Dear Amit: There is an organisation called International Agency for Rehabilitation (IAR-India) in Bangalore who are doing small time match making amongst persons with disability and also between able bodied persons and PWDs. I heard there are a lot of stumbling blocks. Though there is a great deal of interest amongst PWD's to start their families, women with disability in particular have problems in deciding their own life partners. They are often controlled by their family who reject their choices and impose their own on them. This is predominantly the case among middle and lower middle class PWD women. The other issue is getting the women their share of the family property which is usually denied to them (even if they marry the groom chosen by their family elders). As for PWD men, almost all of them prefer to marry able bodied women though only a few manage to find a suitable bride for themselves. In such cases, the girls are usually from extremely poor families who agree for the marriage mainly out of economic compulsions. IN my opinion, online match making services are certainly beyond the reach of several middle and lower middle class PWDs of both sexes.
Subramani -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amit Bhatt Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AI] Is marriage portal required for the disabled? Dear friends, Do you consider the fact that getting a life partner for a Visually Impaired person is yet another challenge to be faced? Many people in my network and personally I do think that there should be a dedicated marriage portal for persons with disabilities in order to choose a marriage partner in easy way. There are some sites like bharatmatrimoni.com and shaadi.com where the option is given for persons with disabilities under the link: special cases but various kind of disability is not been classified or defined in a proper manner by the site's officials. Creating a marriage doorway dedicated to persons with disabilities is not an easy task for various technical and non-technical aspects, however, collective efforts by a few people or any NGO can make it happened! I just wanted to know the opinion of the members whether something can be done in this direction. Thanks, Amit Bhatt Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
