Project Report
| Aug 19, 2019
Customized wheelchair for 23 children in Newcastle
By Lucinda Kerschensteiner | Director
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We are thrilled to share that our project in Newcastle, South Africa is kicking off. Thanks to a Rotary International Global Grant, Uhambo is serving children with disabilities in this community with customized wheelchairs, while also providing training to their family and caregivers including workers at the local medical clinics. The attached article captures perfectly the challenges that children with disabilities face and the support that Uhambo provides.
We have many other communities like this that are looking for this level of assistance so their children will have better services. Thanks to donors like you, we can continue to deliver such necessary programs.
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May 14, 2019
Thank you!
By Lucinda Kerschensteiner | Director
Uhambo continues to work with the day care centers in small rural communities around South Africa so they can serve more children with disabilties and provide great service.
Our amazing team on the ground conducts training, clinical assessments and builds connections and networks in these underresourced regions so child care centers, families and the community have what they need to build inclusivity for children with disabilities.
In some of the remotest communities that we work in, we hear the most powerful insights. The Deputy Head Teacher at a school informed us that they needed to make sure that their children with disabilities had height adjustable desks because "it shows them every day that we respect and love them just as much as the other students in their class". Tools for inclusion come in all ways!
Thanks to your support for making opportunities like this available to care centers and communities throughout southern Africa.
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Jan 22, 2019
Support for Emandlelweni
By Lucinda Kerschensteiner | Director
Uhambo has continued working with with the Emadlelweni Care Center in a small rural community in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The center is a good representation of the type of work Uhambo provides in rural and under-resourced regions of southern Africa. Uhambo has been working with parents of children with disabilities in the community to establish a home-based program because the center can be hard to reach.
Uhambo goes for the small wins on a daily basis. For example, a grandparent of a child with a disability in this region shared that her responsibilites at home have increased recently because family members have moved into the household. She recognizes that this is all-consuming and taking away from providing developmental opportunities for her grandchild with a disability. She is now understands the value of the home-based program and has committed to having her grandson attend.
In addition, Uhambo builds connections and network among regions to support child care centers. In this case, Uhambo will link Emandlelweni to another center in the region to help strengthen the center's management skills and provide mentoring of the staff.
Thanks to your suppoprt for making opportunities like this available to care centers and communities throughout southern Africa.
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