I want to tell you about a couple that I met on my visit to the SPREAD project with people with disabilities, somewhere out in the field near the border with the state of Chattisgarh. They were a striking looking couple, full of smiles and looking after a couple of the children who had come to the meeting.
Both the man and the woman are mentally impaired, have locomotor disabilities and problems with their hearing and speech.
SPREAD has been helping them attain their legal rights and providing them with vocational training. They now earn income through activities such as leaf plate making using forest products. These plates are commonly used in this part of India, providing a cheap and clean way to serve food, completely disposable and biodegradeable and more important (for me, anyway!) - no washing up!
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