I Want a Hug
Ed EppJune 30, 2016No commentsFrom the Field, General
children, Community Based Rehabilitation, Disabilities, Disability, healing hugs, hope, Tanzania
A cbm Canada program officer recently returned from Tanzania. She reported that a recent addition to therapy for non-verbal children was a ‘communications board’. Along with the care-giver, community worker who knows the child, a communications “need list” is designed. These include a picture of food, toilet, and other every day needs. Each board is designed, however, with...
Read moreThe heroes of almost every story I see in Africa are the mothers or grandmothers
plamNovember 11, 2011No commentsFrom the Field
Community Based Rehabilitation, Disabilities, Epilepsy, Grandmothers, mental disabiity, Mothers
We had another great day visiting another CBR program about 100 km outside of Addis. After a briefing on the scope of their work our group divided up to visit some homes. I want to give just one story of one of the clients we visited. We visited one home where we had to walk through the mud to...
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