The Association for People with Disability (APD) is a Bangalore based organization working since 1959 for children, youth and adults with various types of disabilities – primarily those with physical disability, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, development delay, and speech and multiple disability.

Our coverage extends to Tumkur, Kolar, Koppal and Haveri districts. We have linkages with voluntary organizations across south India and work with poor communities in and around Bangalore.

Founding principles:

• to enhance the self-esteem and productivity of people with disabilities
• to integrate them at different levels of society and industry, and
• to create space for them in the socio-economic arena of the country and the world.

Primary goals and objectives

• capacitate and enable people with disabilities to towards self-sustainability and empowerment
• catalyzing mutually beneficial relationships with key stakeholders

Empowering methodologies at a glance

• Education
• Therapeutic counseling, services and provision of mobility aids
• Vocational skills training and support in the placement of people with disabilities, with special focus on women and people with spinal cord injuries.
• Networking and advocacy

*(APD is registered under the Mysore Societies Registration Act)