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Strong legs
Posted on 14th July 2016 by Chris Jones
While running a health clinic in a remote village earlier this year, we came across a family whose son had an unfortunate accident. When he was 15 years old he had fallen out of a tree. There was no healthcare in the village and he injured his spine and since that time has been unable to walk. Unfortunately, shortly after this his dad passed away and his family were really struggling. Despite this, his mother and auntie have done an amazing job looking after him and they brought him to see us in a rather unique wheelchair!
The boy was now 17 years old and hadn’t walked for 2 years. We spent some time doing some basic physiotherapy including massaging and exercising his legs. After about 30 minutes, we saw amazingly that his legs, which were pale and cold to start with, started to have some blood come back to them. Even though he gained just a small amount of movement in this time, he was amazed.
We gave him some exercises to strengthen his legs and asked him to make a walking stick. As he and his family left, he told us that the next time we come back his legs would be so strong that he would follow us wherever we go!
What a privilege to be part of this boy’s life, to share the little that we have, but yet see such hope come to him.
If you would like to support our Community Health Worker project, click here. Thank you for being part of the journey!
Walk for Water!
Posted on 30th June 2016 by Chris Jones
To celebrate Bryan's 70th Birthday, he and Martin will be following in Wainwright's footsteps trekking 200 miles coast to coast, from St Bees in the Lake District to Robin Hood Bay near Whitby.
He writes "Having had the privilege to meet Dr Sasa and learn about the work of Health and Hope through Coast Family Church in Bude, I'm delighted that we can use this occasion to support his work in Myanmar."
The route will take Bryan and Martin 11 days to complete, starting out on the 5th July with Bryan's wife kindly heading up the support team!
Bryan started off with a fundraising target of £2,500 which he has already surpassed. He is hoping to help us raise money towards finishing off the construction of the hydro-electric work, which will bring clean drinking water and electricity to the clinic, training centre and village. We are really grateful to Bryan and Martin for using their time so generously and for the significant contribution that this will make to bring clean running water to the local community.
If you would like to support them and donate to their incredible fundraising efforts, please click here.
Well done Bryan and Martin, we really look forward to hearing more about your exploits!
Running water at last (well nearly!)
Posted on 28th May 2016 by Chris Jones
Over the last few months we've been hard at work on a project in Chin State to bring hydro-electricity and a clean water supply to our Community Health Worker (CHW) training centre and Clinic.
This has taken multiple explorations into the jungle, assessments of five rivers, the hard work of the whole community and the laying down of over 3 miles of pipework and cabling.
We are delighted to report that water has now started to defy gravity and is flowing up and not down the Chin Hills!
The hydro-electric generator alone took 5 days to dismantle, 3 days to transport and 5 days to reassemble once in-situ. We've also had to cut down enough trees to make 200 pylons to carry the electricity cable.
The project is about 75% complete and we're still looking for ongoing support. If you would like to help us complete this project, do get in touch with our team on info@healthandhope.org or donate to this project here.
