NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, OCT 28
During the tough times of the ongoing corona pandemic, many people have come together to help the needy in one or the other way, frontline medical workers have sacrificed their lives for the same.
Dr. Nitin Sumant Shah, Chairman of Heart Foundation and Research Institute & Nitin Charitable Trust, has begun a unique initiative to provide financial help to the visually impaired people by giving employment and make them self-reliant amidst this pandemic. With this initiative, they can do business, get employed, stand on their own feet, and inspire others to do so. At the same time, such type of self-employment makes them self-reliant, preserve their self-respect, and even inspire other disabled people.
This scheme was started at Sadvichar Parivar, a Gujarat-based NGO, on October 5.
Elaborating further about this programme, Dr. Nitin Sumant Shah said, “Heart Foundation and Research Institute has been doing community service for the last 40 years and helping it, by joining and supporting various programmes and schemes.”
He further said that this time, amidst corona pandemic, they have organized this programme to aid the visually impaired (disabled) people. Under this scheme, an innovative attempt has been made to empower the women at Bareja town in Ahmedabad where women from 15 villages will be trained to make sewing machines and sanitary pads, this will help them get employment and become self-reliant.
Mayor of Ahmedabad Bijalben Patel, Y.M. Shukla (Charity Commissioner, Gujarat) and other special guests were present during this programme.
