Off to Zambia

Peter Fitzmaurice (Assistant), Andrew Walters (Carpenter) and Jean Westmacott (Cerebral Palsy Africa Equipment trainer) are leaving today.

This is thanks to Vodafone Foundation who gave Jean a World of Difference award to work for Cerebral Palsy Africa for a year. Her work involves training in Africa and training more people here to be able to help others make Assistive Cardboard Equipment for children with cerebral palsy. See http://www.vodafone.com/world_of_difference/uk_winners/jean.html

Peter and Jean - standing board under construction

Joy, our volunteer artist who has done loads of Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT), will be joining us on the 13th June.

A bird-chair is emerging

We have been preparing to help two organizations in the Copperbelt.

1. Wukwashi wa Nzambi - doing community-based rehabilitation for children living with disability - around Kitwe and in Chingola
2. Catholic Diocese of Ndola CBR - doing community-based rehabilitation for children and adults living with disability - in and around Ndola

As part of their work to help people with disabilities they are going to be making assistive cardboard equipment. Both organisations have organised workshop places and we will be helping with training in designs and hands-on work to get it all going.

They will have to measure children, work with the physiotherapists on the positioning and then construct the bench, chair or standing frames. So to help we have made up some patterns and Kennett has design special measuring boards to simply the cutting of standing boards. He has also constructed special boxes for the kit and done endless APT sticking such as making the wedge below.

Meanwhile Andrew did a sponsored walk to Brighton.

Thank you to everyone who helped with sponsorship and thanks to Gail his 'Co-ordinating' wife.

Setting off

Thank you for all support from work, friends, family

and the Church of the Good Shepherd, Four Marks.