Learning to walk at 18

Udayan is learning to walk at 18 and the sight lights up his mother Shilaja’s face. She has been under severe mental torment ever since her firstborn was born retarded. She lives in Vaninagar colony in the endosulphan disaster hit Enmakaje panchayat of Kasaragod district. Weeks long treatment and physiotherapy has helped him to start walking for the first time in his life.

Shilaja gracefully acknowledges Solidarity Youth Movement’s helping hand and the love and affection of hospital authorities. Aswini 17 and Asokan 12 are Shilaja’s other kids. Udayan is suffering from cerebralplasmy and fits

Udayan’s treatment expenses are met by Solidarity Youth Movement as part of its Endosalphan rehabilitation project. Projects worth 50 lakhs are being  implemented in five disaster hit panchayats. Already 40 lakhs has been spend.