The Spastics Centre Kanpur was registered in April 1990, to provide help and guidance to spastic children and their families. The Centre is the first of its kind in Uttar Pradesh to concentrate solely on the care of children with spastic and related disabilities, chiefly locomotor handicaps. Our goal is to help such children realise their potential and to become useful members of society.

The programme we have undertaken is outside the scope of hospital treatment, and fulfills a felt need of children stricken at birth by brain damage. This is a condition known as Spasticity (the technical term for which is cerebral palsy). Lacking knowledge and guidelines, parents often try to cope with the problem

on their own, and feel sad and inadequate when they see no improvement. They do not know what to do and where to go.

Children are the most vulnerable victims, and among them, those afflicted with spastic disabilities almost totally neglected. This was what prompted a small group of volunteers to start a Centre for their rehabilitation.

The city of Kanpur situated on the banks of the river Ganga is an industrial metropolis, the eighth largest in India. Its population of nearly five million spans out over a vast network of urban and rural districts. Congestion and poor living conditions follow inevitably, with which limited health services are unable to cope.

There are many success stories, of spastic adults, who despite their shortcomings are leading useful and productive lives. Brain damage has not conquered their will to exercise their cognitive faculties and prove their mettle. All this was possible because of concerned people who realised the need to teach them basic skills and to awaken their hidden potential. This is precisely the cause Spastics Centre Kanpur has taken up and for which we need your co-operation.