Special Educators Required

We require Teachers with Special Education Training -
# B.Ed or Diploma Holders in Special Education preferred
# Experienced or freshers are also welcome
# Categories - for Mental Retardation and Hearing Impaired
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2.Wardens -
# Female candidates with 10th class & above,
# Widows or Single Women .
3. Ayahs
# Female candidates with 10th class & above,
# Widows or Single Women .
Food & Accomodation will be provided to Wardens & Ayahs .
They will have to stay along with the students in the hostel looking after Childrens requirements.

Salary :- Attractive Salary offered based on merit & experience.

Donate

WOULD YOU LIKE TO DONATE??

Donations can be made by sending a crossed cheque/Demand Draft in favour of “Sunflower Special School” payable at Visakhapatnam.Please send by Post/Courier to below given address.

An ECS - Electronic transfer Service can also be done to our Bank - Andhra Bank

Andhra Bank,P.M.Palem,Madhurawada,Vizag-530040.

A/C No. for ECS - 123801100001404
If you are outside India, please email us and we will let you know how you can donate.

Tax Exemption

All donations made to “The Sun Flower Educational & Charitable Society” bearing Regd.No. 50/2005-06 u/s 12A (a) of I.T. Act will be exempted from Income Tax under Section 80 G (5) vi of the said Act.Vide proceedings of the Commissioner of Income Tax-1,Visakhapatnam- F.No.Tech/III/39/CIT-1/VSP/2005-06 dt.29-12-2005 valid till March 31st,2008.

Who we are

A legacy of ‘Voluntary Service’ is an adornment of Mrs. M. Nagaraja Kumari, Founder & Secretary. She hails from a family very well known for its social service with Philanthropic attitude.

With this inheritance she had chosen to serve the ‘Special Children’ . Enjoying the spirit of this kind of service in the school prompted her to serve the Poor and Disabled at slums and villages.
Realizing it as a Vocation, she was determined to devote the whole of her time on building a lasting relationship with the mentally & physically challenged poor & orphan children of all religions by giving birth to a ‘Mission’ to fulfill her ‘Vision’.

Community service is the Heritage of Mr. Ranjan, Founder President. His grand father and father used to provide the poor with Food, Medical Aid and Education. Mr.Ranjan, who served in a PSU as Class 1 Officer for 23 years, has a sense of Commitment, Dedication and Sacrifice to serve the under privileged communities and to ensure that people do not die on the streets.
Rising to the occasion, both have been work for about 12 to 14 hours a day in fulfillment of their aims and objectives.

Reality

Poverty is rampant in our backward villages in the District of Visakhapatnam. Disparity between the rich and the poor is enormous in these villages. Theses village have the largest number of bonded and child labourers. These poor people lead a hand- to- mouth life by earning low daily wages.

Health education is to be necessarily imparted . Most of the people suffer from congenital diseases even without knowing about them. So mortality rate in this project area and adjacent villages is far more than in advanced Cities. The nearest full pledged hospital is sometimes about 25 to 30 kms away and it may be physically impossible to gain entrance into a specialist hospital. Unhygienic conditions and illicit contacts spread communicable diseases like cholera, diarrhea, TB, Jaundice, HIV / Aids . Polio is still prevalent.

These villages have no facilities for poor, destitute and disabled children in the matter of education, health & protection. The women have no alternative other than going for work along with men-folk to augment the sources of income for their families. The lack of proper education added to it, their miserable living conditions and the strenuous labour make the disabled children unwanted in the society as they need more care and do not contribute to the family earnings.

Origin

With an objective to serve the society “The Sun Flower Educational & Charitable Society” was established in 1978 and it acquired its registration in 1982 (as per the Society Act XXI of 1860 of A.P.) . The preamble of our objectives are promoting educational institutions, vocational training centers and residential schools for the welfare of the mentally & physically challenged poor children as well as normal children including orphans, street children, child labourers and the children of economically weaker sections by way of providing the welfare amenities like rehabilitation, health and nutrition in a charitable way.

