How to treat beneficiaries:
If you are involved with an NGO for the disabled, read Chapter 2 of How to Build a Good Small NGO. It discusses the importance of involving and respecting beneficiaries.
Interviewing & Counselling at the Grass Roots includes a section on recognizing and helping people with disabilities.
A practical manual:
Simple Devices to Assist the Physically Disabled has dozens of self-explanatory drawings for making devices from scrap materials
The following relevant books are available for download from this site:
Bees have huge value for communities but are sensitive to environmental stress and in decline worldwide. » Bees Without Borders has a global mission to educate and train impoverished individuals and communities in beekeeping skills. » African Honey Bee enables families from severely disadvantaged rural communities to build sustainable micro-beekeeping businesses – producing raw honey…
by Abdikadir Ismail, Maeve Moynihan , Elmubarak Eldaw & Miriam Winkel
According to WHO, adolescents face a world of opportunities and dangers. They are at risk from many things and may find it difficult to get help from services designed for older people in settled relationships. But they can also be seen as the group that can learn to protect itself: “In order for adolescents to…
Older people are very often an invisible section of society. Many face abuse, neglect, exclusion and poverty. For example in some cultures 25% of the elderly have nutritional anaemia – the result of an inadequate diet. In addition, many as they get older develop some of the degenerative diseases of aging. And they may not…
For activities at the different levels of care, see our manual Principles and Practice of PHC (Section 5.2) Major websites on HIV/AIDS are at WHO, Aids Alliance, UNAIDS and UNFPA AVERT has a comprehensive section on various kinds of HIV programming including prevention The Communication Initiative Network has a dedicated HIV/AIDS Network Useful for carers is our…