Mrs. Poonam Tyagi's (SETU founder) interview on P7 News Channel

View Mrs. Poonam Tyagi's (SETU founder) interview on P7 News Channel

Health sector initiative by SETU

SETU foundation is working mainly for the education and employability of under-privileged and disabled people. Most of SETU’s centres are on the outskirts of Dwarka, Delhi. Dwarka sub-city has no government hospital and the weaker section of the society are either dependent on quacks or end up paying a lot, even for minor ailments.

Keeping this in mind the SETU team approached Sir Gangaram Hospital. Their ladies welfare wing sends a diagnostic Volvo bus to different slum areas of Delhi. This Volvo bus has been designed by ISRO and has the facility of X-Ray, ECG, blood test, etc, beside a dedicated team of medical professionals. The Volvo is equipped with a dish antenna and is connected via satellite, so that a specialist may be contacted in case of emergency. A nominal fee is charged for a test, if required and  Rs.10 is taken as consultation fee. Most of the prescribed medicines are given free of cost by the hospital.

This service is available on every Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.  One can see the bus in Sec 3 (Papankalan), at the end of vegetable market (Mangal bazaar) road near Shani Mandir. SETU volunteers remain there to help out the patients.

The response from the beneficiaries is very encouraging as many people end up saving a lot of trouble and money by utilizing the services. SETU wishes more and more people come and make full use of the facility.

Setu Partners with Sursagar Society Delhi Gharana

Dear Music Lovers, Connoisseurs & Friends,

Thanks on behalf of Sursagar Society of Delhi Gharana and Setu for encouraging our efforts. It was a treat to watch eminent personalities performing on the stage and newcomers rendering the opening composition. These new comers included some of Setu members who, although are so called DIFFERENTLY-ABLE, performed with great gusto at “Tasawwuff Ke Rang”- A Soulful Sufi Evening for the Cause of National Integration on Sunday, 24th Jan, 2010 at 6.00 PM, Kamani Auditorium,No.1, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi.
Please watch the video at YOU TUBE by clicking at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH9BXpNd7nY

SETU - Bridging the Gap

Disability & Inclusive Education

Started with a tiny spark of desire to make a difference and to be able to give something back to the society and nurtured in the heart, Setu-an NGO was born in the year 2007. In this short span of time Setu has started making inroad in bridging the gap between underprivileged people and the mainstream of the society by making underprivileged self reliant। Slowly more people have joined up and the caravan of people has grown bigger. Presently Setu has outreach across the length and breadth of the country benefiting a large number of differently-able people. Besides disability sector, Setu has spread its wings towards inclusive education sector for the underprivileged and children with a back ward economic background and has met with considerable success.

A word about the special people; one look is enough to realize that differently-able people are second to none when it comes to their talent and determination to work hard, however, what they lack is the opportunity and an attitudinal change of the society at large towards them. Towards this end and to sensitize the environment, several projects are in operation by Setu. Some of the successful projects are in the category of digital empowerment especially for the visually challenged people, education, and vocational training for self employment. Setu also helps these people to study further by financing their education and assists them in getting jobs.

Sangeet Shakti is one such effort through which Setu has been able to bridge the gap even in a more meaningful manner as it not only provides platform of musically enabled people to become self reliant but also the music in itself becomes a therapy for them. There are many Stevie Wonders hidden amongst them and our current effort is to bring them to fore.

Setu is dedicated and focused on incorporating these people into normal life patterns and making them realize that despite their disabilities, they can lead life with dignity and with their self esteem intact by encouraging them and assisting them in every possible way to get jobs in respectable organizations.

Lets all join hands in realizing this dream and assist the differently-able to become not only self reliant but also, a beacon of success despite disability.