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Hope Disability Centre, Srinagar, Wayil,
Ganderbal, Kashmir, India |
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In a rural village 35kms from
the summer capital, Srinagar, MEND has helped
our partner; Hope Centre, to build and run a
modern rehabilitation centre that is quickly
establishing itself as an innovative and
effective place for disabled children to regain
their mobility and independence.
Hope Disability Centre
Sami Wani (Executive
Director)
GPO Box 970 Srinagar
Kashmir,
India 190001
Phone: mob. 9419901605 -
office. 0194 2419 536
Email:
samiwani12@yahoo.com
Website:
www.hopecentre.webs.com
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11 Jan
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Click on Hope Disability Centre logo,
Srinagar, Kashmir, India to download
their latest newsletter in .pdf format.
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16 Nov -
Our organisation Hope
disability Centre is situated at Wayil,
Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Nepal is the neighbouring country of
India. You can take a flight from Delhi
to Kashmir- Srinagar and from Srinagar
Airport it is about 35 Km to Wayil,
Ganderbal. We are currently working in
partnership with Handicap International
and Finance support of European
Commission Humanitarian Aid Dept.
Our main focus areas are in three
districts of Kashmir i:e, Ganderbal,
Baramulla and Kupwara. The 2 Districts -
Kupwara and Baramulla lies in the
boarder area of Kashmir. And as per the
latest survey, there are 2500 kids and
Adults with amputation due to the mine
blasts. So, we are in huge need of P&O
support in terms of equipment, men and
material.
We have our own
Fabrication centre and is equipped with
some basic machines like: 1. Oven, 2.
Bench Grinder 3. Drilling Machine 4.
Router machine with dust sucker. 5.
Vacuum Pump. 6. working Bench etc.
We have 4 P&O Staff in our centre,
P&O officer, P&O Technician, P&O
Assistant and Bench Worker . All are P&O
Professionals and has completed P&O
courses, except bench worker. However,
they all need a training in certain
areas like Scoliosis Bracing,
Fabricating and fitting, Knee hyper
extension control braces. etc
We
are using CR equipment and we are in
need of TT kits, TF kits, Knee joints,
upper extremity prosthetic kits like
functional and cosmetic, BE & AE Kits,
Cosmetic Gloves, TES belt for
prosthesis, Prosthetic Alignment jigs.
We also need some orthotic
components like poly centric knee joint
for braces, good quality dorsiflexion
assist. Ankle joints, light weight
caliper kits and PP sheets.
We
have 4 Physiotherapists and 1
Occupational Therapists working 5 days a
week from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm (Saturday
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17 Oct -
Denis Buchanan is Rob's
(Director MEND) brother who owns a fruit
orchard in Tasmania. He is a keen
tramper in the Himalayas and recently
visited the Hope Centre in Srinagar,
Kashmir. Denis looked at fruit growing
in the area and how to improve
production and .....
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26 August -
'Opening of residential and post surgery
care hostel has come as a relief to
Ghulam Haider, who is a carpenter by
profession as his son Asif Haider,14,
required continuous rehabilitation
services after he received CTEV (club
foot deformity) corrective surgery.
Ghulam Haider said, "Initially I could
not afford medical treatment for my son Asif that is why his condition left
unattended for almost 13 years. It was
in June 2011 that my friend
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18 August -
Mubeena, is a beneficiary of Hope Disability
Centre, Kashmir, we have visited several times to her home and she was coming to HDC in 2008-09 for rehabilitation.. During that year we used to pick and drop the beneficiaries. She came her with a walker on top of our HDC van. Now she is able to walk with a walking
stick after suffering for 18 years.
Click on image to enlarge.
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30 July 2011 - Ganga
and Rob visited the new Hope Centre in
Kupwara, Kashmir yesterday and were
pleased to see it will be soon
inaugurated. A number of items remain to
be finished so that the building can
open soon. But great to see that already
the 4 fulltime Hope staff, funded by
Handicap International support, are busy
identifying and assessing and referring
patients from this Kupwara centre for
treatment. ALTSO sourced the funds
(about US$25000) from the Dorothea Haus
Ross Foundation to build this Centre.
Link to Hope Kupwara Page |
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Centre Visitors Information |
Hope
Centre Volunteer Application Form |
Hope
Kashmir Financial Report 2009-2010 |
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Hope Outreach Project - Kupwara
- click for more information
In 2007, the Hope Centre began an outreach project in the Kupwara District; a remote farming district near the Indo-Pakistan border that has had 17 years of militancy and also damage from the 2005 earthquake. This effort was sponsored by the Abilis Foundation with a generous grant of $15,000.
Progress so far includes: Assessed 500 disabled persons. Rehabilitated 75 kids and youth. . Provided wheelchairs, crutches,
calipers & prostheses to 60 beneficiaries.. Organised 17 cases for corrective surgery. Provided special schooling and regular physiotherapy. Set up
skills' training of members, supported by a micro-loan scheme
If the local community donates Hope suitable land a permanent Centre will be built in Kupwara in 2009.
Future Rehabilitation Centres in Kashmir
MEND's goal is to have a rehabilitation centre in every district in the Kashmir Valley. There are 10 districts. Each rehabilitation centre would have two physiotherapists. We could help 1000 new children every year. Because of the ongoing conflict in the Kashmir Valley, there are few medical centres left. There are an estimated 200 physiotherapists, and no jobs for them. With a relatively small investment, we could put these physios to work and greatly improve thousands of lives in the Kashmir Valley.
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