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{"id":5286,"date":"2021-02-27T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T07:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doerlife.com\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2022-12-27T16:13:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:13:18","slug":"dilshad-mehershahi-co-founder-of-mann-talks-about-the-foundation-challenges-of-running-mumbais-foremost-special-needs-ngo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doerlife.com\/dilshad-mehershahi-co-founder-of-mann-talks-about-the-foundation-challenges-of-running-mumbais-foremost-special-needs-ngo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilshad Mehershahi, Co-founder of MANN Talks About the Foundation & Challenges of Running Mumbai\u2019s Foremost Special needs NGO."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
One of the most noble callings in the world is to set aside one\u2019s privilege and dedicate time to the service of others. On February 27th, World NGO Day, we check in with one such person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dilshad Mehershahi is a co-founder of MANN, a Mumbai-based NGO that helps prepare individuals with special needs for the job market, by imparting vocational training over a period of one to three years. In an interview with DOER Life, she opened up about her experiences founding MANN, the challenges that the social sector faced because of the pandemic and how MANN overcame the crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the story of MANN? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
MANN began ten years ago, when we realised that there was a need to provide age-appropriate training and services to adults with disabilities, especially those who can’t afford these services provided outside. Often, people with disabilities from underprivileged backgrounds have not had any formal training and have spent their formative years at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early on in our career as special educators, Beverly Louis, Geetanjali Gaur and I realised the need to impart job related skill training adults over 18 years. We piloted this idea by starting a weekend hobby class to expose the underprivileged adults to various experiences. The feedback from the parents was very positive and they encouraged us to regularise the class and this was when Mann was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n