Trainings and workshops are carried out at Satya Special School to build our staff’s strength, self-confidence, and awareness in the field. Staffs at Satya are dedicated, thoughtful and very competent professionals. Capacity building programs include various trainings, and awareness lectures that enhance their skills, and enable them to adopt new methodologies in their classrooms for children and their parents.

Overall, the main objective of the programme is to promote meaningful personal development of staff which will develop resilience and professional skills through their participation in various internal and external training programmes and workshops, and demonstrate a positive change with their day to day activities towards development of children with special needs. We are open to partnerships with like-minded individuals or organisation.

One of Satya’s main mottos is “mothers are co-therapists”. Towards this end, mothers of students at Satya Special School are encouraged to participate fully in their child’s therapy. Grandparents and siblings are also involved in the intervention.

Apart from training on managing disability, mothers are also trained on financial planning, and vocational and other skills such as embroidery, quilling, and tailoring, to enable them to open their own businesses.

Along with Satya’s Assistance for PwDs, this leads to synergy between efforts, for a marked improvement in their life situation.

Our interactions with families of PwDs, especially children with special needs, brought to light the harsh realities that these families live in. Lack of financial resources in a rising economy like India means lesser resources for the family to spend on the care of CWSNs, or abandonment.

Satya Special School in collaboration with many organisations like CIAI, Italy and Les Enfants des Rues de Pondicherry along with the support of State Bank of India have provided financial assistance to the families of PWDs.

The support has been through soft-interest free loans and microcredit programmes. The families, with the support of these loans have earned additional income through various livelihood projects such as paper cup manufacturing, cool drink bar, laminating products, saree sales, sale of fish and fish products, stitching units, energy foods, cleaning products, and mushroom cultivation.