This Society is a non-profit voluntary organization aimed at serving the mentally & physically challenged poor children along with normal distressed children of this area. Many poor special children along with normal children have been educated by this Society through charity and many social programmes were administered to the under privileged people.

Sunflower Special School At Peda Waltair:-

The Sunflower Special School began its services to the physically & mentally challenged children with a commitment in 1986 at M.V.P. Colony, Visakhapatnam by giving them qualitative education by experienced & dedicated teachers. The present strength of our school is about 110 including 55 hostellers. Special Education is being imparted in various fields of disabilities - such as Cerebral Palsy , Autism, Metally Challenged, Slow learners, Hearing Impaired etc.,and specially trained staff have been employed for this purpose.Presently operating from Peda Waltair premises.

Sunflower Special School At Mithaliapuri VUDA Colony :-

Also the ‘The Sun Flower Silver Jubilee Convent School’ along with ‘The Sun Flower Special School (Residential) was set up by this Society at Mithaliapuri VUDA Colony, Madhurawada,Vizag in 1997. The society’s Special School lays emphasis mainly on literacy, vocational courses such as candle making,DTP&screen printing, tailoring & embroidery,fashion designing, file making and book binding. Besides, our Special School extends the facilities of speech, physio, music and dance therapies in addition to participation in sports, games and cultural activities.

Need your support

Please join your hands in the humanitarian task of raising funds in Aid of the disabled and needy children.

Your support empowers the Society with the resources to share the responsibility of conducting any one of the following activities of the Society successfully:

1. Sunflower Special School - A) Mentally&Physically Challenged B) Hearing Impaired
2. Sunflower Silver Jubilee Convent - A Normal School integrated to teach Border line cases of Special Children.
3. Residential Special Children Home - Caters to 100 Boys & Girls.
4. Vocational Training Centre - Empowering Special Children to earn their livelihood.
5. Old Age Home - 25 Beneficiaries
6. Mobile Medical Units - Rendering medical aid to remote rural villages in Vizag District
7. Computer Education center - For Special Children

Tax Exemption

All donations made to “The Sun Flower Educational & Charitable Society” bearing Regd.No. 50/2005-06 u/s 12A (a) of I.T. Act will be exempted from Income Tax under Section 80 G (5) vi of the said Act.Vide proceedings of the Commissioner of Income Tax-1,Visakhapatnam- F.No.Tech/III/39/CIT-1/VSP/2005-06 dt.29-12-2005 valid till March 31st,2008.

Get Involved

1) Volunteer service:- You can render service and participate in the school activities as a volunteer if you are in around Visakhapatnam .You can spend a few hours of your valuable time monitoring the hostel inmates and give them necessary guidance.

2) Sponsor a child:-You can also sponsor a child’s education,food,medical treatment and clothing by adopting a child.This sponsor is for the purpose of care-taking and for meeting the monetary expenses only.You can renew your commitment annually.

Sponsorship costs:-

a) Child’s education Rs. 6000/- annually per child

b) Child’s education and food Rs.12,000/-annually per child

c) Child’s medical needs inclusive of items a and b Rs.18,000/- annually per child

d) Child’s clothing Rs.3000/- annually per child

3) Provide Accommodation:-The school is in the process of acquiring land and permanent premises for sheltering the underprivileged children and the old. You can contribute by sponsoring for land & construction costs.

Sponsorship costs:-

a) Contribution for Land:- Rs.25,000/- onwards

b) Contribution for Construction material-Steel,Cement etc. :- Rs.25,000/- onwards

c) Contribution of Construction material of substantial Quantity is also appreciated.

4) Transport :- The School requires Bus /Mini Van with a 30 to 4o seat capacity. Donors are welcome to sponsor.

5) Medical camps:- The school regularly conducts medical camps in remote areas of Visakhapatnam District under the supervision of eminent doctors and medicines are distributed free of cost.

Cost of each medical camp Rs.5000/-

6) Awareness Camps:-The school also organizes Awareness camps for the development of women and children in the areas of health, hygiene, adult education and AIDS awareness.

