Special Needs

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching
Mahatma Gandhi

The objective of Special Needs program is to provide support to schools catering the education to children with special needs (physically of mentally challenged). These schools provide full time schooling for children with special needs and some of these schools provide free boarding and lodging to these children. The children attending these schools pay no fees and come from low socio-economic backgrounds. The goal of this program is to incorporate good teaching and therapy techniques in Special Needs schools and ensure that the children gets the care and attention that they need.

Under this program donor can sponsor a special needs school in India to provide basic facilities like teaching/learning equipment, therapy equipment, school building infrastructure, additional teachers, clean cloths, food, medical supply, durable medical equipment or transportation facilities to children. It takes minimum of US$1500 to sponsor a Special Needs school. This amount may be higher depending on the current status of the school and its requirements. A donor can sponsor entire project by donating US$1500. Donor may donate any amount as they like; in that case their donations will be pooled with other donations to fund a project. Bighelp surveys schools and fulfill their requirements in the order of their priority. Projects are implemented in the name of donor and all the details are published in our website.

Click here to view the list of projects under Special Needs Program.