- Frequently Asked Questions -



1. What is disability?
A disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual or group. The term is used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment, mental illness and various types of chronicals diseases.
The main categories of disability are physical, sensory, physiological and intellectual. A physical disability is the most common, followed by mental/behavioral and sensory. Many people with disabilities have multiple disabilities.

  • Physical disabilities generally relate to disorders of the musculoskeletal, circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems.

  • Sensory disabilities involve impairments in hearing and vision.

  • Mental/behavioral disorders include intellectual and developmental disabilities, which relate to difficulties with thought processes, learning, communicating, remembering information and using it appropriately, making judgments and problem solving. They also include anxiety disorders, phobias and depression.

    • 2. I am one/related to physically or mentally challenged person. How will Colorss help me?
    Colorss will help groom your innate skills and enhance your potential. For more details contact us.

    3. How does your Training Vocational Centre work?
    Colorss believe in promoting self-sustaining projects, aiming to halt, reverse and prevent the erosion and loss of each participant’s innate skills, simultaneously building new skill sets, physical fitness and personal confidence.
    Every project is incorporated with vocational training. So that each participant is taught and his/her innate skills are groomed properly thus making the project self sustaining.

    4. I am a Corporate. How can I help?
    The Colorss Foundation’s most basic goal is to assist disabled and otherwise marginalized individuals to overcome the social and personal obstacles that keep them at the fringes of society — in other words, to prepare such individuals for full integration into Indian society.
    Our primary method is simple: education is the best tool we have to advance the interests of these people. By educating and training these individuals, thus preparing them for careers and rewarding lives as full members of the community, we could enable previously isolated and unsatisfied people to help themselves and to rise above the disadvantaged position they formerly occupied. We believe that all people have the potential to contribute to society and that for these marginalized individuals, we must not allow their innate skills and potential to erode and disappear simply by failing to provide them with the specialized education that they deserve.
    With corporate sponsors supporting our efforts, Colorss Foundation can continue to help people help themselves. By taking an active role in this arena, companies are not only generating goodwill but also building better lives for their neighbors, employees and customers.
    Vocational training is an important part of the Colorss agenda. The Foundation provides disadvantaged and disabled people with the skills and resources they need to be productive and independent participants in their communities. By aiding those who might not have access to job training or who might otherwise lose innate skills, Colorss, in partnership with local businesses, benefits both the individual and the community at large, while providing trained workers in an otherwise overlooked pool of labor.
    Team with us to create vocational training partnerships and contact us with your ideas for community relations programs. You can also help Colorss with your financial support and donations of arts-and-crafts supplies, as well as computer equipment.
    Your support of the Colorss Foundation as our partner in these educational projects is an excellent opportunity to bring together important and often overlooked stakeholders in the economic and professional life of the nation.
    Check our Get Involved section for a brief from benefits for corporate.

    5. What are Colorss future projects?
    Project Enhance is the future project in pipeline. Project Enhance empowers the disabled and facilitates their inclusion into mainstream life, by training participants in karate, while providing guidance for artistic expression. This program uses sports and the arts as tools to promote physical well-being while also improving mental health. Led by a second-degree black belt who has more than 15 years martial arts training, this initiative will provide instruction to no handicapped children alongside those afflicted with mild, moderate or profound mental retardation, cerebral palsy, depression, attention deficit disorder, behavioral problems and down's syndrome.

    6. I want to work with Colorss. What should I do?
    Write to us what makes you motivated to work with Colorss and along with your detailed CV email us. We will get back to you.

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