Welcome to Enable
January 2006: The opening of the Enable Home for Disabled Children at Cherukumpalem, Ongole. Pictured with some of the children are Enable’s founders Alison Davis and Colin Harte
Enable (Working in India) is a UK registered charity (no. 1053560). It was founded in 1995 to support disabled children in Andhra Pradesh state, South India. It has supported rehabilitation centres in the towns of Kanigiri and Ongole, and also supported disabled children living in the surrounding areas.
Between 1995 and 2006 Enable worked with an Indian partner organisation called the Dayananda Nilayam Society for Social Development (DNSSD). Developments during these years were described in News Update 17, Summer 2005.
During 2006, Enable discovered that the DNSSD’s Director, Fr Gali Arulraj, had systematically defrauded Enable and stolen a considerable amount. Supported by collaborators in the DNSSD (some of whom are his family members) Arulraj refused to resign. Sadly, he has ended most of our projects in India, putting the lives and well-being of the disabled children we were caring for in jeopardy.
Arulraj and his collaborators in the DNSSD are now subject to criminal proceedings.
Enable is especially calling upon the Indian authorities to cancel the registration of the DNSSD. All of its properties and assets were funded by Enable, and we are appealing to the authorities to entrust them to Enable so that we can resume the necessary work for disabled children.
Enable is resolved to achieve a just solution to the problems caused by Arulraj and the DNSSD. Although our activities are necessarily restricted until this is achieved, we are doing what is possible to assist disabled children and young adults at college/university who have been affected by the problems.
© Enable (Working In India) 2007
