Skill training for BEHOD members - Worldschool assignment
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We would like advise on proven methods to train skills so that we can put together a training that we can give at the centre in Jinja.
Related questions
* What types of skill training should be conducted at the training centre?
* Which methods of training are the best option for Jinja?
Most people with disabilities have never gone to school. They lack the life skills such as personal hygiene, manage their own money, they don’t know how to save.
They also don’t know how to have a big impact on what they do, to love their work (sensitization, build self esteem)
People will easily assimilate those skills which are closely linked with the work they have done in the past. For example, a person with a background in farming will easily acquire the skills required for most farm-related activities.
Acquiring skills in other areas can of course be successfully done, but the level of difficulty to learn will be a bit higher in such cases.
Different people might have different skills in your group, or the level of particular skills may vary from one person to another.
To make your work easy, you must 'map' each person in the group separately, and create a chart with 'exisitng skills' on one axis, and 'unskilled'. 'semi-skilled' and 'skilled' on the other axis. From this chart you will notice those areas where new skills have to be acquired, or areas where skills have to be upgraded. This will then tranlate into your next level of activities where you can plan training in specific areas.
If you do not follow a properly structured approach and work at random with the training, you will end up wasting a lot of time and resources, and the affected people might be a lot older before somebody rediscovers how they should have been trained in the first place, when they were a lot younger many years back.
Vijai
Thank you Vijai,
People with disabilities as above have never gone to school the majority and their disabilities many of them had polio problem and it afected the borns, farming will not be able to work we are looking for life skills that can help them to be self reliant. Most of the group people grew up in confinement they are not exposed to many things due to the beliefs, now we are trying to get ideas of how ew can help may be they learn to save their money, work using their remaining potensial.
Thank you for the contribution i will continue getting i deas to see how we can achieve our goal.
Paul
Hi Paul,
We can try to divide the disabled people into different groups based on their disability and devise skill training for each group accordingly. For example, we can have three groups:
1. Group one can comprise people who lack mobility (those who cannot walk, people affected by polio, paralysis, etc)
2. Group two can comprise people with sensory disabilities (deaf, blind, etc )
3. Group three for people dealing with some form of mental illness or learning difficulties.
Once we identify these groups, we can try and understand the issues which are common across all groups and also those which are unique to each group. Based on this information, we can try to come up with a suitable skills training plan for BEHOD.
Also, based on preliminary research, it looks like the following two organizations might be able to help us:
Center for International Studies and Cooperation - http://www.ceci.ca/ceci/en/index.html. (They had set up a similar project in Vietnam to provide disability-training to trainers)
Swedish Organization of Handicapped International Aid Foundation (SHIA) - http://www.shia.se/index.php?l=en&p=index - They also have partners and ongoing projects in Uganda.
Am sure there are more organizations out there. I'm going to research more into the work done by these 2 organizations and also look for other organizations/ experts that may be able to help us.
Lastly, is BEHOD a member of the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda ? (http://international.egmont-hs.dk/nudipu/). They seem to have quite a few schemes and programs which might be of help to us.
(I'm no expert in this field, but these are some ideas which come to mind. Hope they help:))
Regards,
Bharathi
Hi,
Our names are Carlijn, Allison and Tamara. We are working on this project and we've thought about some solutions. We would like to hear your opinions about it, because it's hard to make sure for us if we can make it work. We thought a possible solution for victims of polio could be advertising in Europe about sending vaccines to Jinja for the people who aren't infected. The people that are infected could get some kind of physiotherapy. For malaria we have the following solution: learning people in Jinja how they can make mosquito nets and how to get a better hygiene. Perhaps we can decrease aids by sexual education. People with missing bodyparts can be helped by learning how to live with their handicaps en we can make publicity so there could be send tools, like wheelchairs.
So what do you people think about these plans? Are they impossible or can they be worked out?
With kind regards,
Carlijn, Allison and Tamara
Hello,
Bon Jour!
I am looking forward in helping you with this project in any way that I can.
Best Regards,
Jeremy Ecle
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..the world will make a way for a man know where he is going..
Hello Jeremy,
Hope you are doing fine i would first welcome you to Jinja Central we are grateful to have you as one of the volunteers.
We are trying to up-lift the standards of leaving for people with Disabilities in Uganda and in Jinja particular, we are giving them skills in computer skills and other skills that can make them self reliant as they have been marginalized for a long time which created a dependence syndrome amongst the group we are also trying to train them in life skills not only to those who have never gone to school but even the one in school so please feel free to join where you fit for any question please don't hesitate.
Once again you are most welcome to Jinja central.
Paul
Hi Paul,
Its been a while since we heard from you. Hope all is well.
Carlijn and team have given some great pointers for mobilizing resources and other aids for the members of BEHOD. With respect to providing the actual skill training itself, I think it is best to get the expert opinion of people specifically working in this field. There is someone I can contact but before that, I have some questions I need answers to. Whenever you can, please do clarify the same.
1. How many disabled people are there at BEHOD?
2. Can you give a breakdown of the different types of disability these people have? Or at least the major disabilities with a rough estimate of the number of people affected by each?
3. What skill trainings are currently being offered at BEHOD? Do you have any specific skills in mind that you would like to offer in the future?
