Community Based Rehabilitation

In rural areas, disability is considered as the result of the sin of the person or the family members; also it is considered as individual difficulties and it is family’s responsibilities to take care of them. Communities do not aware of the rights of people with disability and their responsibility to plan for inclusive development. Generally rehabilitation services are not widely available in our country; caregivers and the community do not aware of the limited rehabilitation facilities available. Added to that generalized poverty and inaccessibility make them difficult to access the services. So in most  of the rural places, people with disability living in in –human conditions. Provided with appropriate rehabilitation services and accessibility, people with disability can be the productive and contributing members of the society.

The key iterventions of the program are

Raising awareness in the community, local government and service providers about the

rights of people with disability.

Raising awareness among people with disability and their caregivers about their rights.

Capacity building of People with disability by forming self-help groups and sangas.

Resource mapping of the community in terms of health, education and livelihood

opportunities.

Training community workers to be a resource person to work with disability.

Guidance for community workers in facilitating rehabilitation services for people with

disability.

Facilitate early education and inclusive education of children with disability.

Facilitate appropriate livelihood for adult with disability.

Through our Community Based Rehabilitation, we have reached numerous people and still continue to do so. The reason for deactivitation is that we have corporate funding now for this project, this year and hence the crowd funding can be routed to a more needy project!