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Participation in life
People with disabilities have a hard time in rural Cambodia, even more so if their physical disability is compounded by a mental impairment. They need consistent and individualised support. However, many families lack the knowledge and money to do this. They are also often overlooked by state authorities and marginalised by society.
The Misereor partner organisation Karunar Battambang is committed to ensuring that those affected are no longer neglected. Your donation will help these children, young people and their families to fulfil their potential - for a secure future.
Inclusion is a human right
In addition to important rehabilitative care and support, Karuna Battambang provides training to ensure that these people can fulfil a task in their family. For example, they can set the table, do the laundry or feed the animals. Or bake a cake that can be sold at the market.
In this way, the often neglected family member becomes more involved in the community. At the same time, parents are taught how they can take good care of a relative with a disability using simple means. They also network and empower themselves with other parents so that disability is no longer a taboo. Karuna Battambang also holds talks with people in authority and key figures in the village community to raise awareness of the rights and dignity of people with disabilities.
In the rural provinces of Kompong Chhnang and Battambang, the Misereor partner organisation operates five day care facilities. Here, the children receive speech, learning and physiotherapy. Later, some of them move to inclusive school classes and can go to school.
Individual development
These interventions often shed light on the whole family. For example, six-year-old Tola with Down's syndrome can finally speak to her parents in small sentences thanks to speech therapy. An eight-year-old with intellectual disabilities and hemiplegia knows what legs, arms and hands are for the first time. And young Theary, who is also paralysed on one side, has a small job in a kiosk. The list of examples is as long as the list of participants: 350 young people are currently following their individual development plan. Either at home or in one of Karuna Battambang's five rehabilitation centres. Here, well-trained staff lovingly address their individual challenges and potential.
This is what our joint success looks like
- 498 people with disabilities received support through an individual development plan
- 20 adults with intellectual disabilities completed a vocational training programme
- 16 municipalities created a community development plan that takes into account the problems of children with intellectual disabilities
- 224 children received integrative and inclusive education
- 180 people with intellectual disabilities or autism have learnt to do everyday housework
To ensure that your donation has an impact in the long term, Misereor uses a small proportion for important administration an related tasks. This way, we make sure that projects are selected carefully and implemented responsibly and that their effects are regularly monitored. Should it not be possible to use your donation as planned, we will use it where it is currently needed most.
Our local partner organisations
Karuna Battambang
Karuna Battambang emerged in 2017 from an organisation that was committed to ensuring that PWDs are more involved in the social and economic life of their families and village communities. Karuna Battambang works in the three provinces of Kompong Chhnang, Battambang and Kandal.
Miriam Thiel
Donor Communications
- Telephone
- +49 241 442506
- miriam.thiel@misereor.de
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