Project description
Jemima helps in Palestinian territory disabled children and their parents. Due to long waiting lists for the home, Jemima started home care a few years ago. This method is bearing fruit! By visiting the mostly Arab children at home and presenting exercises to the parents, therapists are able to help many children. A social worker visits the parents to teach them to accept that their child is different from other children.
Why this project?
In the Arab world, children with disabilities are seen as a curse to the families involved. Jemima's mission, set up from a Christian perspective, is to break that. Partly through Home Based Intervention (caring for and accommodating the disabled at home), this is increasingly successful. Physiotherapists and social workers visit families in their own homes to provide specialist help. That part of the project, is supported by our churches. The way Jemima is run and managed gives confidence in the future of the entire Jemima project, which also includes care for the severely disabled.
Impact
Disabled children are no longer seen as punishment or curse. People learn to understand that a disabled child is as valuable as another. Thus, progress is made not only for the physical development of the disabled child, but also for the spiritual development of the whole community.
What can we learn?
Deputies visited this project and are deeply impressed by the impact the home care project is having in people's lives and hearts, even if they are each other's 'opponents'.
