Hope Disability Centre, an undertaking of She Hope Society for Women Entrepreneurs, is an NGO in Jammu and Kashmir since 2001 working for rehabilitation of physically challenged people and women empowerment. In the last 16 years, Hope, when started from one-room unit at Wayil in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district providing physical rehabilitation and special education to mere 5 children with physical disabilities, has now expanded across Jammu and Kashmir for carrying out social work. Today, Hope is a fully grown rehabilitation centre, providing prosthesis and orthosis support to persons whose limbs have got amputated because of accidents, armed conflict or congenial diseases. Hope also provides physiotherapy, occupational, hearing and speech therapy, mobility aids, corrective surgeries, equipment and aids to persons with hearing impairment and activities in daily life (ADL). Hope conducts Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) in its outreach programmes. Through rehabilitation and facilitating livelihood and awareness about welfare schemes to them, these physically challenged persons now live an independent and dignified life. Livelihood programmes, especially for women and their empowerment, are conducted through awareness, education, counseling, skill training for employment, creation of self-help groups, and micro-loan scheme facilitation. Besides, Hope carries out programmes and workshops on health awareness, advocacy, access to human rights, child development and disaster risk and reduction management. Since the journey of social work began in 2001, Hope has provided physical rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities across the state, with its trained and capable staff. It has given assistive devices such as wheelchair, tricycle, crutches, toilet chair, hearing aids etc., to differently-abled persons increase their mobility and community participation. Prosthesis and Orthosis, surgical care have been provided on basic home based rehabilitation care, proper use and maintenance of aids and appliance. With the help of our esteemed donors and philanthropic organizations, HDC not only extended its services to people with disabilities but also created its own infrastructure. Today, HDC has its own two-storied building at Wayil, Ganderbal in Jammu and Kashmir, which serves as our head office. Besides, we also constructed our own centre in Kupwara. Hope has regional centres in the Anantnag, Baramulla, Bandipora, Kupwara, Pulwama district where our staff provides all kind of physical rehabilitation to the patients.
