28 April 2007
Sale Of Products By Disabled Persons
Ms. A. Meenakshi Sundari, a visually impaired lady and post graduate, lives in economically difficult conditions.
Ms. A. Meenakshi Sundari is running a PCO in Venkatanarayana Road, T’Nagar (opp. TT. Devasthanam) for the last few years with meager income.
In spite of her difficult conditions, Ms. Meenakshi Sundari has now taken up the task of marketing the products made by fellow disabled persons from all over Tamil Nadu.
There are reported to be 17 lakh disabled persons in Tamil Nadu alone (orthopaedically disabled, visually impaired, hearing/speech impaired and mentally ill persons) and 95% of these disabled persons belong to the lower income group and are living in extremely stressful and difficult conditions.
With physical mobility, poverty and lack of job opportunities confronting them, the only way out for disabled persons is to self-employ themselves. Some of the disabled persons have acquired skill and make products such as batik paintings, wooden show pieces, plastic articles etc. For them, marketing the products has become an extremely difficult exercise.
Ms. Meenakshi Sundari in her small PCO booth in T’ Nagar keeps the products of the disabled persons and sells them on no-profit basis. Nandini Voice for the Deprived, a Chennai-based NGO, is supporting her efforts.
Ms. Meenakshi Sundari deserves encouragement from the public by way of buying the products made by disabled persons.
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