclusive part of plans and
policies for empowering them to cope with
disasters. Saritsa Foundation has been pioneering
the mission to provide equal opportunities to
disabled people including visually impaired to
build their capacity with needed sensitivity for
past 14 years to develop their skills for prevention,
mitigation and preparedness for many kinds of
disasters.

5. Disasters do not discriminate, human beings do. To
make a small beginning to take care of above
mentioned concerns, Saritsa Foundation has
chartered an innovative practice to provide an
opportunity to the persons with disabilities
especially women since its birth on 05 June 2000.
Saritsa Foundation has a distinction to put the
Disaster Risks Reduction practice and
preparedness on the map of India for the disabled.
Saritsa Foundation has prepared and built capacity
amongst 9700 disabled by organizing workshops
and preparedness modules in disaster prone states
of India.

6. The visually impaired participants are provided
opportunity to learn to protect them and be self
reliant to cope with disasters.
 The Awareness, Education and Training are
conducted with interactive participatory
methodology.
 The participants are encouraged to analyze risk
and vulnerability to them under various scenarios
of their houses, their working places and their
movement and their areas.
 They are encourage to raise awareness among
themselves and their families and prepared to
respond accordingly.

7.  Make use of local resources and local experience
and expertise.
 Participants are provided practical training with
mock drills with live scenarios of disasters.
 Develop buddy system (Jodi system) to respond
to disasters.
 Practice to cope with different emergencies as
trained by practical training and mock drills.

8. Please Contact/Donate
saritsa@vsnl.net OR saritsafoundationindia.in@gmail.com,
http://www.youtube.com/user/saritsafoundation
Mob- 09323157377,
Tel- 91 22 24366370
Fax - 022- 24370138
Website- www.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

9. Foreign Donors may donate to the following account:
Account Holder Name - Saritsa Charity Trust (Saritsa
Foundation)
Bank Name- Corporation Bank, Worli Branch, Mumbai.
SB Account number – 017400101020490
IFSC Code - CORP0000174
National HQ –
Flat No.-3, Pankaj CHS, S R Keer Marg, Bhandar Lane,
Mahim West, Mumbai – 400016.
Email for information - saritsa@vsnl.net
Tel. – 91 22 2436 6370
Mob - 91 9870008717

10. Please Visit following links:
YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/user/saritsafoundation
Goodness TV link for Saritsa Foundations video
http://www.goodnesstv.org/en/videos/recherche/saritsa/
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Word press:
http://saritsa.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/senior-exectives-
reliance-prepare-for-disasters-24-05-2013/