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Promoting appropriate assistive devices, promoting South-to-South exchange |
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We collaborated with Mobility India (MI) on research, development and dissemination of mass produced components and accessories for making and fitting of callipers (orthoses) for children and adults with polio. After an interim study by ISPO in India showed that a significant 60%-65% of children and adults with polio can benefit from prefabricated knee ankle foot orthoses (PFKAFOs) we conducted trials to introduce PFKAFO technology in Ethiopia. PFKAFO Technology dissemination continued in Africa. Through FATO conference and networking. HN-ACD and Mobility India, PFKAFO Follow Up Project (FUP), Ethiopia – Orthotics facility built and operational, R & D on feedback, new and improved production and components and dissemination.
In Bangladesh, in partnership with BRAC, DDP supported the establishment of a rehabilitation centre, the BRAC Limb and Brace Centre (BLBC) to provide low cost prostheses and orthoses in a much needed addition to scarce orthopaedic rehabilitation services in Bangladesh.
We have supported a number of small community based organisations to enhance their rehabilitation services through refurbishment of their premises and better technical training for their staff. These include THFI, BIRD, Prerana, Green Pastures Hospital, DRF etc.
DDP is also supporting a unique partnership with RAWWD – rehabilitation and aids workshop by women with disabilities to enhance their productivity, opportunities for income and training.
A new initiative and concern for DDP has come about as a result of our long association in Mozambique with disabled people and their organisations is DDP’s current research project exploring the links between disability and HIV AIDS. The report will be completed by December 2007.
Following a year long research project getting to know other Lusophone (Portuguese speaking) countries in Africa and the situation of disabled people in these countries besides Mozambique and Angola we know that rehabilitation services in Sao Tome and Principe, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde are wholly inadequate - programme development as part of DDP’s Lusophone strategy.
Kiran Foundation, Varanasi, India – Rehabilitation outreach programme for fundraising. In a new partnership with Kiran Foundation, in North Eastern India, we are developing a programme to provide outreach rehabilitation services to over 1000 disabled children as part of a strategy for inclusion and mainstreaming of disabled children. <<back |
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