Cost of each Awareness camp :- Rs.5,000/-

Tax Exemption

All donations made to “The Sun Flower Educational & Charitable Society” bearing Regd.No. 50/2005-06 u/s 12A (a) of I.T. Act will be exempted from Income Tax under Section 80 G (5) vi of the said Act.Vide proceedings of the Commissioner of Income Tax-1,Visakhapatnam- F.No.Tech/III/39/CIT-1/VSP/2005-06 dt.29-12-2005 valid till March 31st,2008.

Contact Us

Sunflower Special School

The Sunflower Educational & Charitable Society

Address M. Nagaraja Kumari, Secretary-Cum- Correspondent D.No. 1-1-116, Besides Rama Lakshmi Apartments, Peda Waltair. Visakhapatnam - 530 017 Andhra Pradesh, India. Telephone +91-9849912049 +91- 9246622237 +91-9849912048 Email kumarisunflowerspl@yahoo.com jcsp@rediffmail.com

Our Focus

We share the love of God among the poor needy & disabled children and alleviate their problems.

We integrate special children (disabled) with normal students. We follow Lip movement system instead of the ‘Sign Language’ system for the ‘Hearing Impaired’ (Deaf) students to enable their integration with the normal students in the main stream. We are happy to say that our Hearing Impaired children are able to converse with normal children freely. Also we ensure that the mentally retarded and slow learners are also assimilated with the normal students. Thus the ‘Integrated System’ enables the disabled to forget their disabilities and develop self confidence.

On 3rd December every year our children observe ‘World Disabled Day’ by installing exhibition stalls and participating in cultural activities. They participated in the ‘Special Olympic Games 2005’ and bagged a good number of prizes. Some of our moderately retarded children have passed the public examinations.

Our charitable society also undertakes various social activities such as free medical camps, health awareness camps, services to people affected by natural calamities, distribution of food items, clothes etc. to poor children in slum areas and de-addiction awareness programs for the benefit and welfare of the community.

When, at the dawn of 26th December 2004, Tsunami played a havoc in the coastal villages of Bay of Bengal in Indian Ocean, our Society formed a relief team. Not only many lives were lost but many people also lost their boats, nets and house hold materials. Further several houses were damaged. In this agonic situation, our relief team visited the affected areas in Krishna District namely Manginaapudi & Tallapalem to share the mournful feelings of the victims and to offer our solace to them with a deep sense of sorrow .We offered rice, clothes and steel vessels directly to the people affected by Tsunami.

We have also conducted AIDS awareness camps, and rallies on several occasions which attracted the attention of our state Hon’ble Chief Minister Dr. Y.S. Rajesekhara Reddy.

About Us

All Children are special, but some are more special

“The Sunflower Special School” is a home for the often ill-treated poor & orphan Challenged Children, where these children’s innocent lives have been provided with a new meaning for their existence. Here they live like the more privileged children without the fear of discrimination and ridicule. Our specially trained staff treats them with utmost care and patience.

Growth &Training: The Special School started with just two children, but has grown in strength gradually with the goodwill & the admiration of parents & public through the years.

At present, the school has strength of 110 students (day &residential). We train about 110 special children, which includes 51 hostel inmates.

Specially Trained Educators from various fields of Disabilities like Mentally Retarded, Blind, Dumb &deaf provide professional training for the development of the young minds with dedication.

Apart from Academic Education we also impart Vocational training to the inmates in various Vocational Courses such as Screen Printing, Book Binding, and Fashion Designing and in making Files, Phenyl, Candles etc.

The specially made Painted Jyoti’s or Pramida’s designed by our students are loved by one and all.

We also provide the facilities of Speech, Physiotherapy, Psyche, Music and Dance Therapies. We encourage students to participate in Sports, Games and Cultural activities to develop their latent talent.

The teachers and other staff members stay together with the students. One Warden and five attendants to look after the basic needs of the children.

Food: - A balanced diet is given to the students as per the suggestions of a dietician.

For effective monitoring, the students with different Disabilities are divided into different categories depending on the degree to which they are affected.

