Dyslexia, popularized by Bollywood since Taare Zameen Par, has been a major learning difficulty for a long time. With increasing awareness, people are finally accepting dyslexia as a condition. Until very recently, any symptoms of dyslexia were brushed off as a child not being serious enough with her/his studies. Crowdfunding can help spread awareness about dyslexia and treat it.
A dyslexic child will show more than average intelligence, would be mostly bright but will have difficulty in reading and understanding numbers and letters. They might feel dizzy when asked to confront letters. They might even feel that the letters are dancing. They might have heightened hearing, i.e. they might hear things that others will just brush off as white noise. They will get distracted by these sounds. Dyslexia when undiagnosed can ruin a child’s self esteem. Parents might be the first abusers in such cases along with teachers. Both might consider the child “dumb”, “stupid” and “useless”.
One of the major problems with tackling dyslexia is that awareness of dyslexia still remains a very upper to middle class thing. People from the poorer classes will hardly ever know about dyslexia and even when they do know they might be unable to do anything about it. Crowdfunding comes of help here. NGOs who work in this field can work with schools to raise awareness about dyslexia. To do this requires money. More than that, treating diagnosed cases of dyslexia requires money too. Crowdfunding platforms like Impact Guru have raised 650 crores of money in NGO crowdfunding and others. If we can use this process to the greatest utility, much can be done about raising dyslexia awareness across classes and treating dyslexic children. We at Impact Guru have Campaign Managers for every project. One of our managers will get in touch with you as soon as you start a fundraiser. We have a reach of over 15 countries and as you post your fundraiser on social media and we help you spread it all over the world, money will start pouring in. All of this will be done online so you do not have to go through any offline hassle trying to get loans!
If your child is dyslexic, you can start a fundraiser on Impact Guru. All you need to do is to find the option on their main menu page. Once you have done it, write down the details of your condition. Similarly, if you are an organization trying to access crowdfunding, you can start a fundraiser. Remember that the fees taken by Impact Guru is more for organizations than for individual people. Before you start your fundraiser, remember to run a campaign on social media, email and personal messages.
The donations you receive on the first 48 hours of your campaign are important and can determine the ultimate effect of your campaign. Impact Guru provides you with a campaign manager who can set targets and help you with the regular day to day activity. Therefore, this becomes a very low-risk, well-developed plan of action for any kind of treatment of dyslexia that you want to provide. Medical crowdfunding and NGO crowdfunding are both very important and this issue comes at the intersection of both.
