When a child has cerebral palsy, there are many ways friends and family can help
How can you help? When a child has cerebral palsy, there are many ways friends and family can help. Here are just a few of them: Caring for a child with cerebral palsy can be very tiring for parents. If you can, offer to give parents some time off by helping out in some way. If you are babysitting, make sure parents tell you the child’s usual bedtime routine and try to keep to it. Offer as much friendship and support as you can. Many parents of children with cerebral palsy feel “cut off” at a time when they may need friends and family...
read moreLET’S PUT THE PERSON FIRST, NOT THE DISABILITY!
Do the words used to describe you have an impact on your life? You bet! Contrary to the age-old “sticks and stones” lesson we learned as children, words do matter! For too long, people who happen to have conditions we call “disabilities” have been subjected to devaluation, marginalization, prejudice, and more. And the first way to devalue someone is through language, by using words or labels to identify a person/group as “less-than,” as “the others—not like us,” and so forth. Once a...
read moreIndependence day 2012
Happy independence day Maldives. It’s a good day to think about how dependent Persons with disAbilities are. How are the state decisions impacting PwD’s and their livelihoods? Are they independent? Are they able to move freely as others? How accessible are our scattered communities? Let us move forward with this year’s Independence day depending on others even to celebrate it. -Yafaau’s Daddy on Accessibility
read moreInspiring stories
Introduction to the books Handicap International(Belgium) shared a series of inspiring stories of Maldivian children and adults with disAbilities. With each story we can see part of a new world, and meet a person with a different experience of life. Through the stories we are privileged to gain an insight into what each person values, and what they aspire to. We realize that each character has another aspect to his or her life as well – either a hearing, visual, intellectual, mental or physical impairment. But as we read, we understood...
read moreControlled medicines and Aasandha
Controlled medicines are very difficult to acquire all the time. And the new Universal Health Insurance Scheme(Aasandha) requires us to be a bit more careful in planning to get these drugs via Aasandha. Due to Yafaau‘s epilepsy, he has to take Clonazepam(Rivotril) 0.5mg 1/2 tab twice daily and has been prescribed from his first year on-wards. It has always been a challenge at times to get these medication because it is a Controlled Drug and will not be sold without a special prescription(Blue Prescription). Unlike normal Green ones...
read moreMainstreaming disAbility in the development
It’s been couple of years since Maldives have been marking the International Day for Persons with disAbilities. As we mark yet another year for PWD’s there are lots of commitments yet to be looked upon. Mainstreaming disAbility has been there since the UN first started the UN Enable movement and Maldives has never touched on implementing it. Under this year’s main theme of IDPD 2011, “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disAbilites in development”, are some sub-themes which are: 1....
read moreSpecial Sport Festival 2011
Care Society in association with Dhiraagu is conducting a “Special Sports Festival” on 1st October 2011 solely for the Children/Persons with Disabilities. The purpose of this Festival would be to provide opportunity for children and adults with disabilities in various institutions to participate in a sports event. This will also create a platform for further collaboration among institutions and moreover provide a unique opportunity for persons with disabilities. This will serve as an opportunity for Care Society to advocate for the persons...
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Rose Siggins Half Body, Whole Life
Lately I have seen photos and mentions of the woman with Half body(Rose Siggins) by some of my friends and thought of writing a post on such Inspirational People. Without further due, here’s an excellent description by the woman herself written italicized and some photos I compiled from the internet. Rosemarie (Rose) Siggins The Woman with Half a Body – by Rosemarie (Rose) Siggins Rosemarie Homan was born with a rare genetic disorder known as ‘Sacral Agenesis’, I had severely deformed legs with feet pointing in opposite...
read moreTelecom Policy 2006 – 2010: Reasonable communication means for Persons with disAbilities in Maldives?
What has been done to establish a reasonable communication means for Persons with disAbilities in Maldives? I was going through the Telecom Policy 2006 – 2010 and its objective to Establish reasonable communication means for People with disAbilities under Infrastructure Development caught my attention. It says; Objective 2.7: Establish reasonable communication means for people with special needs (PWD’s) Telecomunication being considered as a basic right of the people, it is necessary that all citizens including people...
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