A word about Founder Trustees:
Samarthyam’s founder trustees are persons with Muscular Dystrophy (assisted wheel chair users) have been trained on Promotion of Accessible Tourism at Bali (Indonesia), 2000; Non-Handicapping Environment for Disabled People by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), 2002 & Asia Pacific Development Centre on Disability (APCD), Bangkok (Thailand) 2004.

International Representation:

2011, Resource Persons and organizer of “Access for All” workshop, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2010, Chair and Speaker at 12th International Conference on Transport & Mobility for Elderly and the Disabled, June, Hong Kong
2009, Master Resource person and Access Consultant for framing of Universal Design Guidelines for Refugee Camps and villages, Bangladesh
2008, Resource Persons and organizer of “Access for All” workshop, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2007, Chair and Speaker at 11th International Conference on Transport & Mobility for Elderly and the Disabled, June, Montreal, Canada
2006, Resource persons at International Workshop on Implementing Accessibility Regulations, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2006, Panelist at the 2nd International Conference for Universal Design Kyoto, Japan.
2006, Guest Lecturer at Municipal Lifelong Learning Centre, Osaka, Japan.
2004, Speakers at 10th International Conference on Transport & Mobility for Elderly and the Disabled, Hamamatsu, Japan.
2002, Resource Persons at UNESCAP training on Non-Handicapping Environment for Disabled People at Bangkok, Thailand.