The Special Mothers Project an advocacy and awareness
creation programme on cerebral palsy in the year 2018 will focus its advocacy
on getting people be it individuals or
organizations to develop services that suits the needs of families raising
children with special needs and in our case cerebral palsy.
We realize that there is very little in terms of services
that are beneficial to families raising children with special needs and
cerebral palsy in particular.
The Project will be looking into developing appropriate and
affordable care giver services. We have partners who are already doing
wonderfully well.
Multikids Academy and Foundation is almost a one stop shop,
therapy services are available to the public every Wednesday
With God Cerebral Palsy Ghana is a centre where children
with disability are accepted to enable especially mothers to work. Ellen Affam- Dadzie, Executive Director of the Centre says it is an educational facility for the children, she is working to make it inclusive and ready to employ two special mothers to work as care givers in the facility.
ICRF is an educational facility at Kanda that is pursuing an
inclusive centre for children between the ages of Zero and Five. She has a professional
nurse and is ready to employ two special mums to work as care givers. She has a
bus to pick up and drop off children at her facility
ShareCare Ghana operates a day care centre and does free
physiotherapy services for children with cerebral palsy and adults as well.
The Special Mothers Project wants more of such services to
lessen the burden of especially mothers in caring for their children with
cerebral palsy.
The Project’s major aim is to empower especially mothers to
engage in effective advocacy and do away with the attitude which attracts pity
and hands out from on-lookers
Our First meeting for the year 2018 is on 6Th
January at the Press Centre, Time is 2PM prompt.
We now have a website www.specialmothers.org
do take some time to explore
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