Rehabilitation for 50 Children with Disabilities

Dear All, Thank you very much for all of you for your great support to Patan CBR Organization through Global Giving (GG). Last time, during "Year End Fundraising Campaign 2016" you gave us some $ 2000. We are grateful for all these support. Now, our target is to become a Superstar partner of the GG. For this, we have to raise $25000. This results in obtaining various “Superstar” facilities provided by GG.

This time, we are happy to report a change in daily living activities of life of a disable child.  Binita (name changed), a child with mentally and physically disable, joined Patan CBR in 20^th October 2014. When she joined us, she has difficulty in lifting her leg and difficult to walk even with the help of walker and her speech was also slurred. She could raise her feet very little. Her upper limb and lower limb both are weak. She was not able to climb stair.

We made plan accordingly, aiming to make lift her leg at 90 degree and to make walk with the help of walker. From November 2014, we started her exercise every day.  It is our great pleasure to let you know that she can lift her leg at 90 degree and can walk with the help of walker. Not only this, she can climb stair if we give support to one hand. Apart from this her socialization skill has also improved remarkably. 

Her father expressed the happiness that CBR day care centre has become increasingly important as more children are found to be improved in their social and daily living activities skills. He also thanked to all the donors of Patan CBR project and to Global Giving for their regular donation to the project. Also, he is happy that her daughter is more active and talkative than before.

Besides this, we organized a counseling program to the families of the children in 5-7 family members, concerned class teachers with an expert in the field of mentally retarded children, for two months. The main aim of the program was to interact about their problem and provide counseling about the behavior problem of the children developed with their age. Many realized that the way they are treating with their children need to be changed.

Thank you very much for your continuous support to our project. Special thanks from the children of Nepal and from our side for those who donated for the December 2015 “Year End fundraising Campaign” in which you gave more than $2000!. We expect continued cooperation from you during the days to come.

Rama (name changed), a child with disability identified as Diplegic Spastic CP, joined Patan CBR 4 years back . When she joined she couldn’t walk without support and couldn’t communicate well. She required bilateral hands support, feet are internally rotated and flexion of toes of bilateral feet while walking.  Yet, she has difficulty to change posture from kneeling to half kneeling .

We started our work with number of goals like,

• To make her able to walk independently by improving her kneeling position from kneeling to half kneeling and then standing.
• Improve gait pattern
• Prevent deformity of bilateral feet
• Make her functionally active

Recent Exercises we provided are

• Stretching of bilateral calf
• Stretching of toes of bilateral foot
• Standing with foot flat with minimal support
• Balance exercises- standing without AFO and reach out activities with minimal support
• Walking independently
• Sit to stand with AFO
• Bridging

Her treatment of Physiotherapy gained momentum especially from two years back when we started to hire a professional physiotherapist with support from donation made by the Global Giving donors. Our Therapist measured the change as

“Now she can walk at least 500 meters independently without support if there are no obstacles. Also her speech has improved and can communicate with others now. Also she can stand independently without support with foot flat on ground. Usually, improvements of these types of children are very slow but her improvement made her parents very happy”. Her mother has to say this:

“I’m very happy that my daughter is on the way to start walking. I know it still takes a lot of time to make her walk but due to the regular physiotherapy work carried out by Patan CBR Organization, it became easier for me to make walk during her school time. Before, I had to carry her with me. Thank you donors of Global Giving of Patan CBR Organization”

Our physiotherapy coordinator has these words “I have been continuously watching her development, I’m quite happy that she improved a lot within a short period of time. I would like to extend thanks to the donors of Global Giving without support  of whom the change was not possible”.

Besides these, 4 children from Patan CBR performed a dance in Convention on the Rights of the Child day in . Also, this time kids from CBR performed dance on the Talent Show program on December 2015 on the occasion of the World Disable Day 2015.