Matrusangharsh is a unregistered body of mothers of our mentally challenged students. This is working since last 3 years and they celebrate their annual function on 26 th Jan every year in our Sandnya Srushti campus. Through the year they have monthly meetings in our Nagpur office. The objective of this forum is to give mothers a platform where they can discuss not only their mentally challenged wards problem can freely discuss their own and personal problems as well. Apart from this other objective of this forum is to see that these special mothers get opportunity to relax also. Many of them have different skills and talents, but due to this unending problem of mental disability of their ward, these talents are suppressed. 2-3 trustee members of SSS guide them and encourage them to take additional responsibilities and motivate them to pursue their dormant talents. We have been observing, that, since we started this forum, mothers of our students have become quite active and they take lot of more interest in the progress and development of their mentally disabled son/daughter.
During these annual programme also, there are few technical topics e.g. diet, legal advice, hormonal changes, puberty, menopausal syndrome etc. This time the out side faculty was Adv.Shrikant Shirpurkar a senior advocate practicing in High Court, Nagpur. He answered many queries of Matrusangharsh members regarding legal implications in family matters and more specifically in relation to their mentally challenged ward and position in law.
We fully realize that mental disability is a multi dimensional problem and is very complex as well. We can not simply ignore any of its dimensions otherwise the logical objective of true rehabilitation of mentally challenged can not be sought or achieved. One must understand that mothers health is equally important, siblings behavior and attitude should be observed, father's acceptance can not be over looked and obviously family's financial condition is also to be considered.
By: Navin Deshpande, Secretary, SSS
website: www.sandnya.org
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