OUR PROGRAMS
Our programs are Disability & Healthcare, Education, and Social Transformation
Children with Cerebral Palsy and severe intellectual impairments are supported with Physiotherapy, Occupationaltherapy, musicotherapy, and referral to specialized Center.
Physiotherapy
At Wikwiheba Mwana Center, Physiotherapy is service that can benefit infants and children with physical impairments that include: cerebral Palsy, Gross motor delay, Developmental, Coordination Disorder, Down Syndrome, Muscular Dystrophy or other neuromuscular challenges, Weight challenges.
Infants receive day-care functional exercises such as Postural exercise and education., Movement techniques, and advice and education to parents, relatives and caregivers. A child is cared for and can reach their potentials.
Wikwiheba Mwana engage parents and caregivers in Physiotherapy services for their children, to witness progress and learn how they can help children at home. Therapists of Wikwiheba Mwana work closely with parents and conduct home visits to monitor the evolution of practice.
Occupationaltherapy
Wikwiheba Mwana Therapists employ a number of activities like picking things up, to build fine motor skills, and jumping or running an obstacle course to build the gross motor skills. Therapists work on daily basis to help children to get dressed by their own.
Figure: When parents of children with disability come to assist the therapy of their children, they can also knit the baskets
Musicotherapy
Wikwiheba Mwana Center has been lucky to get tools that help in Music Therapy. This is the conscious use of the music that help the health of infants and children to improve. Therapeutic singing helps our children in all aspects that benefit their entire being: psychomotor skills, brain plasticity, cognitive aspects, and emotional balance to communication, sociability, and spiritual connection. Music therapy allows children to release traumas, balance their energy and improve their mood and attitude towards life. Referral to special care facilities
The article 11 of the law N°01/2007 of January 2007 relating to protection of persons with disability states that persons with disabilities have rights to appropriate education with respect to the nature of their disability. Special conditions are allowed for those who cannot sit for exams under the same conditions like others. Education policy in Rwanda expects that all children should benefit from inclusive basic education program and special needs education is integral part of the Education sector plan. Wikwiheba Mwana uses Special educational whereby children with disabilities get special support as it is harder for them to learn than most children the same age. These children need extra help that include: reading, writing, number work or understanding information, expression, making friends or interacting with adults, behaving properly in school and organizing themselves
Model inclusive ECD
Community children join the children with disabilities in the Center and learn together in Early Childhood Education. The age of these children is normally from 3 to 6, but for those with disabilities it can be a bit more due to impairments.
Adult literacy (Alphabetization)
Wikwiheba Mwana supports adult to catch up with Numeracy, Literacy and Life skills. It is worth mentioning that illiteracy level in Rwanda is still high in adult especially in rural areas, and in women than men.
III. Social transformation
Tubarerere mu Muryango (TMM): an initiative that aims at having every child raised in a family, regardless of their state of having disabilities or not.
At the end of 2018, all children that were in Wikwiheba Mwana Boarding were reintegrated in families. Families were encouraged to foster children and they are till now, children with disabilities are members of their families. Thanks to those families that are Malayika Murinzi (Guardian Angels). Wikwiheba Mwana pays regular visits to those family to continue providing needed care to fostered children with disabilities. Recreation At Wikwiheba Mwana, children and adults get time for recreation as source of disease prevention and promotion of quality life. The Center hosts youth for different sports that include Karate.
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$5500
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