Diya’s online training program has ensured that Chaitanya continues to make progress in life skills. Lessons in personal finance included learning to budget his weekly expenses for groceries and monthly expenses for laundry items.

Classes in home maintenance saw him engaged in sorting laundry, ironing and folding clothes, sweeping and mopping, watering plants.

Chaitanya enjoys cooking and baking. So Padma, Life skills Trainer at Diya, ensured that he systematically learnt to make a simple sandwich, cut vegetables, sprout pulses, cook tomato rice, bake butter cookies and try his hand at making a jar of homemade peanut butter. Baking his own birthday cake with a little help from his Mum brought to fore his skills. He also learnt the importance of planning a balanced meal. Identifying the need for proper food storage, sorting cutlery, washing and wiping dishes, cleaning the kitchen area, were other lessons included in the training program.

With parental support and regular interactions with his Trainer, Chaitanya followed a regular exercise schedule, spent his leisure time drawing and painting, went on a virtual tour of the Mysore zoo and met with his friends from Diya on a whatsapp call.