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| Promoting appropriate assistive devices, promoting South-to-South exchange |
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| Soikat leads PFKAFO workshop assessment |
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In a world of disabling barriers, mobility is important to gain access to education, work, social contact and many other facets of life taken for granted by non disabled people. In much of the world, poverty means that services, aids and appliances for disabled people are in very short supply. And while polio has nearly been eradicated, it remains the case that children and adults with polio will require assistance for their lifetime.
DDP (then known as the Jaipur Limb Campaign) was an active contributor to the UK campaign to ban landmines. The widespread use of landmines in civil wars and conflicts has resulted in many thousands of amputees who will need rehabilitation services for as long as they live.
Our aim is to promote assistive devices and physical rehabilitation that is sustainable and appropriate and aim at holistic programmes that include rehabilitation as an essential part of other programme such as inclusive education for disabled children or employment opportunities for disabled women.
In partnership with the Mozambican Red Cross Society we set up Centro Ortopédico Jaipur (COJ) a rehabilitation workshop providing services for landmine survivors. COJ is located in Gaza province and is used by many amputees and people with other mobility related disabilities who live in Gaza and neighbouring provinces.
We supported the building and running of state-of-the-art training and rehabilitation centre with Mobility India’s Rehabilitation, Research and Training Centre based in Bangalore. A number of programmes include a Jaipur Foot Production Unit as part of our work to promote appropriate prosthetic technology suitable to conditions in developing world, accessible taxi service, urban and rural CBR programmes which include rehabilitation services for children with disabilities and support for the partners training programme where technicians from India and other countries are sponsored to do orthotics, prosthetics and rehabilitation therapy courses. Trainees have come from DDP partner countries from as far away as Angola, Mozambique and Ethiopia. Sponsorship of trainees ongoing and leading to towards developing new partnerships and programmes in Indian subcontinent and Africa, training built into CBR programmes. more>> |
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