Metiaburz. Around
4,000 children
with disabilities.
In FY 2025-26,
GRIRR provided regular rehabilitation to 633 of them.
Our impact, FY 2025-26
633
Children in regular rehabilitation
2,932
Households reached through community surveys
135
Assistive devices provided
84
Children supported to get disability certificates
175
Persons with disabilities placed in jobs since 2015
2
Centres: Garden Reach and Howrah
Our next chapter
In December 2025, GRIRR secured around 11,000 sq. ft. of land on a 30-year lease from the Kolkata Port Trust for a larger rehabilitation centre
Who
we are
Garden Reach Institute for the Rehabilitation and Research (GRIRR) provides rehabilitation to children with disabilities.
The NGO is located in Garden Reach in Kolkata (India), a marginalized pocket of the city with a large number of children with disabilities.
It is committed to support children and their families with patience, care and informed therapy leading enhanced confidence, self-reliance and job placement.
Our
Founder
Nazim Khan is the Founder and Secretary of GRIRR. A social worker who has lived with polio himself, he brings a deeply personal understanding of disability to his work. He holds a Master’s in Social Work from Vidyasagar University and has worked with UNICEF, Mobility India, Tomorrow’s Foundation and Samaritan Help Mission before founding GRIRR in 2015
His engagement with Mobility India as a Community Facilitator in Community-Based Rehabilitation raised his profile. Nazim joined Tomorrow’s Foundation, where he implemented innovative mobility rehabilitation programs in Kolkata’s slums. He has been with Howrah-based Samaritan Help Mission, having widened community-based rehabilitation initiatives at the State and national levels.
What makes us
different
We are committed to generate more from less. We were created in an environment of dearth and adversity; this has empowered to seek innovative solutions. We were a simple physiotherapy NGO that extended to the manufacture of calipers. We were a one competence NGO that broadbased its treatment competence. We were an in-NGO treatment location that extended to outpatient services. We work out of only 800 sq ft.; and yet, in FY 2025-26, our team conducted 42,481 physiotherapy, 35,336 special education, 33,655 speech therapy and 31,474 occupational therapy sessions.
Our Services
Screening and assessment: Identifies disabilities and assesses physical and social challenges using specialized tools.
Rehabilitation services: Includes therapy, ADL training, assistive devices (e.g., orthosis), and developmental aids (e.g., standing frames).
Referral and Certification: Refers children to appropriate facilities for testing and provides support for official certifications.
Goal setting: Establishes short
and long-term goals based
on each child’s strengths and
needs through an Individualized
Educational Programme (IEP).
Inclusive education: Offers
specialized learning methods
tailored to children with disabilities, including visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and peer-education approaches.
Special learning methods: Customized for children with
intellectual disabilities, hearing
and visual impairments, autism,
cerebral palsy, and learning
disabilities.