Help impact is happy to award a grant to the UK-based charity St Gregory’s Foundation on a project to support disabled children in Calarashi, an hour from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. St Gregory’s Foundation works with Dorintsa, the centre for disabled and autistic children and young people in Calarashi. The centre was founded in 2001 by parents of a child with cerebral palsy.
In Calarashi children with special needs often face:
- Insufficient psychological and physical support to cover the needs of children with disabilities
- Lack of accessibility in general educational institutions
- Lack of social services and rehabilitation centres at district and local levels
- Delayed diagnosis and referrals.
The awarded funds will help at least 30 seriously disabled children to access physical, cognitive and speech therapy at the only centre in the region of Calarash. They will be able to socialise and communicate with their peers and reach their best potential. They will benefit from social integration and greater independence. The beneficiaries of this project are children with DOWN syndrome, infantile cerebral palsy, undeveloped speech level, autistic spectrum disorder, motor deficiency and learning disabilities.
The aim of the project is to improve the children’s:
- Self-care and personal hygiene skills
- Oral communication skills – children usually to improve their active and passive vocabulary
- Management of emotions and behaviour
- Muscle strength, development of upper and lower fine and gross motor skills, relaxing of hypertonic muscles of the upper and lower limbs
- Metabolism, energy level and other core capacities.
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