community programme organisation

Community programme follows the World Health Organisation's guidelines on community based rehabilitation:

Health

The health programme includes prevention and early detection. CCBRT provides rehabilitation through home visits, support units and day care centres. Appropriate devices are provided for those who do not require medical intervention. Others are referred to CCBRT Disability Hospital or a municipal hospital for medical care when necessary.

Education

The goal of the education programme is to ensure that people with disabilities access the right to inclusive education and advises parents to send their children to a local school or other schools as appropriate. The programme also provides appropriate assistive devices. Parents and teachers of deaf children receive training in sign language and related issues. Teachers are trained on different disabilities and how to handle a child with physical disability when at school.

Livelihood

The livelihood programme offers opportunities for economic empowerment to people with disabilities. The programme has initiated two day care centres for children with disabilities. When the children are at the centre, mothers take part in income generating activities or find employment.

CCBRT is also the local partner in a day care centre project funded by the EU and led by Italian NGO CEFA. Vocational training and economic empowerment opportunities are offered to people with disabilities and their caregivers whilst children with disabilities are looked after.

CCBRT joined forces with a Tanzanian recruitment firm early in 2008 with the long term aim of placing 500 people with disabilities, HIV/AIDS and their caregivers in jobs each year. This branch of Radar – Radar Development - has a staffed office on CCBRT’s premises.

Empowerment

Social mobilisation focuses on the involvement of those with disabilities in decision making processes. People with disabilities are encouraged to attend community meetings and to seek their rights through D.P.Os. This work is carried out through support units and during training sessions.

Social Inclusion

Social workers advise the parents of children with disabilities, and blind adults, on a variety of social issues. Children with disabilities are involved in sports activities, such as sports days, to integrate them into their communities.