Rehabilitation for 50 Children with Disabilities

Greetings from Nepal! We have raised US $21,261 from 202 donors till now through Global Giving. We want to thank all the donors and well-wishers for supporting us  and we believe that this collaboration will bring greater impact in the lives of Children with Disabilities.

Profit making institutions such as businesses, industries are directed by Nepal Government to spend some of their profits in social events or charity as a corporate social responsibility. Patan CBR has been collaborating with different profit making institutions to organize different events for Children with Disability. Chaudhary Group, invited children and youth with disabilities to one such event. Chaudhary group will feature this event in their magazine. It will also improve brand image.

15 Children and Youth with Disabilities, 5 staffs of Patan CBR and 6 guardians of   YwDs and CwDs visited LG showroom run by Chaudhary Group at Jawalakhel, Patan on December 31, 2018. The show room was decorated nicely. All the children and youth with disabilities as well as the guardians were warmly greeted by staffs and manager of the showroom and served welcome drinks.

In a big LED screen of more than 42 inches, different shows were put on in the request of the children. There were cartoon shows, national anthem and different songs. Children and youth danced to the tunes of the songs. They were very thrilled to see such a big screen and with different shows could be played by just one click. Another good motivational show was shown in which people with disabilities using wheel chair performed daring stunts in swimming pool, in sea and in big ramps. It also featured adult with different types of disabilities performing daring sports and stunts. Children and youth were so motivated to see that disabilities don’t restrict someone from   having adventure.

A big cake was cut and served to all. Children and youth were given carrom board, chess, ludo(Ludo is a strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die). They played to their heart content. Later lunch was served to all. Warm cap and muffler were distributed to children and youth   with disability. Children had lot of entertainment in the event. They were so happy and amused .Later the sports material carrom board, ludo and chess were handed over to Patan CBR.

We thank Chaudhary Group  for organizing such a nice event full of entertainment and good food. Children with Disabilities also need to involve in leisure and sports activities as any other normal people but they get very less opportunity for same. Chaudhary Group had provided that opportunity. It also improved participation of children with disabilities in social activities. It will help in their physical and mental development. This helps to sensitize awareness and acceptance of children with disability in the community.

Greetings from Nepal! We have raised US $20,536 from 140 donors till now through GlobalGiving. Your continuous support and good wishes motivate us to strive continuously to bring changes in the life of children with disabilities. We hope with your support we can still do more in future.

This time we are going to report about importance of rehabilitation services like physiotherapy to improve movement and function in children with physical disabilities. Sita (name changed), aged 6 years has spastic cerebral palsy. She is the only daughter of her parents. Her parents are permanent resident of Bhedpu, Dolakha. She was born on June 3, 2012. She has been coming to Patan CBR regularly for four years. Her father works in a workshop where they make statues of metal. The mother already left the studies and stays at home. Their family comes from a poor socio economic background.

When the mother was pregnant with Sita, she was just 15 years old. The child was in inverted position before birth. So doctors had to do a surgery for delivery. After delivery, Sita was admitted in neonatal intensive care unit for 15 days. She was just 1 kg and 600 gm at birth. As she grew up, she was not able to roll from supine to side lying and she could not speak even a word. She used to lie all day. Her physical growth also was not good. Her left hand seem to have deformity and she won't use it at all.So they took her to Kanti Children's Hospital. At the hospital, counselling was done about the condition of child by doctors and parents were advised to do regular physiotherapy. Sita was also taken to another hospital at Banepa where they said she has cerebral palsy and needs regular physiotherapy.

When Sita was 2 years old, they were temporarily residing in Imadole, Lalitpur and one child with disability from their neighborhood used to come to Patan CBR regularly. The mother of the child told about the centre to the parents of Sita. Since then, Sita is coming to Patan CBR regularly. After Sita came to Patan CBR, her condition was assessed by the physiotherapist and a treatment plan was made. The physiotherapist gave stretching, strengthening exercise, exercises to improve neck control and trunk control. Activities were designed to improve balance and coordination in sitting and encourage movement of both hands. She also gets to learn through resource classroom. She is also getting day care facilities.

The physiotherapist says "Sita is very cooperative with the exercise regimes and we try to motivate the child by incorporating play therapy into physiotherapy sessions whenever possible." The aunt is very happy with the improvement in the child and shares" Before my child came to Patan CBR, she could only lie whole day. She couldn't sit or move. Now she can sit from lying position independently. She is able to hold into sitting position for 5 minutes continuously on her own. Her neck control has improved. She can reach to the things in her both sides while sitting with very less support. Now she can eat with spoon by left hand. She uses left hand to catch things. She also draws circles on paper. The right hand has deformity and mostly she won't use it in daily activities. However she uses it for balancing while sitting by weight bearing through both hands. Nowadays, she moves here and there by dragging her buttock. Her speech has improved. The slurred speech is getting clearer and she is able to speak many words. She is active socially and likes to communicate with everybody."

She further says "Patan CBR has brought life changing improvement in my child and I am very happy that in spite of being economically disadvantaged we are supported by services of Patan CBR. We are very hopeful about Sita's future."Patan CBR has been able to continue its services only because of your support. We want to express heartfelt thanks for this to all of you.