Community Based Rehabilitation – CBR is a Community supported program
for the benefit of persons with disability of that community using
available resources from that Community. Rehabilitation is a process
which takes the person with disability on the road towards achieving
maximum / or near normal status in physical, mental and social life.
Objectives of CBR:
To gain
a respectful place for PWD.
To train
and make PWD financially independent.
To help
achieve their rights.
Functions of CBR:
To
conduct house to house survey.
To train
PWD as per his capacity.
To
conduct camps for assessment and supply of aids and appliances.
To get
ID cards.
To
supply dressing material to PWD.
To
liaise with PHC - CHC and NGOS in the field required.
To
create awareness.
To
encourage forming self help groups.
Future Mission:
To
organize assessment clinics. To start small units for training and
treatment of C.P., M.D. Children and others. To create self help
group. To create awareness through street play, exhibition staff etc.
To encourage income generating activities and gain respectful place
for PWD in their community.
Maharshi Ashtavakra Yojana:
Maharshi
Ashtavakra Yojana is a Community Based Rehabilitation Programme
covering disabled persons of Mandvi Taluka funded by Department of
Social Justice and Empowerment.
“CBR involves measures taken at the community level to use and build
on the resources of the community level to use and build on the
resources of the community, including the impaired, disabled and the
handicapped persons themselves, their families and their community
as a whole”.
CBR is cost effective, individual need based and result oriented.
Community Based Rehabilitation 
