Project Report
| May 12, 2020
Toilet Support
By Tsion Terefe | Director
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Parkinson’s disease /PD/ is a progressive neurological disease that mainly affects movement. Parkinson patients suffering difficulty getting on/off toilet not only patients suffered by this challenge family members also affected because if patients fall increase caregiver burden as well.
In Ethiopia many patients cannot fulfill their need regarding to sanitation facility because of low economic status of Parkinson patients even they cannot cover their medical cost because of this many patients living with inadequate sanitation facilities. To solve this problem Parkinson patient support organization Ethiopia with the financial support from GlobalGiving is implementing modern toilet. Using this kind of toilet caregiver challenge reduce and enhances quality life of patients, this make caregivers and patients happy.
One of the project beneficiaries Halimariam said that “previously at the time of using toilet I found support from my families because unable to stand by myself and my caregiver support me this make me unhappy because I always feeling burden to my caregivers and also my caregivers suffered a lot day and night but after constructed toilet I can use toilet by myself and my caregiver burden reduced this make me and my caregiver happy”
See attached pictures before and after construction
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Jan 14, 2020
Toilet support
By Tsion Terefe | Director
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Parkinson patients support organization –Ethiopia (PPSO-E) constructs a modern raised toilet to its poor Parkinson patient members. Defection is one of a normal process of a human being. For Parkinson patients to defect and urinate, there is a need to have a proper raised toilet. But in our case poor Parkinson patient can not afford to build a proper (raised toilet) . They use ground hole usually sitting on their legs.. To sit on legs to urinate and defect is uncomfortable and painful. It can also become a cause of falling and possible to contaminated with bad smell
To help the poor Parkinson patients, PPSO-E with the fund obtained from GlobalGiving started to construct a modern raised toilet to its members. By constructing a modern raised toilet PPSO-E believes the quality of life for those patients beneficiaries improved significantly.
This is a testimony of Ato Eshetu beneficiaries of a modern of raised toilet how it improved his life. Before I become a Parkinson patient I had no problem in defection. But after being a patient, my legs are weak, most of the time rigid and shaky. But now I had difficulty to of use ground toilet because of my legs, I cant sit longer instead I stand and sit again and again. Most the time I stop before finishing. I also got bad smell as my clothe touch dirty things, There is also a falling problem. In addition I embarrassed of having of bad smell I was not willing to meet people, even my cloth relative. But now with this clean modern raised toilet, my quality of life improves. Now pain in my legs reduces. I use the toilet until comfortably finished. I start visiting my friends and accepting visitors happily. I am back to normal, thanks to PPSO-E. God bless to those helped me.
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Jan 13, 2020
Building raised latrine for parkinson patients
By Tsion Terefe | Director
Parkinson patients support organization –Ethiopia (PPSOE) constructs a modern raised toilet to its poor Parkinson patients members. Defection is one of a normal process of a human being. For Parkinson patients to defect and urinate, there is a need to have a proper raised toilet. But in our case poor Parkinson patient can not afford to build a proper (raised toilet) . They are forced to use ground hole sitting on their legs.. To sit on legs to urinate and defect is uncomfortable and painful. It can also become a source of falling and possible to contaminated with bad smell To help this poor Parkinson patients,
PPSO-E with the fund obtained from GlobalGiving started to construct a modern raised toilet to its members. By constructing a modern raised toilet PPPSO-E believes the quality of life for those patients beneficiaries raised significantly.
This is a testimony of .Ato Eshetu beneficiaries of a modern of raised toilet how it improved his life. Before I become a Parkinson patient I had no problem in defection. But after being a patient, my legs are weak, most of the time rigid and shaky. But now I had difficulty to of use ground toilet because of my legs, I cant sit longer instead I stand and sit again and again. Most the time I stop before finishing. I also got bad smell as my clothe touch dirty things, There is also a falling problem. In addition I embarrassed of having of bad smell I was not willing to meet people, even my cloth relative. But now with this clean modern raised toilet, my quality of life improves. Now pain in my legs reduces. I use the toilet until comfortably finished. I start visiting my friends and accepting visitors happily. I am back to normal thanks to PPSO-E. God bless to those helped me.
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