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Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) CBR is the core programme of Navajeevana and remains at the heart of everything we do. Despite twenty years of dedicated work by Navajeevana, living with a disability in southern Sri Lanka is not easy. People with disability still face discrimination, stigma and poor services. The area has one of the highest levels of disability in the island, at 10 percent - due to a combination of poor infrastructure, the remote location of rural communities, and lack of understanding amongst ordinary people about the prevention and treatment of disabilities. As well as this, intermarriage and incest is still widepread in this area, causing higher than average numbers of genetic and birth defects. Navajeevana’s programme of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) seeks to reach these unreached members of society. The CBR programme has at its heart the ethos that a disabled person experiences the same hopes, fears, worries and pleasures as any other person. People with disabilities are fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, daughters and sons, just like their peers and community around them. Trained volunteers work alongside Navajeevana’s specialist field officers in the districts of Hambantota and Matara to identify those most in need of our services. The Navajeevana approach is a holistic one, taking the disabled client right through from early identification to treatment, education rehabilitation, and ultimately to full rehabilitation – where the person is participating equally in a non discriminating society and is economically independent. The CBR unit is made up of the core CBR field unit, the mental health unit, the education unit, with its four schools for children with special needs, and the livelihood income generation unit. This team is supported by a cadre of committed volunteers and family carers.
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