About NGO:

BMVSS is a voluntary organisation for helping the handicapped. It is a registered society set up in 1975 which provides artificial limbs, calipers, crutches, wheel chairs, hearing aids, etc. free of cost.

BMVSS is the world's largest organization for the handicapped. 2% of India's population suffer from disability, with .8 % suffering from 'locomotive disability' that is, the loss of a limb through polio, leprosy, etc. People suffering from disability are usually illiterate and living below the poverty line. Our technology of Jaipur artificial limbs and calipers is world famous. We are further improving it with the support of Stanford University, Indian Space Research Organisation etc.The Mumbai Center with its head office in Jaipur started in 1993 with the objective of physical, economic, and social rehabilitation of people with disabilities, enabling them to regain their self-respect, mobility and human dignity so that they join the main stream of society as useful members.

Fund Usage:

Donations will be spend for reaching out to more interior parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa and Gujarat and helping the handicapped by giving free artificial limbs, calipers, cruthes, wheel chairs, tricycles and hearing aids.

Impact:

With the funds we could do a camp at Gadchiroli, the naxal area near Chandrapur and Shirdi, Ahmednagar district, for 300 amputees.

Page Url :
http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo105_bmvss.htm

Founded Year: 1975

Cause category: Education