A busy week

This has been another busy week.

We visited Dr Badoe who is a paeditrician and very supportive of the training work of Cerebral Palsy Africa. He sees many children with different disabilities but says that the majority have cerebral palsy. One of the causes he notices is untreacted jaundice in newborn babies. He has been working for the last 2 years to start a child abuse centre. Finally all is ready to help children who are abused. Sadly this includes disabled children.

We have been working on items for the Hospitals

Jean started to make a ride on donkey requested for use at one of the hospitals

Anna painted the tro-tro walker

Richard varnished it (amongst lots of other work) and

we all delivered the tro-tro walker to the hospital

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Then on the 28th January 2011 The Venash-N Enterprise

Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT) workshop was opened

Veronica Hansen- Nortey and her husband

Visitors, including 2 reporters and someone from the Pink radio station crowded in after the prayers, singing and the ribbon was cut

The special cake

A friend made a special cake - there were ribbons everywhere - great celebration

Tools and patterns hanging ready for action. Thanks Jane for helping make the patterns - they are really appreciated.

Veronica with a chair she has made - see removable footrest

Anna in the 'porch' of the container with Veronica's son and family friend

Mandy (who helped start and inclusive school in Accra calledMulti Kids) talking with Veronica. She says she knows how hard it is to get a new project going in Ghana and thinks Veronica and family have done so well

One of the children who comes to Multi Kids is going to have a new chair support.

The footstool is just fine -

thanks to Alan Balcombe and Richard Simmonds from the UK Paper Furniture Social Enterprise - Monday group.

Monica, who works at the school, did the CPA Apt course in 2009 and she is going to make him a seat support - the one in the photo has an intergral foot rest and is too short but they want to keep it as a model.

Ghana is a great place for making furniture from Cardboard - loads of imports, cement comes in strong brown bags - great for final covering of tiems and newspapers are used - unlikely that people will all read online for some time considering the difficulties in staying online.