Youth Wing For Disability Services
A Youth Wing for Disability Services recently formed in Coimbatore is all set to involve the youth in disability affairs.It will organise youth rallies, student seminars, essay-writing contests, oratorical contests and school awareness programmes on disability management. It has also proposed to identify jobs for persons with disabilities.Use of the youth wing for counselling parents and persons with disabilities
Facilitated by the UDIS (You and the Disabled) Forum, the youth wing consists of student volunteers of social work departments of colleges in Coimbatore. The GRD School of Social Work, where the wing was inaugurated, will serve as the nodal agency.“The UDIS Forum plans to make use of the youth wing for counselling parents and persons with disabilities for promoting education and employment,” said M.N.G. Mani, president, UDIS Forum.
Earlier a Memorandum of Understanding between the UDIS Forum and the GRD College of Science was signed.A.Ponnusamy, Principal of the GRD College, attended the programme. Subrajeet Choudhury from GRD College was elected president of the Executive Committee of the wing and D. Priyanka from PSG College of Arts and Science was chosen the secretary.
