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Title: | Disability care in Africa: community-based rehabilitation in rural regions |
Editors: | Vermeer, Adri![]() Magyarszeky, Zsoka |
Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 384 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Amsterdam |
Publisher: | VU University Press |
ISBN: | 9086596886; 9789086596881 |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Uganda Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | disabled care children rural areas townships education communities NGO |
Abstract: | This book describes the development of a differentiated network of disability care in a developing rural area consisting of a number of townships in South Africa. The network includes residential care for abandoned, neglected and orphaned children with physical and/or intellectual disabilities; semi-residential care in group homes for young adults with a disability and daily care in day care centres for families with a disabled child in the surrounding townships; and home-based care for families with a disabled child at their homes. Then an analysis is provided about how home-based care is carried out in two other African countries, Uganda and Zimbabwe, by a non-governmental organization in The Netherlands, aiming at direct child assistance and capacity development in developing countries. Finally, in-service training activities are described that are necessary for the transition from a residential nursing-oriented facility to a community-based care organization. [ASC Leiden abstract] |