Jyotsna Sonowal (Ex-MLA, Sadiya)

– Founder of Prerona Pratibandhi NGO, Dibrugarh, Assam.

It so happened one day on a cold winter evening, a father of a poor child having cerebral palsy, unable to bear the pain of his child took a drastic decision to end the child’s life by throwing the child into the mighty River Brahmaputra as he told that the society use to blame him for having disable child. At that moment a lady, who was giving counselling to the family, when heard about it was shocked at the news. At that moment she took a resolution that in future such type of sad happening should not take place in civilized society. Thus she along with few enthusiastic young educated physical challenged individual took the bold step of setting up a voluntary Organization to work selflessly for the person of disability.That lady was our founding mother Smti. Jyostna Sonowal. Later on many young talented differently able persons came forward to help the organisation to achieve its dream. The Prerona organization has a dream to eradicate the false belief of the society that so called ‘disabled- people’ are burden to the society as well as to their families and consider them as a human-resource in the development of our society as well as our nation. This is how our organization came in to being in 2002.