• Impart education across fields of study
• Provide support, care, advice and social opportunities to preserve dignity and enhance independence and quality of life.
• Provide access to Braille aids and appliances
• Provide access to a library for the visually challenged
• Promote awareness and support, including advocacy measures to support policy making at the Governance level
• Support overseas research to advance in the field of vision health
• Provide financial assistance in case of need
• Provide affordable accommodation in case of need
• Co-operate with social bodies interested in helping and preventing blindness and/or assisting the visually impaired persons to give the best possible output

To begin with, VRP conducted Basic Rehabilitation Course for the visually challenged covering life skills and mobility and also initiated courses for employment officers and orientation & mobility instructors, which in due course were withdrawn. Soon after however, appreciating the wide range of training requirements of its clients VRP initiated a number of need-based courses as well as vocational training courses in physiotherapy and acupressure & massage.

The course makes a blind person realize the Three A’s – Accept blindness, Adjust to blindness and Achieve despite being blind. This cost-free training course is conducted twice a year. Each batch is of 3½-month duration. The 30 trainees admitted per batch are given intensive training to develop skills in Activities of Daily Living which covers: Self-care (brushing, bathing, grooming, eating, etc.); Orientation & Mobility (safe indoor and outdoor travel techniques using the White Cane); Home Management (sweeping, making bed, simple mending, cooking, ironing, sewing, identifying currency and so on); Communication (Braille reading and writing; social etiquette etc.

Confidence-building to lead a normal and productive life takes place through activities like physical training, participation in sporting and cultural activities, visits to public spaces, familiarization with public transport etc. Trainees are also provided vocational guidance, exposure to work avenues open to them and assistance in identifying occupation that suits them most. They are given a small monthly stipend.

VRP has the capacity to provide lodge and board facility to around 22 trainees.

Activity for Adolescent: This preparatory course gears up for adult life, youth in transition age – primarily those who appear for secondary/higher secondary exams. Trainees are introduced to community-based experiences; given career guidance through lectures; and trained in disability-specific skills, physical fitness and basics of day-to-day chores. The program helps them recognize and manage the physical, psychological and emotional changes they go through during this transitional phase, and gives them the confidence to pursue further education.

Covers trades like making candle/incense sticks (agarbattis), liquid soap/phenyl, garlands/torans (door-hangings), envelopes, popcorn, chocolates and ubtans (face and body packs) etc., besides training in sewing, servicing gas-stove, and other manual jobs as well. Students undergo intensive training in at least three trades. These trades when pursued as a vocation can provide a livelihood. Demonstrations on marketing skills are also organized.

This full-time course of 1½ month duration has been exclusively designed for all-round development of visually challenged women who are 18 and older. The Course covers orientation & mobility; Braille and communication skills; Yoga and recreation; domestic science with special emphasis on food preparation, nutrition, child care; grooming and personality development – including social etiquette; self-defense etc. Trainees are also counseled and taught vocational trades. Those from out of Mumbai are provided residential facility. The training renders these women confident enough to lead near-normal life.