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Joint Operations of SCA and SGAA

PRESSRELEASE
Joint Operations of SCA and SGAA

January 4, 2006

From this date SCA RAD will be responsible for management of the project while SGAA will continue to raise funds and provide technical support. In 2007 RAD plans to expand the programme by starting Community-Based Rehabilitation activities in Eastern Afghanistan. SGAA believes that this will provide wider access for the disabled to rehabilitation services, especially those in rural areas, and is a positive step forward in the region until such time that the government can take responsibility fort these services. Together SCA an SGAA will continue to lobby with local and national government for the improvement of national disability services in Afghanistan and the integration of physiotherapists and orthopaedic technicians into Ministry of Public Health’s services structure.

In Kabul and Jalalabad SGAA form January 2006 can be contacted through the SCA/RAD offices at the following numbers:

Mr. Zemarai Saqeb – RAD Programme Coordinator, Kabul
Tel: 070 207 868

Mr. Samiuddin Saber, RAD/SGAA Manager, Jalalabad Tel: 070 263 283

Mrs Fiona Gall – SGAA Consultant, Kabul
Tel: 070 285 056

Ms Anne Hertzberg – RAD Senior Technical Advisor, Kabul Tel: 0799 016 344

* SGAA works in the three eastern provinces of Nangrahar, Laghman, and Kunar and treats over 12,000 patients a year with physiotherapy and makes over 2,500 orthopaedic
appliances, wheelchairs and mobility aids. SGAA also provides health education and disability awareness in schools and clinics to 80,000 children and adults a year.

** Rehabilitation of Afghans with Disability (RAD) is a comprehensive disability programme of SCA. RAD covers more than 1,400 villages in 32 districts in 10 provinces in the northern, north-eastern and south-eastern regions of
Afghanistan .The programme has five components; Community Mobilization, Awareness and Advocacy, Employment Support, Special Education, Physiotherapy , and Orthopaedic Workshops. The direct beneficiaries of the rehabilitation services and awareness of the programme are more than 100,000 persons while 150,000 persons indirectly benefit from the programme each year. The services are provided through three orthopaedic workshops, 46 physiotherapy clinics, 44 Community Rehabilitation and Development Centers and Sub-Centers and at the homes of the person with disabilities (Home Based Training ).