NGO to hold mass wedding for couples with disabilities

May 22, 2016 12:00 am | Updated September 12, 2016 07:54 pm IST - MUMBAI:

Narayan Seva Sansthan, an NGO that has been providing a platform to people with disabilities to meet and find a life partner, will hold a wedding for 51 disabled couples in Goregaon on May 29. This will be the Udaipur-based NGO’s first such event in the city.

NGO members said on Saturday that they will be working towards all-round rehabilitation of the destitute, orthopedically handicapped and those suffering from polio and cerebral palsy. “We aim to provide physical rehabilitation through corrective surgery, economic rehabilitation through training and social rehabilitation through marriage,” Ravish Kavdia, a spokesperson, said.

The NGO organises Viklang Vivah twice a year and has got 1,100 couples to tie the knot till date.

The writer is an intern at The Hindu

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