For 19-year-old Shreya Jena, an autistic child whose childhood was not at all easy, things have changed completely. Sitting in a lavish white room, Jena is happily painting and pursuing her love for technology. She is altogether a different person now.
“I was not like this before. I was low on confidence, impatient and short-tempered. But now, I am moving towards learning new things,” said Jena. She is now undergoing sessions with a NGOin Vasant Kunj.
From teaching her to paint, to giving her therapy for her disability, Freesia Organisation has completely changed her world. “Jena came to us when she was only 15, her parents were not sure of what to do as she had great difficulty in communicating. But now after sustaining special education, speech therapy, physiotherapy, occupational and vision therapy she has become a lot more confident and she can answer and speak much clearer now,” said Roma Sahni, founder of Freesia.
The NGO provides a spectrum of services such as early intervention, education, therapy and counselling to children with multiple disabilities without medicines.
Over the past four years, Jena has been able to find out her interests in painting and computers.
“I came here when I was only 15, it’s been four years since I have been coming here. I love this place as this has given me a platform to learn. I could not even answer but now I am confident enough and I am able to do what I learn on daily basis. I learn all the subjects along with that singing and dance is what I love to do,” said Jena.
After learning, she now teaches Hindi and English to other children and has possessed a different interest for computer as Photoshop amazes her.
“I was taught how to make power-point presentation and word documents but now I want to learn photoshop as it is something very interesting and along with it photography is something I love as seeing people happy in one frame is something which is beautiful. I want to be an photo editor,” Jena added.
The organisation not only teaches the kids education but also how to be good human beings. They are taught about good and bad touches and how to say “No” to things. On top of that, sex education to these children is very important.
There are around 40 kids and 16 of them have this disorder and rest are below poverty line for whom the therapies are free who come to Freesia on regular basis and are taught in a special way of all age groups.
“The whole idea is to make them learn and teaching them is an art which everyone can’t do. They are special and we hold regular sessions with parents also as they are the once who need to be the once to provide special attention to their child. The aim is to create a new world of inclusion and community, where every single person is accepted and welcomed, regardless of their ability and lives a healthy and independent financially secured future,” added Sahni.
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