DISABILITY INFO > Physical Impairment
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Physical Impairment Physical impairment is the most visible of all disabilities. Those impacted by a physical impairment often suffer from the most obvious discrimination and stigmatisation.Resulting from a wide range of causes, often related to the poverty driven environment people live in, where access to medical care is limited or non-existent. Physical impairments truly show that disability is a cause and a consequence of poverty in the developing world. cbm works with a wide range of physical impairments, providing surgical, rehabilitative and medical care along with the wide range of community based programmes in health, education, livelihoods and empowerment. The following impairments form a large part of our work: Asnekecha’s Story Asnekecha lost her feet in the family cooking fire as an infant. Banished to the edge of the village by their friends and family her parents struggled to make a living from their small plot to provide for Asnekecha and her 5 brothers and sisters.When cbm’s workers found her Asnekecha was an 18 year old girl who did not believe she would ever be able to participate in life fully. Not only that, she felt she was holding back her family because of her disability. With no access to microfinance because of her disability, Asnekecha and her family were trapped in the grip of extreme poverty. Through a loan of only $250 cbm was able to provide Asnekecha and her family with the funding to buy a cow and the training needed to care for the cow and trade the milk and butter they got in the local market. Now Asnekecha is a beacon to what a woman with a disability can contribute to a community. |
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