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Mumbai: The champions of Chembur
Updated On: 25 June, 2023 07:41 AM IST | Mumbai | Christalle Fernandes
As a 20-year-old student wins gold at the Special Olympics, this school in Chembur looks back fondly on its journey, and all the challenges it has overcome
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At the Sulabha School for Special Education and Research, students are taught through interactive learning, games and visual stimuli
The mood at the Sulabha School for Special Education and Research can only be described as jubilant. Students and teachers alike can hardly wait to see the newest addition to the gleaming gold trophies propped up in the corner of the staff room—a gold medal won by 20-year-old Prasiddhi Kamble at the Special Olympics currently underway in Berlin. Kamble won the medal for the 25 metre freestyle swim in the individual category on June 21. The school is all the more proud of the fact that India has already crossed the 50-tally medal mark so far, with winners across categories like athletics, cycling, powerlifting, roller-skating, and swimming.
The 40-year-old school housed in a red brick building has a history as colourful as the charts on the walls of its classrooms. Furniture is bare minimum here; the students are encouraged to move around, keeping their bodies as free as their spirits should be. The school that started in a small room in the Sarvodaya Hospital in Ghatkopar in 1979, with only one teacher and five students, has now become a safe space for special children, including those on the autism spectrum and those with learning disabilities.
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