The Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital was carefully identified and chosen by the Executive Director of Malamulele Onward Dr. Gillian Saloojee in 2012. Several visits were conducted to the hospital in order to determine if the hospital met the necessary criteria to qualify as a Malamulele Onward site. The hospital was seen to be a very good site because it is a government hospital in a poor rural area, there are a large number of children with Cerebral Palsy attending the monthly Cerebral Palsy clinic and there seemed to be a supportive management team. Malamulele Onward decided to take on the challenge of conducting an intervention for 91 children with Cerebral Palsy at the hospital in two weeks. Strategic Goals for the intervention: 1. Identifying and reaching children with cerebral palsy living in remote rural areas 2. Supporting and empowering those involved in the rehabilitation and care of children with Cerebral Palsy. This includes the children’s families as the rehabilitation staff responsible for providing services to the children 3. Improving the quality of life of children with Cerebral Palsy by meeting their physical and emotional needs. By facilitating workshops that provide information and insight into the condition of Cerebral Palsy and ways carers can support each other and their children.

1. Nqutu Intervention
October 2013
Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital

2. Packing equipment
The trailer from Gary Austin and Hyundai from Europcar are pack to the rafters
and its time to hit the open road to Nqutu.

3. Down the long and windy roads. We
are off to Nqutu for the two week
intervention.

4. We take in the beauty of the landscape
before us

5. We arrive, dinner is prepared, the
team meets.

6. It’s a beautiful new day as the week
begins
The hall is swept and
mopped
The hall is set up. New and old
equipment are placed in parking
bays for each child.

7. October Intervention 2013

8. Let the therapy begin …………

9. Hard at work

10. Group Therapy

11. Where else can we learn and have
this much fun?

12. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the
fantastic three!

13. Carer to carer workshops

14. Sitting together and sharing information helps
us realise that we are not alone.

15. We learnt
more
about our
children

16. All the children were happy to receive
equipment

17. Equipment was
measured , adjusted,
fitted and cleaned.

19. Gifts in kind were greatly appreciated
and received

20. To the team ……..

21. Thank you!

22. The week ends in song, dance and a
thankful prayer

23. Everything
and
everyone
goes home
merrily.

26. Goodbye