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Appropriate Paper-Based Technology
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APT Course Ndola,
Zambia November 2007 |
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Participant on APT course explaining
how he is making a chair |
| Jean Westmacott (assisted by Peter Fitzmaurice, who took the photographs) set up and ran the course for 19 participants. Sister Marjorie, a physiotherapist working for the Community Based Rehabilitation Programme run by the Catholic Diocese in the Copper Belt, was responsible for arranging for the participants and the mothers and children to attend. |
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| Above: -Jean Westmacott explaining the properties of cardboard |
| Below: - Sister Marjorie testing the strength of an APT bench |
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| Below: - This little girl is being supported while she is measured for a chair |
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At the end of the course Dr. Malawo, the Director of the Central Hospital, Ndola presented certificate to the participants.
The event was attended by other hospital officialsand parents of children and was reported on the national radio. Among the speeches one of the most moving was one given by Temba Mundia who spoke about the difficulties faced by people with cerebral palsy in Zambia.
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