COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION: PROVIDE BARRIER FREEENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

Community-based rehabilitation approach providesrehabilitation reduce poverty, equal opportunities, and social insertion for differently abled people at community level. Objective of CBR is to meet the needs of people with disabilitieswith the respect to health, educat ion, employment, social and economic empowerment issues (WHO 2010). Statement of the problems: I am going to find out the barriers which affect the available facilities for disabled people. Society treats disabled people in a different way as pity, feelings of sympathy, isolated or rejected. People often maintain social distance and consider disabled as outsiders. Many disable people feel discriminated at various levels in the family as well as in the community. Sometimes their families strongly supported them and even sometimes they might be over-protected by the family members. At the same time they might be rejected and left out from normal community life because of society humiliation and discrimination. In that conditions disabled people have very restricted and limited opportunities and choices for their own development. Objectives: The main focus of the study to find out how community based rehabilitation programme strategies will be effective to remove barriers in all stages and createmultiple opportunities and choices for the betterment of life of disabled people. In this backdrop the paper aims to find out how CBR helpful to provide and strengthentheir mental and physical abilities so they can understand themselves as normal human being in the society. Methodology: The research paper envisioned to find out the exercise of CBR service facility to PWDs, regulate whether differently abled have access to community based rehabilitation facilities, and recognize the CBR implementation challenges from the opinion ofcaregiversand parents, service providers. This whole paper is based on theoretical and literary approach. Data is collected from secondary sources such as books, research papers, journals, and reports etc.