In the "Valley of Gods", discover and follow the progress of the Handimachal programme for special-need children in Kullu (Himachal Pradesh, India).
URGENT - Our association is urgently looking for an experienced occupational therapist liable to volunteer for a 2 to 5 month period, as soon as possible after 15 January 2012. The volunteer will work in very close cooperation with the local team (physiotherapist...
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No need to add much comments to this post, you will see from the sequence of Sanwi's pictures below how simple stimulation activities properly planned by our OT can enlighten a CP child' face within a few minutes... Magic, isn't it? Dominique, 3 September...
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Here I am again, back in Kullu valley since one week now. As usual I have set my “base camp” in a small cottage on the edge of the deodar cedar forest inhabited by the exquisite and holly temple of Hadimba goddess, in Dhungri village, just above Manali....
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Three important facts should be highlighted this month: The level of attendance has been quite good lately, during the summer holiday, with 7 to 9 children receiving treatment every day in the Handimachal Kullu Therapy Unit - let's hope that once schools...
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Last Thursday I received this photograph of Vaishali, a 7 year old CP girl we have been taking care of since December 2009 (Evert, you will like this picture, I am sure!). I love Vaishali's smiling face, this ray of happiness and energy she is throwing...
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In order to give you a glimpse of what happens in the Handimachal Unit on a daily basis, I have requested Mayur, our new physiotherapist, to introduce part of his activity in relation to some selected children who are representatives of the many disability...
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On 20 April, I published a post on the French blog to relate the generous and altruistic initiative organised by one of my French friends, Jacques Crespy (whom I met during my first visit in the Himalayas in 1998) on his retirement party: instead of receiving...
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This title may strike you as familiar: just one year ago I used the same phrase to introduce the post published on this blog in May... No news has been posted since my visit to Kullu in March 2011: not that nothing has happened in our small disability...
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This is a (late) translation of a text posted on the French blog on 21 March 2011 28 February, around 5 am, the night is black and freezing cold… The night bus between Delhi and Kullu just broke a record, covering the distance in just 11 hours instead...
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At the time I am posting this text, Catriona Helliwell's six month mission as a volunteering occupational therapist in the Handimachal Kullu Therapy Unit is already over since more than two weeks, as she lef Kullu on 3rd March 2011. She has since been...
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