HOW DO YOU COME IN
Person with speacialised skills in engineering,
Human
resources, computers etc.
If you feel strongly about rehabilitation issues or have a comment, remark or suggestion on our work – go ahead and use the bulletin board. This could include ideas on how and what we can do more to help. You will find that we have done a kick-off on the issue of import duties on assistive devices for persons with disablities.
As a pioneer in the field of industrial rehabilitation, we will also be happy to share with you our experience, should you be interested.
If you are a person qualified in Engineering, Human Resources Development or Social Work with some years of experience behind you and if you are considering working for a cause, write to us. Perhaps WORTH could provide you that opportunity. Or you may want to give us some of your time as a volunteer in any one area of our work. Over the years we have benefited from such service rendered by many individuals or teams of personnel – from students to experts both Indian and foreign – and we encourage you to get in touch with us.
If you are a person with disability – of either sex – and are looking for training or employment, do get in touch with us. You are the reason for our existence! There is bound to be a way we can be of some help to you. You can reach us at WORTH Trust, 48 New Thiruvalam Road, Katpadi - 632007, India. Phone: (91)-(0416)-2242739 / 2243739. Fax: (91)-(0416)-2243939. Email:worth@md3.vsnl.net.in
Give us work. We are competitive. Apart from the fact that we produce quality goods and that we do our utmost to meet committed delivery schedules, our pricing is also attractive. This is so because of two reasons: (1) while we do need to cover our costs and generate a surplus, we are not primarily profit driven (2) from time to time, the government exempts us from certain levies in recognition of our socially relevant work.
The combination of our industrial skills and the relatively low labour cost, also offers opportunities for tremendous cost savings in equipment assembly. While this is true particularly for companies in the West like Perkins, there are Indian examples as well, such as Rane TRW an automobile power steering major. Yet another possibility for main stream industries is to forge a strategic partnership with WORTH.
Recently Brakes India – a major automotive component supplier – did that with interesting benefits to both the parties. In this arrangement Brakes India have placed their machinery in WORTH’s premises and have trained the workforce to carry out some of their ancillary work for high precision components.
It has to be recognized that it is not only good commerce that makes such cooperation with WORTH meaningful – to be sure any such involvement will have to make sound commercial sense in order to succeed on a sustainable basis – but it is also a sense of commitment and corporate social responsibility, on the part of these companies.
International organizations concerned with disability issues would be enthused to learn that Business To Business cooperation is growing within the movement of Workability International, a prime example being a Hip Protector product designed and developed by Remploy in the U.K. and outsourced to WORTH for production in India – a win-win arrangement for both organizations ! WORTH Trust also seeks to become the supplier for mobility and other assistive devices for the handicapped.
Hospitals, rehabilitation centres and donor agencies, please take note ! WORTH’s Mobility unit also makes industrial material handling equipment such as pallets and trolleys.
The organization is also active in the area of new product development. Working together with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, WORTH has recently brought to the market place a low cost battery powered prosthetic hand.
Full participation and equality is the goal of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (1993-2002), according to United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. As this decade ends, it is time to examine how much of this goal is achieved in creating an environment that welcomes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the mainstream of community life.
Of the two essential and complementary means available for such inclusion, organizations like WORTH Trust are engaged in the first, that of placing appropriate assistive devices in the hands of persons with disabilities and providing them training and equipping them for employment. The second is the creation of barrier-free environment for access to and employment in the larger world of offices and factories; that responsibility lies with you. Yes, you can make a big difference!
