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| leader_title = President
| leader_name = Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor
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| leader_name2 = Rameshbhai Ishwarlal Gandhi
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| leader_name3 = Swami Rajbharti
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'''Disable Welfare Trust of India (DWTI)''' is an Indian [[non governmental organisation]] based in [[Surat]], [[Gujarat]], India, working in the areas of education, environment and the empowerment of women.

==Profile==
The Disable Welfare Trust of India was formed in 1991 by [[Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor]], a physically disabled person who suffered permanent disability to his legs due to [[poliomyelitis]] he contracted at the age of eleven.<ref name="TOI">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Bravery-awards-distributed-to-heroes-working-at-grassroot-level/articleshow/19936786.cms | title=TOI | publisher=TOI | date=May 7, 2013 | accessdate=November 21, 2014}}</ref> The primary aim of the organisation was to provide education and vocational training to the disabled children and work for their rehabilitation.<ref name="About">{{cite web | url=http://www.disableindia.org/about-us.html | title=About | publisher=DWTI | date=2014 | accessdate=November 21, 2014}}</ref> The activities during the initial years were limited due to paucity of funds but Tailor conducted a survey where he identified 1280 disabled children. A chance meeting, in 1997, with the then Police Commissioner of Surat, P. C. Pande and S. R. Rao, the Municipal Commissioner, helped the trust to get 10 rooms in a primary school. Here, Kanubhai started a school,<ref name="Wikimapia">{{cite web | url=http://wikimapia.org/8910256/Disable-Welfare-Trust-of-India | title=Wikimapia | publisher=Wikimapia | date=2014 | accessdate=November 21, 2014}}</ref> on 1 July 1957, with the financial assistance of {{INR}} 51,000 from Pande. Starting with four children, the trust grew to a student strength of 118 by the year end, and provided free transportation, educational aids, lunch and physiotherapy treatment to them.<ref name="About" /><ref name="Wikimapia" /><ref name="Charity">{{cite web | url=http://www.charity.org.in/view_charity_org.php?lid=11452&name=Disable%2520Welfare%2520Trust%2520of%2520India | title=Charity | publisher=Charity.org | date=2014 | accessdate=November 21, 2014}}</ref>

In 2000, the school moved to a larger facility with 18 rooms given by the Municipal corporation at Khatodara, Surat and the student strength grew to 400. Later, on a free land measuring 4500 square yards, a new facility was constructed in 2006, the foundation stone laid by the then Vice President of India, [[Bhairon Singh Shekhawat]] and the construction completed with the assistance of [[Reliance Industries]] and [[Larsen and Toubro]].<ref name="About" /> The trust claims that the project is a success with many students going on to complete various professional degrees in management, engineering and medicine.<ref name="About" />

The Trust is constructing a new facility to accommodate 1000 children and has plans to set up a hospital for corrective surgeries for disabilities. It also has a scheme to guide physically handicapped people from the villages for availing loans, from {{INR}} 150,000 to {{INR}} 500,000 for setting up own businesses from the Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation, a government run institution.<ref name="About" />

The main source of funding is through donations for which the government has extended tax exemption facility.<ref name="Wikimapia" /><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.disableindia.org/charity.html | title=Charity | publisher=DWTI | date=2014 | accessdate=November 21, 2014}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5JCGtcA7-M | title=Disabled Welfare Trust of India | publisher=YouTube | work=Video | date=4 March 2012 | accessdate=November 21, 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPjxBaIdnEw | title=Documentary film Disable welfare trust of india | publisher=YouTube | work=Video | date=15 March 2013 | accessdate=November 21, 2014}}

[[Category:Charities based in India]]
[[Category:Disability organisations based in India]]
[[Category:1991 establishments in Gujarat]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1991]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Gujarat]]

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