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Joint cooperations between SCA and SGAA

Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) and Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal (SGAA) have joined a cooperation from 1st January 2006.

SGAA’s physiotherapy and rehabilitation programmes in Jalalabad and Eastern Afghanistan will be run jointly with Swedish Committee for Afghanistan’s Disability Programme – Rehabilitation of Afghans with Disability (RAD) and 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. 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 for these services.

SCA and SGAA will together 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 service structures.