Disabled therapy

As I have said we went to visit the disabled therapy programme today. This takes two forms, therapy based in a purpose built centre and home visits. HOM partners with the local city council and another charity to provide, physical, occupational and speech therapy to children in the communities of Mandaluyong. They treat 500 children in total, most of whom are not associated with HOM. We visited the centre first, the man in the white shirt runs the centre and the ladies in yellow are HOM workers:



This is Tara helping with physical therapy:



This is Sarah helping with an autistic boy, he had to draw shapes by following dotted lines, colour them in and then cut them out, to try to develop his coordination skills:



This girl is Leia, she is 13 years old, although she looks less then 8 years old, you can see how emaciated her arms are from lack of movement, her legs were worse. A HOM staff member is assigned to her and visits once a week for an hours physical therapy. This therapy has been taking place for 3 years:



Our second visit was to a family who has two disabled children, one with cerebral palsy and another with autism:



The team do an amazing job with very limited resources, may God bless them and the children they serve.