Tajikistan
Meeting Umed encouraged us in our decision to include lessons in skills learning in our disability project for this year and hopefully to continue this into the next.
Hope Starts in the Small Things
Most importantly, hope is present for Hamidjon because he has a loving mother, who, through our project, is able to experience support and acceptance, receive counselling and process her grief.
New Found Capacity
Her confidence has grown immensely, and with this growth, she has begun to teach and train other mothers in a way that contributes to making Operation Mercy’s work in Isfara truly sustainable.
I love my work!
“I love speaking to new mothers that come in for the first time and giving them advice and counselling them. I love seeing the change that this brings into a family.”
Help for Hakim
In the coming months Operation Mercy through the local NGO will support the family with food packages and medication.
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.”
Afghan Refugee Relief
Operation Mercy’s local partners are continuing to support communities in Tajikistan during the COVID 19 crisis. One team is focusing on the needs of Afghan refugees in the country.
Simple Consultations are a Huge Help
As part of our Afghan Refugee Relief project, our partner organization is offering medical consultations through an expatriate doctor.
Lots of Learning
Sitora is a 5-year girl with Down Syndrome. She is the third child in the family and when her mother does housework, Sitora tries to imitate her activities.
Hope for Afghan Students
Our hope is that through providing physical necessities as well as psychological, social and academic support; hope, capacity and community will be restored and built in Afghan students in Tajikistan!
I Am Not Confident
Meeting Umed encouraged us in our decision to include lessons in skills learning in our disability project for this year and hopefully to continue this into the next.
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.
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.
Changing the System
A gentleman from the Ministry of Health approaches the podium at the 1st National CBR Conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Six years ago we had a “friendship building experience,” in the form of a major argument over priorities for children with disabilities and where they live.
Wheelchair Brings Joy!
Watch how our Operation Mercy project: “Mobility For All” in Tajikistan provided a wheelchair for a little girl with Cerebral Palsy.
And meet the dedicated technicians who make it all possible.
Studying in Community Gives Self-confidence
At the closing celebration, he declared, “For four years after completing grade 9 I didn’t study and was not in a class with others. Studying and being together with the community gave me a lot of self-confidence!”
New Wheels, New Opportunities
Unable to walk, Akram*, 20, used to sit at home in Tajikistan and repair shoes for neighbours who brought them to his house. He dreamed of expanding his business and opening a small shoe repair booth in the centre of the bazaar but lacked a way to get to and from the bazaar,
Women’s Health Lessons Making an Impact
Shakhnoza was worried. Her 14-month old child was very thin and had become sick very quickly…
Partnership for Progress
Karima has improved in her self-care skills and every day she learns something new and makes visible progress!
How insulin is made
We have distributed DVDs including this video about “How insulin is made” and many more resources for patients and doctors to more than twenty endocrinologists so that they can use them to increase their own knowledge and educate their patients.
Hope through ability
The community based rehabilitation project in Rudaki provides early intervention and rehabilitation for children with disabilities and support for their parents.