The process of enrolling a child involves an I.Q. Test, the results of which are analyzed by a Special Educator. Also an assessment by a professional Psychologist is done. The Child is kept under observation for two months after which the learning level of the child is decided. Then a Curriculum based on the Child’s intelligence level and the degree of Disability is set as a primary goal. After every 3 months, an assessment is made as per a Check list and the course is reviewed according to the students’ progress.

Behavioural Modification:

The Special children need to be trained in basic needs & habits. Normal habits like going for toilet, bathing, dressing, eating is also very difficult for them.

Our Special Educators train corrective measures to enable them to understand basic needs once they step into our school, over a period of time, depending upon the child’s reciprocation. To train them in basic skills like eating, recognizing a person, which is a continuous process, in order to mix them with main stream children. These Children need to be taught with extreme patience.

Slow learner:

After conducting a GLAD test, a course curriculum is set, based on the syllabus of National Open School (NIOS), Delhi . Our Special educators use specially designed Visual Aids to enhance the students learning abilities. After completion of the academic course the Special Children will appear for an NIOS-annual exam at NIMH centre,Secunderabad.

Integration & Innovation: We integrate these ‘Special Children’ with the Normal students.

Lip Movement: As far as Speech is concerned in the case of Hearing Impaired (Deaf) Children, we follow “Lip Movement” system instead of the ‘Sign Language’ so as to enable them to get mixed up with the Normal in the Main Stream and converse with them freely without any hesitation.

The “Integrated System” enables the Disabled forget their Disabilities and develop Self-Confidence.

‘SPECIAL SCHOOL’ Exclusive Features:

1) The School adopts Montesori method for Preschool Mentally & Physically Challenged Children.

2) The School uses behavior modification techniques to train Mentally & Physically Challenged Poor Children.

3) The School develops new communication skills and play activities for the
Mentally & Physically Challenged Children.

OTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Our Charitable Society undertakes various Social Activities for the Welfare of the Community. We conduct the following service activities:-

1. Free Medical Camps,

2. Health Awareness Camps,

3. Service to people affected by Natural Calamities,

4. Distribution of food,kitchen items, clothes etc., to poor children in slum areas,

5. Deaddiction of Liquor & drugs Programmes

And so on.

Our Society directly distributed rice, clothes and steel vessels to the people affected by “Tsunami’ at Mangina Pudi & Tallapalem areas in Krishna District.

In addition, we have turned the spot light on AIDs,highlighting the need to protect against the disease. We conducted AIDS Awareness Camps and Rallies, on several occasions, which attracted the attention of our honourable Chief Minister, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhar Reddy.

Recognition:

Our services over the past 20 years have been observed by the National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (N.I.M.H) Secunderabad and the Special Education Department, Andhra University, Waltair which provide us with expert guidance. Our faculty regularly attends work shops conducted by NIMH , Secunderabad.

OUR INVITATION:

We invite you heartily to visit to our premises for personal assessment and interaction as also for showering your blessings on the Special Children for their better future.

Our glorious “Tradition” inspires us to live for the “Needy” and your valuable financial & moral support rejuvenates us to surge ahead.

Our Vision

A close look at the faces of these children is enough to fathom the hurt and helplessness in their eyes and the fact that they had undergone a troubled childhood due to lack of nutritional needs.

They come from different villages and slums and with diverse backgrounds, but most of them seem to have one thing in common i.e., Poverty. Also coupled with negligence and ill-treatment by parents or our Society. What they all need is ‘Love’. Therefore, apart from the family members, the onus now rests on the Community to transform these Special Children who had a troubled childhood into productive citizens with an everlasting smile on their faces

We share a vision of creating a better environment for these children. We are with a strong conviction and unrelenting endeavour to move towards a common Dream of filling love and affection into the lives of the Mentally and Physically Challenged.

Keeping this vision in the action plan, we have been campaigning continuously in the surrounding urban slum and rural areas in order to identify the neglected and uncared for Disabled children, who make Railway stations, Bus stands and Market places as their homes. We invite them into the lap of the Sunflower Special School and make our best efforts to bring them into mainstream of Life. Special training programs have been designed & planned suitably to mould them their individual skills and capabilities.

In the Hindu paper

We had organised some camps which was published in the paper

Event for the disabled

Please participate and contribute to this event