Prabh Aasra – A brief history
- Founders could not bear to see unclaimed people stranded on the roadside in pitiable conditions.
- Shamsher Singh Ji tried to contact various Government and other various social and religious institutes and asked them to assist by providing support to rehabilitate these citizens but could not found required response.
- In 2003, Shamsher Singh ji and his wife Rajinder Kaur Ji then setup Prabh Aasra in a 2 room rented accommodation.
- This has been continuously growing and today, Prabh Aasra has 4 operational centers in about 10 acres of Land to provide different facilities for their rehabilitation.
1983 people have been admitted so far
1299 have been reunited with their respected families
423 Inhabitants are currently residing in 3 campuses.
- 4 centers currently operational in Kurali, Jhanjeri (Distt. S.A.S Nagar) and Pherurain (Distt. Ludhiana) and Chanalon, Kurali, Punjab, India.
- Fourth center providing unconditional medical services for the destitute and under-privileged who couldn’t hope for the treatment & diagnosis in the hour of need. For others it works on a non profit basis.
Prabh Aasra – How the inhabitants are referred?
- Prabh Aasra gets different types of patients from different sources as below.
- Police/ administration/ Local government authorities. Hospitals
- General Public
- Referred by Courts
- Gurdwaras and Religious Institutes
- Found by the roadsides
- Rescued from home (Domestic Violence / Old People/Mentally disturbed)
- Rape victims/Unclaimed pregnant women
- Left at Prabh Aasra Cradle (Infants/ Unwanted girl children)
Prabh Aasra is meant for:
- Those who are suffering from mental illness/ intellectual disability and devoid of the opportunity of care, treatment and rehabilitation.
- Those who have no able body, shelter, family and wandering in deserted places.
- More than 80% of those who reach Prabh Aasra are suffering from some kind of mental illness/intellectual disability.
- Destitute/ Orphan children are being referred by child welfare committees and police administration.
- A majority of these inhabitants recovered through the love, care, counseling and treatment provided by the team at Prabh Aasra, without discrimination of caste, color, creed, age or sex.
- As a result, those who were having no hope in their life,with the grace of almighty and support of generous people, very soon recovered and re-united under Mission Milaap, with their respective families.
Prabh Aasra – Key Activities
- Shelter , Medicine , Recreation for all the inhabitants and academic education for normal children.
- Cradle for unwanted children- 16 new born children welcomed so far.
- 24/7 ambulance services for the roadside victims with the help of Seven ambulances.
- Medical camps, distribution of things in need for the poor and needy.
- Mortuary services, free of cost.
- Vocational training for self dependency of the Residents.
- Special education, games coaching, co-curricular activities for special and normal inhabitants.
- Awareness: regarding ethics,values,save the ecosystem, female foeticide and sow saplings.
- Children with complex and multiple disabilities have equal rights to, dignified life and education. We fight for their cause to support that they get the right place in Society.
- Our mission is to provide the finest possible rehabilitation opportunities, health care and compassionate environment.
- Development of personality , talent, creativity as well as mental and physical abilities of specially abled persons admitted to our Society.
- Integrate children with disabilities in special education after they have acquired communication and daily living skills at a functional level.
- To provide educational opportunities for children with disabilities in common schools and facilitate their retention in such schools
- To make the intellectually weak inhabitants self dependent, toilet trained and make them least dependent on support of others and participate effectively in free society.
- To help citizens during disaster relief in different parts of the country.
Mission Milaap
To accommodate the rising numbers in Society, every effort is made to rehabilitate & send them to their homes after improving their health. The process of reuniting of inhabitants with their families has been given the name ‘Mission Milaap’ The inhabitants received in the Ashrams of the Society, are generally mentally depressed, physically handicapped or both. With due care and medication when they improve and reveal their identity or inform about their residential addresses, villages or towns etc, the Society gears up its machinery to trace their families with the help of concerned Police Authorities. Economically weaker people who can not afford to come to Society from the far flung areas of the country, their wards are handed over to them at their residences. The inhabitants of economically weaker section of West Bengal, Assam, Orissa, Bihar , Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab were handed over at their native places. Under Mission Milaap New MILESTONE has been achieved by reuniting more than 1292 inhabitants with their traced out families.
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Prabh Aasra is totally dependent on philanthropists to meet its budgetary requirements. Currently the monthly budget for operational expenses is in excess of USD 45000.00.
Prabh Aasra Current Monthly Operational Expenses in USD
Thank you for your generous support. Learn more at: www.prabhaasra.org
