Tema (G/R), Feb. 3, GNA - The Disabled Equipment Sent Overseas (DESO) a United Kingdom-based organisation that collects, recycles and sends disabled equipment to Ghana, has donated wheel chairs to some mothers of children with cerebral palsy.
The wheelchairs, donated to The Special Mothers Project, an advocacy and awareness creation programme on Cerebral Palsy, is to make life a bit easier for the parents.
The Project also serves as a support group for parents of children with Cerebral Palsy.
Ms Mavis Hyde, the Founder of DESO, noted that her organisation collects and recycles disabled equipment that ordinarily would be disposed off and sends them to Ghana to provide persons with disabilities the basic mobility equipment.
She said the wheelchairs were a donation from some families raising children with disabilities in the UK, whose children might have outgrown the equipment.
Members of the Special Mothers Project, mainly from the Volta Region, benefitted from the gesture.
DESO also presented a laptop to Mr Yorm Emilson, an 18-year-old gentleman with cerebral palsy, who has never been to school but is able to write and type with his legs.
Mrs Hannah Awadzi, the Founder and Executive Director of The Special Mothers Project, who received the equipment, expressed gratitude to the DESO and called on government to pay attention to the needs of families raising children with cerebral palsy.
“Elsewhere hospitals will be equipped to provide families with the needed mobility equipment and other necessary support services and systems, in Ghana families bear the total burden of catering for a child with cerebral palsy or disability for that matter,” she said.
Mrs Awadzi said society had a role to play in enhancing the lives of families raising children with cerebral palsy.
GNA
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