Friday, 26 June 2009

Zambia - Ndola Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)

Ndola CBR Programme has Centres for people with disabilities in and around Ndola. The CBR workers do therapy activities for children and also oversee and encourage adults with intellectual disabilities in vocational work. Some of the Volunteers joined with the Wukwashi wa Nzambi volunteers for 2 days at Ben Doree.
No ladder - no worries!

This week Joy, Peter and Jean have been in Ndola in the De Jong Building in the Centre of the town. Andrew had been busy with John and Richard preparing the workshop space. This involved building another large work table and putting up shelving. Andrew left some of the tools which have been logged and handed over for the maintenance work.


The aim was to help set up the workshop. This involved the physical aspects and importantly practice with real children. 4 were chosen and came to be measured for a piece of equipment. There are different types of cerebral palsy and they were well chosen to help everyone make different variations of equipment according to the needs and sizes of the children.




2 comments:

  1. Hello,

    Nice Post..CBR is doing lots of good work. i did enjoyed your this post. keep posting such post here in future too. thanks for sharing this post here. i did get good information about CBR from here. it would be nice if you can share some information related to electric wheelchairs here in your future posts..

    Thanks,

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