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by Michael Duggan and Paul Draper. Like many remote places in the world, the island of Rodrigues, 350 miles NE of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, has a number of poor people with disabilities. The island is only eight miles by four miles in size with a rapidly growing population...
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by Katharina Haller. One of the most important things to consider when supporting people with disabilities, is the need to encourage their family and community to help them find their rightful place in society. Medical help is not enough. The attitudes of family members, friends and the wider community are the engine that drives the whole process. This is an educational process in which the whole society should participate.
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by Susie Hart. In 1997 I spent three months at a L’Arche community in Kampala, Uganda. L’Arche is a Christian organisation that provides a lifelong family environment for people with learning difficulties, living together with one another and their carers. Many of their communities have craft workshops to provide income and useful activities for their members. When I arrived, equipped only with a small bag of candle making equipment, I found to my dismay there was no workshop and I was ...
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by Aisha Yousafzai, Maria Kangere and Sheila Wirz. A disability can result from many kinds of medical conditions and will limit the activities in which a person can participate. People with disabilities are frequently ignored by their communities. However, UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) figures suggest that, on average, 5% (1 in 20) of the population of most countries have either a moderate or severe disability.
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by Khatib Alam and Zahid Mahmood. The development of local parks can have a great impact on community life – not only through the end product, but also through community participation in designing and constructing them. It can have a positive impact on the community in many ways – on social life, the economy, and health – as a park development project in Pakistan shows.
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Assessing our work The Bible has many examples of occasions when people’s lives and activities are examined, usually for the purpose of strengthening their relationships with God.
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Impact of electricity. One way that we measured the impact of bringing electricity to a village was to go back and ask people to consider how electricity has changed their lives. We divided the villagers into men’s, women’s, and children’s groups. Some of their comments were:
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Evaluating their impact The Myanmar Baptist Convention was formed in 1865 and is the largest Christian organisation in Myanmar. It works with 16 regional language conventions around the country.
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The following definitions each have an example from a well building programme Activities What is actually done
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In the present difficult economic situation, many animal vets have fewer and fewer treatments available to them. But they have to continue to help farmers with their services and are aware of how little money is usually available to them. Effective and cheap treatments become essential. Dakin solution is a very powerful disinfectant which can be used both for disinfecting small pieces of equipment and also for disinfecting and treating skin infections, such as found in rabbits’ ...