Community Based Rehabilitation
“The joy and the friendship of these two boys, one having a disability and the other not, is one small step… that can hopefully start a giant leap in the direction of building an inclusive community.”
Building Together
A community project in Tajikistan invites peers, children who do not have disabilities, to regularly attend rehabilitation activities six months before school starts.
Winter Visits
“To see long-lasting change in the community, it’s important that we all work together, and the role of the families is very important in order to see inclusion happen…”
New Ideas for Special Children
Julia has new energy now in her especially important work!
Showing a New Way
The staff helped Aygul and her colleagues better understand the effects of CP on the children and ways to increase the children’s mobility.
Caring to Bring About Heart Change
Gulnoza truly brings sustained hope to the people she meets with. By caring for struggling individuals in this society, she is helping bring about the heart change that leads to life transformation.
Increased Quality of Life
As Hala has improved physically, so has her and her family’s emotional state. She is almost able go back to school again!
Equal Opportunities for Education
When asked about the experience, she said: “I was really happy to see that people did not notice just her disability, but they appreciated her ability.”
Child Development and Hope
Her mother speaks about Sumaya’s development with great happiness and joy. She says, “I didn’t expect to see this much development in my daughter, but now I see she can do a lot and will continue to make progress!”
Hope through ability
The community based rehabilitation project in Rudaki provides early intervention and rehabilitation for children with disabilities and support for their parents.
Hope for Children with Disabilities
After months of meetings with local government authorities and other key parties, as well as planning, moving, and training, the day finally arrived – we opened our new office in Isfara…
Sing Hello
“Fahid, it is your turn to sing!” Our volunteers encourage and then, with a little bit of prompting, Fahid begins to sing for us.
Joy in walking
One person whose life has been changed through this project is Neff*.
Therapeutic Friendship
She encouraged the younger girl to keep trying with the horse. Lisa received the encouragement, and her perseverance paid off.
Thanksgiving Fall Party
A Fall party was a great opportunity to show guests just how much the children are learning.
Brave Enough to Celebrate
It is easy to think about development work only in terms of improving physical aspects of a community like economics or health. However, transformational development also means coming along-side the poor to help them spiritually and socially.
Partnership for Change
Both organizations continue to work in partnership with the mom and her son and we are seeing positive changes in their lives.
Hope and Light Shared Through Community Based Rehabilitation
“It takes time to see attitudinal changes,” says Emma, “but we think we have seen changes and as long as we stay and continue working, then we will see more positive changes ahead.”
Quarantine Education – A COVID-19 Story
When nationwide shut-down for Covid-19 hit Kyrgyzstan, Nurgul knew she had to find something for the special education teachers she leads to do. So she turned the work furlough into a massive training time.
Creating a Chair
“Look Mom I can see out the window now!” said little Marat* as he sat in a chair that our CBR team is creating for him especially.
Caring Acceptance Produces Hope
Alisher is a boy with autism, who struggles to interact well with his world, struggles with behaviour and attention and is not able to speak.