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Gambia observes World Diabetes Day

The Gambia - on Friday, November 14th - joined the rest of the world to observe World Diabetes Day on the theme “Diabetes in Children and Adolescents”.  The annual event is a day set aside by the United Nations (UN) in response to the alarming rise in diabetes prevalence and other communicable  diseases around the world. It was against this backdrop that the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with WHO and the International Diabetes Federation held a ceremony to...

focus ON DISABILITY: The Rehabilitation Model

In many ways it was the consequences of the two world wars that led to the development of this new approach that put emphasis on repair of functional repairments. According to the re/habilitation model, the main problem was the impairment of the individual, and his/her lack of skills. Therefore, the main aims of re/habilitation were to be attained through the development or recovery of functional skills (e.g. activities of the daily living) and employment (productivity). Because the problem...

Focus on disability - Introduction

This new column, as the name implies, will focus generally on disability, disabled people, their contribution to national development and their relationship with their able bodied counterparts. The columnist, Yahya Muhammad Bah, is himself a disabled; but a disable with a difference. But Mr Bah is not taking the situation surrounding his achievement for granted, that is why he feels it prudent to share his experience with the rest of the public. In the next few weeks week be reading a...

Annual Disabled Peoples’ Sports Event Set for Saturday

The first annual disability sports event, which will feature Basketball, Volleyball, Goalball, football matches and Wheelchair road races, is billed for this weekend at the Serrekunda West Mini Stadium. The event, organised by The Gambia Paralympic Association, is meant to promote disability sports across the country and will be a two day affair and will kick off on Saturday July 19th to the 20th.  It is supported by the National lottery through the Big Lottery fund. Speaking to Pointsports...

Disability Sports Event Slated for July

The Gambia Paralympic Committee has expressed its intention to organise its first disability sports event in July as part of its awareness raising in relation to sports and disabilities. The event will be sponsored by the British Big Lottery (BLF). According to Sulayman Colley, President of The Gambia National Paralympic Committee, formerly The Gambia Physically Disabled Sports Association, the event will be a three-day affair and will take place at the Serrekunda West. “We intent to make it...

Boy 13, needs urgent overseas treatment

Lamin Ceesay, a 13 year old boy from Tallinding is in urgent need of financial assistance to undergo overseas treatment in Dakar, Senegal. According to a medical report from the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, Lamin Ceesay was presented to the disability clinic at the hospital with a one year history of being unable to look to the left side plus two months of weakness of the right arm and leg. “There was no associated convulsions, weight loss, fever, cough, contact with TB, vomit or...

Teresia Wamwitha: “We fled our home with only the clothes we had on”

For four weeks, Teresia Wamwitha, 47, took refuge in the bush with 10 children - eight of her own and two of her sister’s, who died 10 years ago - after fleeing post-election violence in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. Her house in Burnt Forest area was razed to the ground; she barely managed to get the children out on the night of 29 December when violence broke out in parts of the country. Having been shunned by another sister due to her HIV-positive status, Wamwitha is now renting a room for...

IEP Organise One Day Workshop

Integrated Education Programme (IEP), in collaboration with GOVI, recently organised a one day workshop for participation in IEP and education on its mission, activities and the way forward. The programme was attended by both parents and guardians and aimed to focus on blind and impaired vision children. In her welcoming remarks, the IEP national coordinator Ramou S. Riley said that since IEP came into being in The Gambia it has had great concern and consideration for children who are blind....

SENEGAL: Disabled students conquer daily challenges

On the campus of Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegal capital Dakar, physically handicapped students can often be seen crawling unaided up concrete staircases or across dirty bathroom floors. With a few exceptions – such as the main library and a new amphitheatre – buildings on the sprawling, sandy campus have no handicap accessibility. "Users of hand-powered or motorised wheelchairs have to crawl to access certain buildings," the disabled students association said in a recent letter to...

Street Begging Will Soon Come to an end

Bundung Association for the disabled and their children has promised to stop street begging soon. The NGO, which helps people living with disability and their children, is also engaged in development initiatives. The association states its primary focus as being education and skills training as a means to alleviating poverty and empowering participants to adequately tackle the problems of everyday life. In an interview with The Point, Mr. Demba K. Darboe President of the association...