Rehabilitation for 50 Children with Disabilities

Greetings from all the Children of Patan CBR and also from Patan CBR Organization. Hope you all are fine and Happy Christmas to all of you.

First of all thank you once again for your donation to Patan CBR Organization. It was really a good support for us. Specially, in such a situation when our previous donor phased out their support to our organization. We are very much excited with your donation that we can at least continue our support to the needy children of our society for one year.

We are successful in getting our organization as a permanent partner and we got a permanent spot on Global giving just because of your great support. You have donated $7,285 in a single month of September, it’s amazing and now it’s our duty to make assure that this amount is spent for the betterment of the children in need. We will be sending regular report of our activities until our project is fully funded.

Now, we are in the “Partner” status among the projects of Global Giving and would like to upgrade to “Superstar” status via “Leader” status. For this, we need at least one donation each month for nine months. Hope we will achieve this status and then we will be eligible to get donations from the big corporate houses of US.

This time I’m reporting about our activities and the developments in our centre from the period of September 2013 to December 2013.

With your support our children got opportunity for the outdoor activities like

• Job fair exhibition for Persons with Disabilities.

All together 18 students from Patan CBR Organization from skill development unit and the School unit got opportunity to take participate in Job fair program in World Trade Centre, Tripureshwor, Kathmandu organized by National Federation for Disabled (NFDN). This greatly helped in exposing our student with disabilities to the outer community also.

• Participation in Bochhia game and Running

4 Children with Disabilities (CwDs) from the centre program of Patan CBR got opportunity to participate in the special game called Bochhia (a game specially designed to play for people with Cerebral Palsy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boccia). Also, Students from CBR got opportunity to participate in running game in the same program.

• Talent show in Kathmandu University School of Management Festival (KAF), International Disable Day program and AGM of Patan CBR Organization

Five students performed their dance in KAF program in Gwarko, Lalitpur. It was wonderful opportunity for them to show the performance. It changed the perception of the young students from the university towards these types of children that they also can do something, if given a chance to them. 5 students performed a dance in the inauguration ceremony of the International Disable Day program by National Federation for the Disabled (NFDN) and in 13^th AGM of Patan CBR, which elected the 11 member executive body.

• Scholarship (transportation, fee, lunch), medicine, physiotherapy, Assistive Device

This time with your help, we were able to provide scholarship to 12 needy Children with Disabilities of the centre and will get scholarship throughout this year commencing from November 2013 to October 2014. The fields of scholarships are:

3 CwDs - Sponsorship sector- Lunch for one year

5CwDs.-sponsorship sector- education/service , lunch and transportation.

Also 4 CwDs will be given medicine distribution for one year Ruchi Khanal, Manoj B.K., Unika Awale, Suraj Lal Shrestha.

• New full time Physiotherapist

With your great support we are planning to hire a new full time physiotherapist for the said time for one year. Before, it was twice a week only. We have already made vacancy announcement for this.  

Links:

• this is a face book page describing the activities of the PCBR