People with disabilities can achieve anything!

People with disabilities can achieve anything!

She met with a severe car accident when she was 13…..

Remembering the incident that changed her life is of course not easy for her, yet her voice gleams with positivity as she says in the same breath:

‘People with disabilities can achieve anything!’

On the path to make her belief and statement true, Pratishtha Deveshwar had been a high ranker in academics, and convinced her family that she could stay all by herself in Delhi, after being home schooled in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. She applied to LSR, and got admission! That changed her life. And she was soon spotted on a wheelchair on Delhi roads, with shopping bags hanging on either sides.The word impossible was never in her dictionary! She started living by herself — did grocery shopping, paid bills and even travelled, by herself, almost the whole of the city in the metro train.

This young lady has one more dream to fulfil, and that is to pursue higher studies at Oxford University, UK. She applied to Masters in Public Policy in Oxford and she got through. In fact, she will be the first wheel chair bound Indian to study at Oxford. She intend to study there, come back to India and use her knowledge for the betterment of 26.8 million people with disabilities in India, who urgently need to be empowered.