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ITANAGAR, 21 Nov:<\/strong> The social justice & empowerment and tribal affairs (SJETA) department organised various sports and other activities among the differently-abled children in special schools within the Itanagar Capital Region in the run-up to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) on 3 December.<\/p>\n ‘United in action to rescue and achieve the SDGs for, with and by persons with disabilities’ is the theme of this year’s IDPD celebration.<\/p>\n The observance of the day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilise support for the dignity, rights and wellbeing of persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n “Our focus is to bring them all to the mainstream to live a life of dignity and respect with normal society,” SJETA Director Yumlam Kaha said in a release.<\/p>\n A technical team from the department conducted various activities among the differently-abled children at the Donyi Polo Mission School for the Hearing and Visually Impaired in Chimpu; the K-Blooming Early Intervention Centre and Special School in Naharlagun; and the Sacred Heart Day Care Centre for Children with Special Needs in Itanagar, from 16 to 20 November.<\/p>\n The top three winners of every event will be given prizes on the day of the main celebration at the state banquet hall here on 3 December.<\/p>\n The department’s special educator Pura Aiya emphasised the need to “spread more social awareness and parents’ counselling, besides capacity-building activities to understand and categorise the problems or issues related to children with special needs.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the SJETA director further informed that a walkathon is being organised on 22 November to commemorate the Janjatiya Gaurav Divas.<\/p>\n The walkathon will start at 6 am from DK Convention Hall ground near IG Park here, and pass through the Niti Vihar, Abotani Colony, Bank Tinali, and VIP roads, before returning to the DK convention ground.<\/p>\n The first, second and third position winners will be given prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 21 Nov: The social justice & empowerment and tribal affairs (SJETA) department organised various sports and other activities among the differently-abled children in special schools within the Itanagar Capital Region in the run-up to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) on 3 December. ‘United in action to rescue and achieve the SDGs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}