Chausiku Ramadhan is 12 years old girl, lives in Mwembemkole
street in Bagamoyo district within Coastal region, Tanzania. She is a deafblind
from birth, born first among four children in the family. The name of the
father is Ramadhani Mohamed(37)years, he is a fisherman and the name of mother
is Tukae Jumbe (36). The mother is a
house wife but she has a food kiosk at the place she live rented two rooms.
Although there was a normal
delivery but she was not able to open eyes. Her parents sent Chausiku to local
medication and hospital during struggling for her vision and hearing abilities.
Unfortunately, lucky was not on her side. According to her mother, the cause of
Chausiku’s condition is unknown.
Chausiku,a congenitally
deafblind in the Community Based Rehabilitation CBR programme under support of
Sense International (T) was among the 12
deaf blind children identified in Bagamoyo district for the year 2011. The deafblind children are
more at risk environment. When TRACED identified Chausiku at first she could
not manage to walk, seat alone in a good posture, feed (eat) herself, and had a
sleepless at nights. That is she could
not have a daily living (ADL) skills. This
was a big challenge to Chausiku Ramadhani.
In 2011, Ms Batuli Seleman as a Community
Based Rehabilitation (CBR) volunteer she was assigned for her
rehabilitation with twice home visits in every week. The improvement is marked
since home visits started by TRACED
Chausiku is now able to
sleep at night because of keeping her tired during the day hours…’’remarks her
mother with joy. Chausiku’s parents are seeing their role in establishing the
child’s independence in the home environment for the day when the child is expected
for schooling. Her mother alongside with TRACED- Community Based Rehabilitation
Worker (CBW) is now struggling to teach
function skills (ADL) that would also be useful in the home and school
environment under inclusive approach introduced by FRORA Inclusive Day Care Centre.
In order to ensure that
Chausiku is being rehabilitation under the inclusive approach this early year
the family was advice by TRACED that the
two brothers (who are twins) to be enrolled at FRORA Inclusive Day Care Centre.
Challenges
which a facing Chausiku and her two brothers to attend regularly at FRORA Inclusive Day
Care Centre
·
During rainy season it is not possible to attend
because at present Chausiku and her two brother are being ferry by two motorcycles provided by Erikshjalpen in
2011.
·
Stigmatization of some people in Bagamoyo towards disabled children in the
community, this is even worse to the case of Chausiku Ramadhan who is a
deafblind Child. When there is no any family member to accompany the team of Chausiku and her two
twins brothers – Hussein and Hassan, that mean they will not attend to the
centre.
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