Community Based Rehabilitation
Each Child is Valuable
“I’ve learnt from you that each child is created by God and valuable, and I want to do my best to love and raise her like you would” she said
Training for Local Health Care Professionals
Kangaroo care and skin to skin contact between mother and newborn baby – these are vital practices unheard of in the local Kazakh neonatology hospitals.
Promoting Inclusion
An annual conference for mainstream school teachers and school transition support services helped promote inclusion in local communities.
Amina, a young girl with speech and cognitive delays,
Healing and Growth
During a wedding in a small local village a large fire broke out!
Professionalism Produces Results
Practical training like this empowers therapists to be more professional and to achieve better results in their treatment.
Trust is Built Through Peer Groups
This group of four men became eager to meet each other and friendship was formed.
Partnership for Change
Both organizations continue to work in partnership with the mom and her son and we are seeing positive changes in their lives.
How a Mother’s Life Was Changed
On his own, he began to stand up and to hold himself on the wall.
Never too late to learn!
With the support and help from the staff I learnt how to take care of a child with disability.
Partnership Opens the Way to School
There are many barriers for a child with disability to access education in Tajikistan. Sometimes this barrier is seen in the attitudes of people that think children with disabilities don’t belong in school or should be kept separate from other children.
Hope Stored in His Heart
Most of all we sense that Haitham now has hope stored in his heart that he did not have before.
We Learn Together to Improve Our Lives!
Nazira is a mother of a child with disability, and a new staff of our partner organization. She participated in a training on early intervention for children with hearing and visual impairments.
Opening Doors to Equality
Children with disabilities (CWD) are being given the chance to learn at mainstream schools thanks to one of our partner organisations in Tajikistan.
School accessibility is one of the most important components of providing inclusive education and promotion of the rights of children with disabilities.
The View Changes
After a couple of sessions on the back of a gentle horse, Jamal now rides with a smile on his face.
What a Difference a Chair Can Make!
Adaptive equipment can make a big difference in a child’s life!
Trading Shame for Acceptance
So these women continue on, persevering on behalf of the children and their community, sharing a love and passion that grows warmer with time and over many more cups of hot tea.
Hope Starts in the Small Things
Most importantly, hope is present for Hamidjon because he has a loving mother, who, through our project, is able to experience support and acceptance, receive counselling and process her grief.
Receiving Help, Taking Responsibility
Amantur lives on a small farm in Kyrgyzstan that is quite remote, lying between two villages.
Empowering Mothers
“It is so important that you know your rights!”
Partnerships for Good
He now has a stable home for him and his family and is walking on his “new” foot.