Shortlisted Entries
Geeta Bhatia
- Age: 30
- City: Delhi
Anukrama was idealized in 2015 when founder Geeta Bhatia got a Skype call from Kuwait seeking her suggestions to help her deaf sister in India to get her Immigration visa to USA, after conversation with her she thought how powerful social media is to connect people all over. This left, Geeta in deep thought to brainstorm on how to empower the deaf society of our country.
India has the biggest populace of hard of hearing and quiet individuals on the planet but then there is no mindfulness about hard of hearing society. It is evaluated that the quantity of hard of hearing individuals could differ from 5 million to 18 million. Henceforth, it ends up noticeably stunning to reveal that instructors at extraordinary schools for hard of hearing don't comprehend what Sign Language is. Hard of hearing group still confronts separation as the correspondence boundary is combined with specific taboos. A hard of hearing tyke can't get a similar sort of social submersion or instruction at home and school as there is nobody to show them in a dialect they would get it. Anukrama is working towards satisfying this need by giving free of cost instruction to hard of hearing and quiet understudies in Indian Sign Language. To spread mindfulness about ISL, Anukrama offers ISL classes for hearing individuals instructed by a hard of hearing instructor. Aside from giving classes, they additionally attempt to conquer any hindrance amongst hearing and hard of hearing groups by making connecting with occasions and workshops.
Geeta Bhatia grew up with her senior sister who is her listening ability weakened. However, as it says love has no dialect; so it didn't prevent them from discussing their sentiments with each other. Geeta took in the gesture based communication to be the voice of her kin. Geeta was very much aware about the issues confronted by the hard of hearing individuals. She generally needed to support the group and trying to make open doors for hard of hearing.
With passing time, Anukrama seeks to be one of the best foundations helping the deaf society of our country along with empowering underprivileged kids in education and basic necessities.