HEAT, the cost of cassava flour and getting used to using glutinous, jelly-like paste, the HEAT again and frequent stops for feeding babies, finding the boards delaminating and all of us getting lost in translation!
However having felt things were going too slowly, progress is being made. Chatting has been up on the agenda and the mothers experience lots of difficulties, problems with inaccessible public transport, lack of school facilities and general stigma with the most hurtful being suggestions that their child should be taken to the river (left there). We're hoping that a trouble shared is a trouble halved.
There have had discussions on what types of equipment each needs and it has helped to try out the items made by Paper Furniture Enterprise Volunteers
Using a standing frame as a prone board
Trying out the chair - and the new arrangement of straps coming from under the seat of the chair attached to straps from the back of the chai at pelvis level and attaching toegther helping position the pelvis back and down.
The early birds getting started on their chairs
5 chairs emerging
Destined to become a a knee-block chair
A reclining chair being strapped for a child who has had an operation for spina bifida
Veronica has been helping this week - it is great to have her chatting with the Mums. Here she is making a small model chair and standing frame to take in her bag to show people what she is doing.
The first chair to get a final layer of brown paper
