The Institution
Sashi Mangalyam School was founded with a big dream to assist Mentally Challenged Children to enable them to overcome their disabilities. The School had seven children to begin with but gradually the number swelled to 30 in 1962.
Consequently the coverage of type of disabilities also increased, which resulted in diversification of expertise for need-based training programmers, gender specific activities and types of services to be imparted pupils to uplift them with dignity and confidence.
The Sashi Mangalyam Workshop for the Mentally Challenged girls was established in 1979. It was recognised by the Goverment in 1995.
The School was shifted to present premises of Goregaon (east) donated by Mr. & Mrs. Srinivasan in 1994. After mooving to this spacious premises, the school was in a position to offer many special services to the Mentally Challenged children. The following activities were added”
- Individual Educational plan.
- Guidance & Counselling to parents.
- Computer Literacy Programmes.
- Prevocational Training.
- Communication Programme for children with no speech /speech problems.
- We also offer study faculties of the National Institute of open school.(NIOS)
Sashi Mangalyam boys Workshop was for boys above 18 and below 30 years of age and who are independent in taking self care and trainable.
Founder Trustee
Sashi Mangalyam School for children in need of special care was established in 1958 at Juhu a western suburb in Mumbai, India, by an enlightened educationist & psychologist, late Mrs. Sushilaben Shrinivasan.
Mrs. Shrinivasan received her MA in Literature from S.N.D.T. University in 1939. In 1946 she had the honour of receiving a scholarship from the Watumall Foundation in the U.S.A. to pursue advanced studies in Psychological Social Work at the University of Michigan, from where she earned an M.S.W. in 1948, while most other Watumall Scholars preferred to settle abroad, Sushilaben chose to return home in order to contribute to her people, by starting one of the earliest institutions in India intended to help those that needed the most help, children with severe learning disabilities, till she passed away in February 2005.
Her vision was to address the issue of Educational, Psychological & Normalizations of mentally challenged children requiring special care with a scientific approach and expertise. In the year 1980, Sushilaben successfully started “Sashi Mangalyam Education Society's Girls' Workshop, which till today caters to the training of mentally challenged girls in vocations that are practical and useful to the girls, namely, crafts and household activity. It has enabled these girls to be self-sufficient and even contribute financially to their families, thus being an asset to their family and to society.