Case Stories
Case Story of John Avoka
John Avoka is a physically challenged client of the Presbyterian Community Based Rehabilitation(CBR) Programme. He hails from Kugzua community within the Tempane District of the Upper East Region of Northern Ghana……….
Mr. Seidu Laar, Visual Impairment, at Basoyonde (through Mumuni)
Georgina Musah, aged 35 is physically challenged and lives in Suamvuus community in the Garu District of Northern Ghana. She became physically impaired at the age of five (5) due to poliomyelitis. Georgina was not sent to school and was always indoors in view of stigma. Given that disability is viewed with negative lenses and there is so much discrimination against people with disabilities in Georgina’s community, she was secluded and lived miserably…….
Case Story of Mohammed Shaibu
Shaibu Mohammed is a 7 year old physically impaired project participant from Gbanterago community of northern Ghana. He was born with an impairment after a prolonged labour and has never been able to walk. According to his parents, they did not enroll him into school because they had no means of transport to carry him to school and back daily. One day, Shaibu’s mother heard about the Giving for Change (GfC) project through a fundraising champion who visited their community on a door to door fundraising mission. She immediately walked to the PCBR- Garu office to report about the situation of Shaibu and to solicit help………
Case Story of Kolan Lamisi
Kolan Lamisi, aged 40 is physically challenged and lives in Garu-Natinga. She became physically disabled following an accident she was involved in many years ago. Lamisi’s situation was one of misery, dejection and neglect by the family in view of stigma associated with disability. She had mobility constraints and could not afford her basic needs…….
Case Story of Abigail Awini
Salifu Awini is a 24 year old hearing/speech impaired person resident in Garu in northern Ghana. At childhood he was said to have contracted severe cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) and this had a telling on his disability. His parents were peasant farmers and were beset with poverty in the face of inadequate livelihoods and low incomes. Under the circumstances, Salifu’s parents opted to enrol his siblings into elementary schools but left him to his fate………
Case Story of Salifu Awini
Salifu Awini is a 24 year old hearing/speech impaired person resident in Garu in northern Ghana. At childhood he was said to have contracted severe cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) and this had a telling on his disability. His parents were peasant farmers and were beset with poverty in the face of inadequate livelihoods and low incomes. Under the circumstances, Salifu’s parents opted to enrol his siblings into elementary schools but left him to his fate……..
Case Story of Lariba Apuwendib
Lariba Apuwendib aged 50, hails from Garu-Natinga in Northern Ghana. She did not have any disability at birth. Her parents Ndebang Abanga (father) and Akusia Ndeogo (mother) were subsistent farmers who did not pay heed to education, hence she was not sent to school.
When Lariba was about 10 years old, she was affected by poliomyelitis but her parents attributed it to superstition and did not seek timely medical care. Instead they resorted to use of herbs and offering of sacrifices to their gods and ancestors for they believed that it was the doing of the gods and that the gods had power to heal their daughter…..
Case Story of Lamisi Konle
Lamisi Konle aged 47 hails from Sissi, a suburb of Garu in Northern Ghana. She was born with physical disability to Duut Konle and Laady Konle,both of whom were peasant farmers .In view of her disability she was never sent to school as she suffered from parental neglect; her parents did not see the need to enrol her in school because they felt she had nothing to offer. She was stigmatized and treated with outright contempt by her family and community members. Indeed, she was utterly hopeless and lived under perpetual misery and poverty……….
Case Story of Hawa Issifu
Hawa Issifu, aged 37 lives in Karateshie community in the Tempane District of Northern Ghana. She was born without any impairment but later in life had her spinal cord damaged through a disease. All efforts to treat her condition medically proofed futile. Hawa’s husband, a peasant farmer exhausted all his resources in search of a solution which never succeeded. In view of this, Hawa was always indoors, helpless and dejected. He family and community apparently treated her with contempt due to the negative perceptions that they held about people with disability. She was viewed as burden since she was not productive but had to depend on the family to survive.
Case Story of Kugsabla Community Savings & Loans Association
The Kugsabla Community Savings and Loans Association is a self-help group of persons with disabilities that was formed and trained by the CBR programme in the year 2020. The group has a total membership of 25(8male, 17 female). The age range of members of the group is 25 to 50 and they made up of people with disabilities with varying religious, economic and social backgrounds.