Sonalee Shyamsunder

Urmi Foundation

Urmi Foundation supports children with disabilities in Mumbai's low-income communities, where its door-to-door surveys found most mothers unaware of their child's disability and a majority of intellectually disabled children shut out of education and therapy. The foundation responds with cost-effective, socially oriented models for disability awareness, identification, intervention and mainstreaming, working through the city's anganwadis.

Urmi Foundation reports the following, on its own site:

• 6900+ disabled children detected through community outreach.
• 2000+ special children receives Urmi's educational and therapeutic support each year.
• 1000+ Anganwadis trained to detect disabilities at an early stage and prevent them.