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"One participant said he felt he had ‘died and gone to heaven’ because now he could make chairs for the children he knew really needed them." Quoted from Jean Westmacott's report on the November 2007 APT course in Ndola in Zambia

Cerebral Palsy Africa (with funding from the Ashworth Trust) ran an APT training course in Ndola, in the Zambian Copper Belt area in November 2007.  The course was for CBR workers in programmes for disabled people all over the Copper Belt.

First participants have to understand how to make cardboard that is weak into a strong piece of furniture

Sometimes children need. to be supported in a sitting position. Otherwise they have to be left to lie on the floor.  Sometimes they need to learn what it feels like to be supported in standing. 

        

Appropriate Paper-Based Technology
(APT) Training Programmes
 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.
 
APT trainer explaining the properties of cardboard
Above: -Jean Westmacott explaining the properties of cardboard
Below: - Sister Marjorie testing the strength of an APT bench
Sr. Marjorie testing the strength of a bench
Below: - This little girl is being supported while she is measured for a chair
This little girl is supported in a sitting position while she is measured for a chair

The Director of Central Hospital Ndola presents certificate to participants at the end of the course

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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.

 

Temba Mundia speaks at the presentation about the difficulties faced by people with cerebral palsy in Zambia Temba Mundia talking to a mother of a child with cerebral palsy.  He said the hardest thing for people with cerebral palsy to deal with is the stygma that they are subjected to.

 

 

 

 

Little girl with spasticity trying to sit alone

Supported in an APT chair she is able to use her hands