4. What in your opinion is the biggest challenge or more pressing need? Infrastructure and resources (like wheelchairs, tailoring kits, etc)? Knowledge and methodology (do you have issues deciding HOW you can go about training people with different disabilities, the methods involved, etc?) Or both?
5. If someone were to give you some proven methods for training disabled people, do you have enough trainers/ volunteers to train them?
Please do let me know.
Thanks,
Bharathi
Thank you Carlijn and team,
Yes have been also wondering what was happening here are the answers to the questions.
1. How many disabled people are there at BEHOD?
Ans: We have 34 People with disabilities.
2. Can you give a breakdown of the different types of disability these people have? Or at least the major disabilities with a rough estimate of the number of people affected by each?
Ans:We have 4Dumb and deaf, physically hand capped 30
3. What skill trainings are currently being offered at BEHOD? Do you have any specific skills in mind that you would like to offer in the future?
Ans: Yes hand crafts carpentry, and the computer skills or any other life skills.
4. What in your opinion is the biggest challenge or more pressing need? Infrastructure and resources (like wheelchairs, tailoring kits, etc)? Knowledge and methodology (do you have issues deciding HOW you can go about training people with different disabilities, the methods involved, etc?) Or both?
Ans: Both
5. If someone were to give you some proven methods for training disabled people, do you have enough trainers/ volunteers to train them?
Ans:No, for i depend on volunteers as i have not yet got any productive project that can sustain this project but if we are given the methods it can help us to look for the trainers.
Great! Thank you very much. I will try to get information on some proven methods to train people with disability.
Also, could you please let us know if BEHOD is a member of the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) ? (http://international.egmont-hs.dk/nudipu/). NUDIPU appears to have some schemes which might be useful to us. If BEHOD is not a member yet, would you be interested in becoming a member? Would it be okay if one us contacted NUDIPU regarding membership for BEHOD? Please let us know.
I have pasted below the contact details of NUDIPU for your reference.
Physical Address:
Plot No.530 Kisasi Road Bukoto.
Postal Address:
P.O Box 8567.
Kampala-Uganda.
Telephone:256-41-540179/531380.
Telefax:256-41-540178.
Mobile:256-77-221174/5, 256-77-436618.
E-mail Address nudipu@starcom.co.ug (or) nudipu@ultonline.com
I have never contacted NUDIPU but we are working with the Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development we are yet to sign the memorandum of understanding.
I have never contacted NUDIPU but we are working with the Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development we are yet to sign the memorandum of understanding.
Hi Paul,
Last week we went to the Liliane fund and we have talked a lot about Jinja. The Liliane fund had paid a lot of money for the disabled children in Jinja and they did a great job there. They advised us to make a list of the 34 disabled. So we would like to receive all the names of the disabled people, their disability and how old they are. If we receive the names we can make a list and then we have a better view and it will make it easier to help them.
Thanks in advance.
With kind regards,
Carlijn, Allison and Tamara
Hi Carlijn, Allison and Tamara,
Thank you for the hard work and the determination you have shown. We mainly work with grown up from 15-any age that we can train in skills.My camera died so i have no way i can send you pictures but i will try to explain.
1. Joseph Gamubaka Uses clutches on both
2. Robert Mukama is very crippled he can only move in a wheel chair.
3. Perus Nabirye her both legs can't be used without the clutches.
4. Ester Namusobya she can't use clutches she can only use a wheel chair(this one needed surgery but failed due to funds).
5. Jane Namale she can crawl and can use a wheel chair the upper part is okay but slow learner.
6. Amos he can only use a wheel chair his hands can be used though they have some disabilities.
7. Kulusumu She can use wheel chair only very intelligent she has something in her back and her legs have no strength to walk
8. Ever one arm is disabled but she can walk though she limps but she can walk by herself.
9 Juliet has calipers on both legs and she uses clutches for her movement and wheel chair.
10. Bikufa she can't move without a wheel chair both handa are good.
11. Bitaminsi she can only crawl or use a wheel chair her both hands are fine.
12. Johnson Talifunvuwa he has one hand normal and one leg the other side both leg and hand is disabled.
13. Four deaf and mute.
14. Olikod one leg and walk with one stick.
15. Godfrey does not use stick but limps.
16. Bunduka one leg and use one stick he can't move without it.
17. Hajira she has one arm.
18. Jaliru one leg and one hand he can only use a wheel chair.
19. Dhikusooka he has one leg and use a walking stick.
20. Florence she has clippers on both legs she use walking sticks.
21. Simon use one stick but both legs can't stand in wheel chair.
22. Hellen her one leg is lame she use walk stick.
23. Mutesi she can only use wheel chair
24. Nalubega can't walk she can only use a wheel chair.
25. Mpagi both legs can't walk in wheel chair.
26. Biyinzika he is in the in wheel chair all the time.
27. John he is in wheel chair all the time he has difficult in hearing.
28. Twaha he can use two clutches and wheel chair.
29. Musenze he has one leg desabled
These are some of the names for the pwds who are here and we have even those who completed last year.18
Thank you Paul,
We will use the list and we keep you informed!
With kind regards,
Carlijn, Allison and Tamara
Thank you Carlijn,
Hope all goes well
Paul