Rehabilitate 70 children handicap cerebral motor Burundi
URL: rehabilitate-70-kids-with-handicap-cerebral-motor au Burundi
Executive Summary
70 villagers rehabilitate children in Burundi, 1 to 10 years, hidden and stigmatized by their parents and by their neighbors because these children are suffering from the cerebral motor (bi-tetraplegic, tetraplegic or quadriplegic quad) allows to reassure their lives present and future themselves, schooling and work. The rehabilitated children become witnesses for community and administrative advocacy for the prevention of the cerebral motor, non stigma and medical care to all children with cerebral motor in remote villages and informed about causes and cure or improvement of the cerebral motor disabilities.
Donation option
- $ 10 moves a 1 child to 70 children with cerebral motor to specialized rehabilitation center: 70 disabled children cerebral motor x $ 10 x 2 = $ 1,400
- $ 20 for the medical consultation to define the type of rehabilitation needed: 70 disabled children cerebral motor x $ 20 x 2 = $ 2,800
- $ 20 per session rehabilitation and rehabilitate 1 child to 70 children: (70 children x $ 20 x 24 = 33600 sessions).
- $ 40 to 70 can provide toparents of handicapped children of cerebral motor for communication with the family during the rehabilitation sessions: (70 x $ 40 disabled children = $ 2800)
- $ 50 one can provide nutritious meals to 70 children with disabilities cerebral motor rehabilitation for 24 sessions: (70 disabled children x $ 50 = $ 3,500
- $ 55 provides to buy medicine for 70 handicapped children using during the rehabilitation sessions: (70 handicapped children x $ 55 = $ 3,850)
- TOTAL: $ 47,950
Problem issue
In Burundi, many children born with cerebral motor disability. This handicap can be bi-quadriplegic, tetraplegic or quadriplegic (which is the result of brain damage occurring before or around birth often caused by a stroke). This handicap hits especially the children from the villagers because the majority of the people is under informed about this type of disability of their children. Parents of children who are surfing of this disability cerebral motor think that their family is cursed by God or it is affected by the wichcraft. So they prefer to hide these child victims of cerebral motor disability and away from the other person and no one can see them and can to rescue advocating on their behalf or by the treatment. These children with cerebral motor disabilities hidden and stigmatized grow and are without strength, they do not move themselves, they can not feed themselves, they can not do their basic needs by themselves, and they have to wait for someone that helps at all, if not, these disabled children accomplish their needs in their place. These children's cerebral motor will never become independent if they are not treated in specialized centers from birth. Handicap cerebral motor is curable or can be improved once the child is cared for at the age of 1 year to 10 years. The child with cerebral motor disability rehabilitated became autonomous in its movements, he can go to school, to work, in short, he can do everything a normal child can do.
How will this solve the problem?
The project raises awareness of all the neighboring provinces of Gitega, Karusi, Rutana, Ruyigi, Ngozi and Muramvya this cerebral motor disability through radio broadcasts through community radio stations 3 Gitega to encourage parents of children with cerebral motor to break their mentality, to hide their disabled children and stigmatizing to be treated by rehabilitating their cerebral palsy.
After sensitization, our association will then proceed to register children with cerebral palsy, and then heals by rehabilitating cerebral motor disabilities of these children to specialized centers for a period of 3 months, twice week.
Potential Long Term Impact
Rehabilitation of 70 disabled children cerebral palsy helps to be autonomous in their movement, education, work, and community outreach and administrative 10,000 people through the radio for the prevention, stigma and not continuous medical care.
Message Project
With this draft rehabilitation, I am no longer stigmatized, I stand and I'm going to school like all children without physical disabilities. I will also advocate for the rehabilitation of all the villages of children with cerebral palsy.