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A variety of ideas to help improve the nutrition of young children
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Improving access to sufficient, safe water
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There are an estimated 50 million people with epilepsy in the world. The majority of them (85%) live in the developing world, where there is often considerable discrimination due to ignorance about the condition and many difficulties in getting effective treatment. The Global Campaign against Epilepsy aims to overcome the medical and social barriers that affect the quality of life of those with epilepsy.
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by Rachel M Smith. Cambodia has one of the highest rates of people with disabilities in the world, partly a result of years of war and civil conflict. Nearly half of Cambodia’s population is under the age of 18, so many people with disabilities in Cambodia are in fact children.
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Having a child with disabilities is a challenge for all parents, whether they see the child as a punishment or, rightly, as a gift from God. Although most parents care for these children in the sense of keeping them warm, sheltered and fed, there is often little understanding of the importance and value of stimulating their development. It is easy to think that they can never respond or develop, but the experience of a centre for children with disabilities in North Africa shows that progress ...
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Disabilities: knowing your true value At a consultation on disability in Oxford 1998, it was said: ‘We want our disabilities to be seen as part of the rich diversity that God has created. We want to be given the dignity that God has given us in our differences.’
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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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