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Community Based Rehabilitation, an Urban
Experience
Community Based Rehabilitation
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general concept about CBR is that it is a quick, cheap episodic distribution
of some appliances for physically disabled people living in a rural
area. Many government as well as non government agencies, with all good
intentions to rehabilitate disabled people, resort to quick fix solutions,
with no long lasting impact in the community. Rehabilitation, considered as
functional restoration, can be achieved only by empowering the disabled as
well by enriching their community. Rehabilitation, which is based in
the community, thus acquires a deeper meaning. It amounts to development
of the community as a whole, empowering the disabled persons to achieve their
complete potential, enabling them to integrate into the fabric of the
community and make decisions for themselves. This could also involve
dealing with both physical and architectural barriers within the community.
Empowering the disabled persons may involve medical, social, vocational and
educational inputs. Enriching the community involves education,
creating awareness, providing basic resources, changing attitudes and building
constructive approaches towards disability and related problems.
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Foreword Community Based
Rehabilitation Why CBR? How we did CBR?
Activities Methodology Lessons from the
field Evaluation Sustainability
Acknowledgement
Contact
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