By C V Joseph
Bengaluru, March 10, 2020: A Catholic parish in Bengaluru has organized a program for the disabled persons the southern Indian city, capital of Karnataka state.
Don Bosco Church at Lingarajapuram named the program ‘Differently Abled Day” and chose ‘We care so we share’ as the theme.
The program focused on the empowerment of persons with disabilities for inclusive, equitable and sustainable development. They also made a pledge to ‘leave no one behind.’
The aim of the program was to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and areas of development. The planners of the project had done it with a view to increase awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities in every aspect of spiritual, political, social, economic and cultural life.
One of the organizers said they want to tell the differently abled society cares for them. “We want to share the little we have with them in the form of education, growth and employment,” he explained.
Their agenda included supplying wheel chairs, artificial limbs, providing them with pension available with the government, job placement for the blind, providing hearing aid to the deaf and telling them that they are part of their family.
Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore delivered the concluding message.