Hubli Hospital for the Handicapped
A voluntary charitable organization, registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act and the Bombay Public Trust Act. It has been committed to the cause of eliminating leprosy for the past 25 years in the areas of Hubli and Dharwar Taluks. The Old Hubli and Anandnagar areas have been taken up since 1994.
The Rehabilitation Training Unit of the Hubli Hospital for the Handicapped (HHH) is a sheltered Training-cum-Production Workshop for the physically handicapped in general (originally started for the Leprosy patients only), producing sundry handicrafts.
The basic objective of this programme is to encourage the cottage industry and to initiate the rehabilitation process from home and through social acceptance. The workers based in the Home Industry visit RTU once in a fortnight or in a month. They carry raw materials and work on the products at their homes. 
Today more than 50 such self-employed workers live within a radius of 200kms around Hubli. About 35 workers living in Hubli town work in the workshops on daily wage or piece rate basis. Every year about 10 handicapped persons pass through our training programme.
Besides this RTU has a full fledged 2-Years Carpentry Course and 1-Year of Apprenticeship for the non-handicapped or only slightly disabled persons. Being a very professional course for furniture making, it consists of ¾ practical work and ¼ class-room teaching ( math, geometry, wood technology, drawing).
Read more about this project : http://www.rtuhubli.org
