EDNC 2025 Local Organising Committee Constituted

The Engage Disability Hubs in the location of each National Conference become the host teams for each of the NCs. A meeting with some of the key people in the Bangalore hub took place on 28 August 2025 at Palaana Bhavan, Bengaluru.

The meeting was put together by the Hub Coordinator Mr Vijay Kant and key people both from the Disability Commission of the Archdiocese of Bangalore and the CSI Karnataka Central Diocese, as well as from organisations working in disability in Bengaluru came together.

National Coordinator, Jessica Richard and Conference Coordinator Jacob Prakash discussed with the members at the meeting the overview of the work involved for the upcoming National Conference in November 2025 at St John’s Medical college. The programmatic needs and resource mobilisation needs were highlighted by Jessica and the logistic requirements were highlighted by Jacob. The members present provided valuable suggestions for the various items of need requiring both human resources and logistic ideas.

The meeting also finalised a smaller team of members drawn from the hub to constitute the Local Organising Committee. Fr. Antic Arnold, Mr Jacob Swamynathan, Mr David Istacky, and Rev Solomon Paul were to be the leads for this Committee. Other members to constitute this committee were Ms. Farilene Soji, Mr. Jesse Francis, Ms. Nissi, Ms. Merly Thomas, Sr. Madhuja, Fr. Lazer, Fr George Kannanthanam, Mr Tony Barrey and Shilpa Barrey, and Rev. Immanuel Nehemiah.

Engage Disability is thankful to the Bangalore hub for taking on this responsibility to provide leadership as the Local Organising Committee to host the National Conference 2025.

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