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Commitments is a Public Trust is working for the development of Persons with disabilities in fie most backward mandals of Mahabubnagar district that is196 Grama panchayaths of 8 project Mandals i.e. Kosgi, Doulthabad, Bomraspet, Balanagar, Maddur, Ghattu, Dharoor and Maldhakal mandals with 5821 persons with disabilities. The Commitments Trust formed self-help groups with 3452 members of persons with disabilities in these eight mandals.

The Commitments is concentrating mainly on the over all development of persons with disabilities and most vulnerable groups through Community Based Rehabilitation process. In this area disability population is more and more than other districts of Andhra Pradesh. Before the Commitments project intervention the persons with disabilities are depending on their guardians, parents and members of the family. Some of them are begging in the villages and nearby towns. Few members have been doing the free services to the landlords and village heads. Now the project organized them into self-help groups, providing regular capacity building and providing technical support to them most of the trainings organized for them with the help of line departments and women self help groups that are headed by Mandal Mahila Samakyas in these mandals. Regular follow up is doing by the social workers of commitments. After providing the capacity building they themselves trust of their following activities. Then, the members slowly started the savings in the self-help groups, after they got the financial support from commercial banks and other sources of funds to do the income generations activities for sustainability of their life. For this Mandal Mahila Samkyas have given the support to theses groups to getting the loans from above sad sources. With this amount they started the income generation activities like petty businesses, vegetable gardens, vegetable vending, laundry shops, tea stalls, barber shops, electrical& electronic shops, flour mills, livestock and agricultural allied activities.

These self-help groups formed as a federation in mandal level that is called as mandal vikalangual sangham. In the same way these mandal level sangams formed as a federation that is called as Zilla Vikalangula Sangham , it is registered under societies registration Act (Mahabubnagar Zilla Velugu Vikalangula Sangham), usually the members is calling BISA Committee. These federations are lobbying the government and Non-government organizations for the medical, social, educational and economic development of the persons with disabilities. Till now they got the tricycles, crutches, hearing aids, calipers, IAY houses, Barrier free toilets etc. And also these federations identified the needy persons for the surgical corrections, Eye operations etc. through the Kamaineni Hospitals, L.V.Prasad Eye Institute, NIHH, NIMH, SWEEKAR-UPKAR etc. And the Mandal Vikalangula Sanghams started the neighborhood centers for the children with disabilities and non-disabled children. The commitments is building strong alliances with the established Community Based Organizations and line departments for creating disabled friendly environment in everywhere.

The Commitments organizations is creating awareness on rights among the PWDs, and also sensitizing the Panchayatraj institutions and line departments for the implementation of PWD Act 1995 successfully. The Commitments is developing the activists and para professionals to provide services and educate the parents and guardians of Persons with disabilities in CBR process.
The Commitments is identifying the persons with severe disabilities, destitute and among the members of the SHGs with PWDs. While conducting assessment with communities and federations, with that report or suggestions became base for the commitments to built the linkages. Commitments has been educating the rights of persons with disabilities and sensitizing them to get their right in positive way for the overall development of persons with disabilities. Now the Commitments are net working with other Community Based Organizations to disseminate the 'Commitments Concept'. Continuously organizing the training programmes to the resource persons, Social workers of NGOs and CBOs, it developed as a resource centre for the 'overall development of persons with disabilities'.

This project has the following specific objectives:
· To initiate social mobilization process and facilitate the formation of sangams (SHGs)/Federations of the Persons with disabilities in the five mandals of Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh.
· To mobilize the sanghams (SHGs) to take up community awareness and initiate community activities for inclusion of persons with disabilities into the mainstream and to set up community resource centers for assessment, treatment and rehabilitation.
· To provide rehabilitation services for about 3655 persons with disabilities (covering various types of disabilities) in the five mandals of Mahbubnagar district.
· To initiate Community Based Rehabilitation approaches with Community Based Organizations