AMBA VISION
AMBA is about changing paradigms and mindsets in regard to Adults with Developmental Delays! AMBA challenges one’s pre-conceived notions about this section of persons with Intellectual Disabilities and gives one a glimpse into infinite possibilities for them…with a Focus on Rural India!
AMBA’S MISSION
Despite the recent Pandemic, remains unchanged…to build, operate and sustain training/employment operations within 525 ACPCs (AMBA certified partner centres What is an ACPC?) to enable financial and operational sustainability, while continuing to Scale!
AMBA during the Pandemic enabled work from Home leveraging the invaluable support from the Mothers from the community AMBA serves.
AMBA has to date revived 205 ACPCs from across 15 states in India.
AMBA CONCEPT NOTE
CONCEPT NOTEAMBA's Operational Model
What is an AMBA Certified Partner Centre?
Partnership with Organisations
AMBA partners with organisations who are in the space of rehabilitation, early intervention, and education of persons with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities.
The Problem Statement
The problem statement with these organisations is their lack of expertise/focus in providing employment opportunities for their beneficiaries. Additionally, increased behavior challenges during puberty force the organisation to send them home. The organisations feel their efforts over the years are in vain as:
- The individual, even though they have gone through years of rehabilitation, regresses back to where they started in a short period of three months.
- They are considered a huge burden on the family, and the stigma attached to them further adds to the disruption within the family. This also increases the drain of resources as one parent now has to stay home to manage the individual.
AMBA's Standard Model
AMBA over the years has built a standard model of generating an asset within the Special Institution, in collaboration and partnership, to enable an AMBA Certified Partner Centre (ACPCS) which takes them in continuity into Livelihoods.
1. Training and Development
AMBA’s training develops and improves behavior challenges and individuals’ holistic daily living capability.
2. Phases of Learning
Initiates different phases of learning, peer-driven, to enable functional usage of the computer.
3. Simulated Circumstances
They thereafter take them into simulated circumstances to maximize efficiency in doing varied backend work, across genres of clientele.
4. Utilizing Existing Collaterals
AMBA uses existing collaterals available with the partner like space, furniture, administration, trainers, and adult beneficiaries to start the process of generating ACPCs. Using existing collaterals keeps operational and overhead costs to a minimum. They then partner with the CSR of organisations to bring in the assets required to fully generate a functional ACPC.
5. Monitoring and Excellence
AMBA uses ICT to monitor excellence within the ACPCs.
6. Business Development
AMBA’s role extends beyond training to developing and demonstrating meaningful business opportunities through pilot projects aligned with the training. The ACC will continue these initiatives while supporting and enabling ACPCs to develop suitable business opportunities within their networks.
7. Economic Impact
On starting work, the ACPC now makes an economic impact for the individuals and, over time, financial sustainability for running the ACPCs.
Engagement and Sustainability
AMBA and the CSR’s engagement with these partner organisations is limited to adults seeking employment opportunities and registered within the ACPC.
AMBA invests 2-3 years in taking ACPC to run activity independently. Thereafter, AMBA exits the partnership while remaining a knowledge partner in continuity.
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