News updates for Medical Camps ↓

Stage 2 of the medical camps, which were counselling sessions for workshop participants parents has now been completed.

The counselling for parents and caregivers took the form of group discussions.  Each parent/caregiver was asked to bring along one member of their community who could share in the exercise.  This is the first time since Sunera’s inception that it had an exercise like this, where parents and caregivers were given the opportunity to share their issues and receive advice from a professional counsellor. 

The counsellor introduced parents and caregivers to innovative methods which help them to communicate with their children more effectively on a day to day basis, which in turn would result in a more happy and peaceful home environment for children and caregivers alike.

This programme also endeavoured to change attitudes of communities as large by raising awareness of important community players such as Social Service Officers, Public Health Inspectors and Grama Niladharis. 

Approximately 1000 parents benefited from this project, which has raised awareness amongst parents, caregivers and the community at large as to how we can all interact more effectively with persons living with disability.

We wish to thank Sarvodaya for its time, resources, doctors and unstinting support with regard to this project.

The medical camp initiative that Sunera has embarked on with Sarvodaya has entered its second phase.  It has also expanded its scope of work by now offering medical counselling to parents with disabled children, thereby, giving these parents support and tools with which they are better able to deal with their disabled children and the challenges they face by virtue of having a disabled child.

Parents’ counselling is now complete in the Kurunegala District and commences in Galle and Akuressa this weekend (commencing 7th February 2009).

 Below, a doctor talks to a parent and workshop participant from the Dehiwela workshop…

Parent’s counselling time table (2009) - all sessions take place from 9.00am to 3.00pm

Nikaweritiya - 31st January

Horombawa - 1st February

Chilaw - 3rd February

Bingiriya - 4th February

Akuressa - 4th FEbruary

Galle - 8th February

Anuradhapura - 15th February

Galnewa - 16th February

Anamaduwa - 21st February

Horagolla - 22nd February

Panadura - 23rd February

Daraga Town - 4th March

Bandarawela - 7th March

Welimada - 8th march

Badulla - 9th March

Talawa - 14th March

Galewela - 15th March

Denipitiya - 20th March

Matara - 21st March

IMaduwa - 22nd March

Dehiwela - 29th March

Maharagama - 30th march

Puttalam - 4th April

Pannala - 5th april

Negombo - 9th April

Kurunegala - 10th April

Mawanella - 19th april

Mahiyanganaya  - 20th April

Horana - 26th April

Sunera, in collaboration with Sarvodaya, with funding from the Jewish Joint Distribution Council, has set up medical camps for all our workshops across the country. Every Sunera participant will be examined by a doctor, who will then register them with the medical camp programme. These participants are issued with a referral card which entitles them to medical attention and/or medication with their local doctor/hospital.