Inside Me
Inside Me
A Non Government Organization

“Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was the sun, light, and all colours. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everything was there and movement as well.” 

Jacques Lusseyran

Blind Hero of the French Revolution

India is home to one of the largest populations of visually impaired (specially-abled) children. Of the 1.6 million children that are blind or visually impaired, about 90% belong to a low-income group or live below the poverty line. According to National Program for Control of Blindness (NPCB), only about 30% of the blind children are part of the formal education system. This grim situation raises the question about the basic question of survival and dignified livelihood of specially-abled students, who are often at dead ends once they graduate from the local schools.

Secondary schools that educate the visually challenged students continue to report  a significant number of drop out students who do not complete their school education, due to various reasons, more so for students coming from the economically weaker sections of the society. Even for the students completing their 10+2 formal education, not many students make it to the colleges for higher studies, this making these students fully dependent on their family members and near ones.

 

It may be disappointing to note that none of the schools, which these visually challenged students attend, have no vocational training course that could help the students opt for early career should they fail to seek admissions in colleges for higher studies. 

 

While the government is trying its best to address the problem of financial dependency of visually impaired persons, it is still limited in efforts considering the magnitude of the problem. This is a challenge that needs to be addressed both by the government and also the society so that these visually challenged drop out students could be financially self-dependent and lead a dignified life.

 

Inside Me is a unique initiative that aims to up-skill, train & develop the visually challenged students with the certain vocational abilities so that when these students complete their formal school education, they are equipped with at least one such skill that would enable them to explore and seek simple career opportunities.

 

Inside Me currently operates two vocational skilling & training projects in schools that educate visually challenged students with an objective of equipping the passing out students with vocational skills so that they could seek early employment opportunities should they decide or fail not to pursue higher studies.

The first project namely the Blind Arts Project aims to train the visually challenged students aged 8 ~ 18 years in the field of Arts, along with their ongoing school education, to develop their capabilities to a level where they could create beautiful art works that could be monetized via different commercial platforms, auctions and art exhibitions so that the students could realize their earning potential and live a self-sustaining and dignified life.


The second project namely the Holistic Healing Project aims to train and skill senior students in the field of holistic healing therapies so that after these students complete their formal schooling, they are equipped with additional skills where they could start their careers as holistic healing therapist.


We work for the following Sustainable Development Goals.

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No Poverty
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Quality Education
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Reduced Inequalities

About Us

Inside Me, is a unique non-profit organisation that focuses on skill enhancement of specially-abled (visually challenged) under privileged students aged between 8 ~ 18 years, by teaching them to visualise and draw beautiful artworks.

Based in New Delhi, while the organisation has been working with the visually challenged & under privileged students since 2013, Inside Me was formally registered in the year 2017. So far, the organisation has been driven by passionate volunteers from different walks of life and has mainly included college students, academicians, Indian & multinational corporate executives, doctors and health care personnel.


P Shivani Bhardwaj

Our Activities

We work with some of the most amazing human beings namely the visually challenged students. 

Working with young children is both very interesting, engaging and rewarding. However, working with visually challenged students is quite different than working with normal students.

Click in the button below to discover the dark and opaque world of these wonderful students and how we work with them.

Impact

Our students play and work very hard to create beautiful Artworks, something that one generally does not expect from visually challenged students.

Our engagement with them, touches lives of not just the students but leaves a lasting impression in the minds of our teachers, volunteers, parents of these students and project donors who all are the stakeholders to our Blind Arts project.

Find out what all stakeholders have to say about the outcomes of this project.

Gallery

Over the years, Inside Me has been working with various schools for blind children and also participating in various art festivals and events.

Read what the media thinks about us.

Please click the button below to see the media gallery.

Support Us

While we are doing everything we can, to improve the lives of the visually challenged students, we are limited by our resources and reach. There is so much more to be done for them.

We urge and invite you to come forward and participate in our project. There are a number of ways that you can help and support us. 

Please explore more to see the option that suits you well and the one that gives you the satisfaction of doing your bit towards the visually challenged and underprivileged students.

Donate

Ever bit of financial help that Inside Me receives from its generous donors goes towards educating and skilling visually challenged  underprivileged students.

Financial donation is the quickest way a donor can contribute towards meeting the day-to-day expenses of the Blind Arts & Holistic Healing projects.

Explore the donation options that you wish to choose and promote our efforts.