10,000 Disabled Persons on the go..wow!
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Summary
500 trained volunteers in 20 of the poorest municipalities provide 10,000 handicapped persons with basic rehabilitation services to make them optimally self-reliant.
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Received $2,419 from 37 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project brings rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities in the places where they live, aiming at their optimal self-reliance and social integration. We plan to train an average of 25 volunteers each for 20 of the most depressed municipalities in the region in the basic techniques of physical rehabilitation and of referrals for specialized medical interventions like surgeries for cleft, cataract and orthopedic deformities.
Activities
If we have 25 trained community based rehabilitation volunteers in each of the 20 targeted municipalities some 10,000 persons with disabilities will receive the rehabilitation services which they don't receive now.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,419
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $17,581
Total Funding Goal: $20,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
10,000 PWDs will have a more comfortable existence and be optimally self-reliant, with their deformities corrected, provided with basic life skills, their basic self confidence boosted, and fully integrated in their local communities.
Project Message
Our faith is perhaps not strong enought to make you walk but we can make you ride and see places.
- Gerard R. Rikken, Executive Director of Loving Presence Foundation
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 04, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 25, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
THE NEW HOPE FOR THE DULANAS FAMILY
By JENYVEVE - MS., August 04, 2008 06:16 PM
“A New Hope for the Dulanas Family”
The family is a native from the City of Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte. Accordingly, a name Dulanas was one of the well-known and well-off people in the city. The Dulanas Family owned most of the land area of the City. Most of them are business holders, living in concrete and big houses while enjoying luxurious life.
Unfortunately, this fame and fortune is far from the reality for the family of Mr. and Mrs. Josefina and Pablo Dulanas III. Mr. Dulanas was once a laborer in a gold mining industry. As of now, he worked as a casual employee and a laborer in the Department Public Work and Highways Office. While his wife stays at home to take care the needs of their children. The couple was blessed with 6 children. Nevertheless, the family also lived in a big and concrete ancient house but is only allowed to occupy the vacant space under the stairway, which is a bodega. To separate them from the trash they used sacks and waste cartons as their wall. Every thing around them is dirty and dusty which is not good and not conducive to the health of their children.
Couple said that the poverty and their living condition was never been a big issue for them. As long as their children are eating thrice a day, still have dresses to wear and are going to school, since they are still elementary, they are already satisfied. But what baffled their mind and the thing that troubled them much are the conditions of their first 3 children who suffered from cerebral palsy, Glory Grace 18, Love Joy 15 and Mark Jhapet 11. Cerebral Palsy or Motor Disability, as I defined in layman’s term, is caused by an injury to the premature brain of an individual, during before and after delivery. The condition is for lifetime but can still be rehabilitated through early PT Management intervention and providing proper devices for early correction of their body posture. These children never had the chance to undergo physical rehabilitation. Now that they are already getting older and heavier, parents preferred to place them inside the room and watched their black and white T.V. They never had the chance to see school and everything outside their house.
When we first visit the family, they were very hospitable and accommodating. The 3 children despite of their awkward postures and their distorted speeches they were able to ask us on our purpose. When we explained about the wheelchair the 3 were very happy but the parents were quite hesitant of the assistance. They said, there were already lots of NGOs, GOs and Foreigners visited them and took pictures on their children but all of them just gave them false hope. Still they were kind enough to allow us to take pictures, assessed and measured the 3 children. But for them, we were also one of the many NGOs promising them to help their children.
September 13, 2007 the entire family was very surprise of our next visit, and was more surprise when we brought inside the house huge bags. When children learned that it’s their wheelchairs, they were very happy. Jhapet was already asking his mother to bring him to church this Sunday, while Love Joy was challenging Jhapet to be the first one to go inside the church. Unfortunately, Glory Grace was no longer with them. Their grandmother brought her to Manila and offered to take care of the child. Assembling the parts of the device and the fitting took us whole day before it was finally given to the children. The mother was pushing Jhapet while the father was pushing the wheelchair of Love Joy. The 2 kids were very happy. They kept smiling and waving good byes to their neighbors and little sisters. We saw tears on the eyes of the parents. Once upon a time wheelchair was just an ultimate dream and their prayers but now everything came true.
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