Mysore/Mysuru: Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) is a development organisation engaged in building a new civil society in India. 

With one of its initiatives, SVYM started working for the specially-abled persons from 1996  and is currently running a “Comprehensive Care, Support, and Treatment for Persons with Disabilities’’ (CCST-PWDs), an Institution and Community-based rehabilitation programme focusing on all 21 types of disabilities in Mysuru and Kodagu districts in collaboration with community, various Government Departments and like-minded NGOs/ Corporates. Around 22 lakh people are being sensitised and so far nearly 40,000 PWDs are directly benefited.

As part of creating awareness about “Amazing Ability” of specially-abled,  SVYM has initiated a monthly webinar series since Dec.3, 2020. The eighth webinar in this series is scheduled between 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm on Aug.19, featuring achiever Sai Prasad Vishwanathan. 

Sai has featured in the iconic  “Sathyamev Jayate”  TV programme, is the first Asian with a disability to set foot on the Antarctic continent and is also a recipient of Helen Keller Role Model-2010 Award. He is the first physically challenged Indian to skydive from an altitude of  14,000 feet which finds mention in the Limca Book of Records. 

Sai Prasad will share his journey of exceptional achievements at the webinar. Interested can register on this link – https://forms.gle/rLsgNvHTwGYX7Sxo8; Please follow the Zoom Link to join the webinar series – https://zoom.us/j/95437396572?pwd=bldNZ3FLakE4VXQyUzZjQ2NIL1dNZz09; Meeting ID: 954 3739 6572; Passcode: 282668. 

For details, contact Mob: 95900-91177.