1. A Promising Future Akhil Paul, Director, Sense International (India) 2 nd DbI Asian Conference, Dhaka, 29 th -31 st January 2006

2. Recognition of Deafblindness Social Communication- spread awareness about deafblindness Influence governments to recognise deafblindness as a separate and unique disability in the Acts and legislations Advocacy and campaigning for rights of deafblind people Generate relevant statistics by including deafblind people in different surveys Akhil Paul, 2 nd DbI Asian Conference, Dhaka, 29 th -31 st Jan 06

3. Access to services Strive that every deafblind person gets appropriate and needs-based services Develop a mechanism to be used in empowering even the grassroots level workers to identify deafblind persons All educational set-ups (including special schools) open their doors for deafblind children Akhil Paul, 2 nd DbI Asian Conference, Dhaka, 29 th -31 st Jan 06

4. Partnerships and Empowerment Develop partnerships with governments, main-stream/ development NGOs and INGOs Establish networks to empower deafblind people and their families Involve parents in decision making In-country and Inter-country networking/ Learning from each other Akhil Paul, 2 nd DbI Asian Conference, Dhaka, 29 th -31 st Jan 06

5. Human Resource Development Skill development programmes for creating a pool of trained/ qualified human resources Build capacity of educators from single disability to conduct assessment and develop education programmes within the purview of their schools Training/ exposure visits for educators Akhil Paul, 2 nd DbI Asian Conference, Dhaka, 29 th -31 st Jan 06

6. “Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.” Akhil Paul, 2 nd DbI Asian Conference, Dhaka, 29 th -31 st Jan 06