Cambodia - The Little Conquerors
Servants is helping to break down damaging myths with "The
Little Conquerors", a unique project providing support for
disabled children and their families.
Each week a group of mothers and their disabled children meet
for education, mutual support, and rehabilitation.
This is an effective way to teach the family simple
physiotherapy and care giving skills in an environment of care
and support. Experienced families welcome newcomers and
encourage them with stories about their own children's
progress in the program.
Medical and physiotherapy care
All disabled children in "The Little Conquerors" receive
appropriate medical care according to their condition. For
example, a large number of children with epilepsy are learning
to live with the major challenges of their disease with
medical assistance and support from Servants.
Breakthroughs with local schools
Servants has also had some major breakthroughs with local
schools who were previously unwilling and unable to accept
disabled children. By assisting them to build ramps and other
facilities for disabled children we are now at the stage where
several of the children in the program are able to attend
school on a regular basis.
One little conqueror's story
Ewan (8) has cerebral palsy. He suffers from a debilitating
disease which traps his excellent brain inside a body that
won't do what he wants it to. When we met Ewan he
couldn't sit up or feed himself, let alone stand up and walk
around. He faced a bleak future, lying in the corner of
the shack where he lives with his two sisters and parents with
little chance of reaching his full potential.
Ewan joined our little conquerors program and made remarkable
progress. Through a mixture of physiotherapy,
encouragement and perseverance, Ewan has now learned to walk,
feed himself and even go to the toilet by himself. Ewan
is now asking to go to a regular school, so we have begun
teaching him once a week at his home. Who knows what the
future holds now!
How can you help?
Contact Servants Cambodia (cambodia@servantsasia.org) to find out how you can help
