Projects

     CDPD is a service center established to provide care, support, education and rehabilitation to children with disabilities and their families through the various activities of its different projects.

Community-Based Rehabilitation Project: The trained rehabilitation team visits people with disabilities, their communities and their families on a regular basis to give knowledge about disabilities and rehabilitation techniques. The teams go out every month. The families have a part in setting rehabilitation goals that will help the person with a disability to become more independent. Independence is the most important goal in developing the potential of a person with a disability. Gallery

Day Center and School Preparation Program:At the present time there are twenty children who come to the center for services. The children receive skills training in activities of daily living, as well as education and rehabilitation services. The purpose of the program is to train the children to help themselves in activities of daily living and to gain the skills and abilities needed to become integrated into their local schools. After the children are integrated into the local schools, the rehabilitation team visits the children in their schools and homes in order to work together with the child’s family and teachers to increase the child’s chances for success. Gallery

Special Education and Vocational Training:Children who are deaf and blind have a need for special education. CDPD provides support and scholarships so that these children can attend the schools for the deaf and for the blind. At the present time the project is providing support for six children who are deaf and five children who are blind. In the program for Vocational Training youth with disabilities are trained to develop vocational skills. The staff teaches youth crafts, sewing, how to do laundry and housekeeping, and how to maintain a vegetable garden. This is to help the youth who attend the center’s programs and others from the community to be able to live independently and have work to do in the future. Gallery

Income Generating Activities: CDPD helps families with weaving projects to generate income. Mothers who must care for children with disabilities are trained to weave and are then given yarn so that they can weave products at home. They can then bring the products back to CDPD who will help to find markets for them. This provides supplementary income for a family in which the mother cannot go out and find work because she is caring for a child who is unable to be left alone. Gallery

Awareness Programs: This project promotes the work of CDPD in both the Thai and the Karen languages. The staff develops posters, calendars, booklets, and dramas in order to provide teaching in schools, in communities, and through radio programs. The training provides information about disabilities including the causes, prevention and rehabilitation principles. This information is to promote understanding in the communities concerning work with people with disabilities and to help identify new clients. Gallery