CENTRE FOR HANDICAPPED NEWSLETTER 3rd Edition July – Sep 2022

081 24 20 721 074 06 27 888 [email protected] No.228, Digana Rd, Kundasale

www.cfhsrilanka.org

Approved charitable organization under the section 1 (a) (ii) of Fifth Schedule of the Inland Revenue Act No. 24 of 2017 Sri Lanka

Weneedyour help to provide mobility devices to fellow human beings. Please join usandshare in thisbeautifulexperienceofgivinga newlease of life to those who despair.

If you know of any underprivileged people in Sri Lanka in need of artificial limbs or other mobility devices, please let us know so that we can help them. You can also support our work by donating a limb or by contributing to our Endowment Fund in your own name or in that of a loved one, or by supporting our work in cash or in kind.

LEAD STORIES Rotary District 3220 Governor’s Visit to CFH On 1st of July 2022 District

Governor

Pubudu

De

Zoysa, accompanied by members

of the Rotary Club of Kandy visited the Centre for Handicapped for the first time.

The District Governor

was given

a guided tour of the

Centre’s facilities and met with its staff

and some patients. He

presented

artificial limbs to two

child recipients. Rtn.

Pubudu’s

comment in our visitor’s book reads: “It is so amazing to see the work of CFH – Thank you Rotarian’s and friends of RC Kandy for your wonderful humanitarian efforts to make a “smile” on children.

HELP THEM WALK AGAIN This Month Permanent Funds • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The Lucky Land Permanent Fund Brough Family Permanent Fund Cecil Greve Memorial Fund Mr. Raj Sivananthan Permanent Fund Mrs. Jegatheesan Vijayaletchumy Permanent Fund Mr. M. Selvaraj Permanent Fund Dr. Rohantha Athukorala Permanent Fund Mrs. Phyllis Meynert Memorial Fund Mrs. Ayesha Imbuldeniya Wijerathne Familyand Friends Permanent Fund Mrs. Padmini Wijethunga PermanentFund Mrs. Dweepika Achela GodigamuwaPermanent Fund Mr. Sena Kalpage & Mrs. Pushpa Kalpage Permanent Fund Neelanga Nandisena Memorial Fund The Watson Family Cornwall PermanentFund Mr. George Hemachandra Memorial Fund Suraj and Kalpana Perera Permanent Fund Mrs. Esa Ratnayaka Memorial Fund Mr. A. J. J. Daniels Memorial Fund Rev. Fr. Bernard Molligoda Memorial Fund Mrs. Nalini Mathias and Family PermanentFund Mr. Paul Naylor Permanent Fund Don Nishan Ratnayaka Memorial Fund Mr. and Mrs. J. Dharmaraj MemorialFund

In 2007 the Centre for Handicapped set up an Endowment Fund to help meet the constant demand for artificial limbs for the needy. Endowments in perpetuity, comprising lump sum payments of Rs. 150,000/- each are carefully invested and the interest is used to provide limbs to a number of recipients each year. Donors receive details about the recipients and how they lost limbs, as well as photographs of them both before and after the fitting of the limb. The Funds are either Permanent Funds or Memorial Funds. Each bears the name chosen by the donor, often in memory of dear departed family members. During this Quarter 26 recipients received limbs through these endowments and we were happy to welcome many of the generous donors to the Centre to meet “their” recipients and hand over their new limbs.

Cecil Greve Memorial Fund

Neelanga Nandisena Memorial Fund

The Lucky Land PermanentFund

Brough Family Permanent Fund

Dr. Rohantha Athukorala Permanent Fund Mrs. Phyllis Meynert Memorial Fund

Mr. Raj Sivananthan Permanent Fund

Mrs. Ayesha Imbuldeniya Wijerathne Family and Friends Permanent Fund

Mr. M. Selvaraj Permanent Fund

Mrs. Jegatheesan Vijayaletchumy Permanent Fund

Don Nishan Ratnayaka Memorial Fund

Suraj and Kalpana Perera Permanent Fund

Mrs. Esa Ratnayaka Memorial Fund

HELP THEM WALK AGAIN PERMANENT FUND Mrs. Padmini Wijethunga Permanent Fund

Mr. Paul Naylor Permanent Fund

The Watson Family Cornwall Permanent Fund

Mr. Sena Kalpage & Mrs. Pushpa Kalpage Permanent Fund

Mr. A. J. J. Daniels Memorial Fund

Rev. Fr. Bernard Molligoda Memorial Fund

Mrs. Dweepika Achela Godigamuwa Permanent Fund

Mr. George Hemachandra Memorial Fund

Mrs. Nalini Mathias and Family Permanent Fund

Mr. and Mrs. J. Dharmaraj Memorial Fund

Mrs. Kokila Gamage

Mr. Mahinda Weerakoon

OTHER DONATIONS Mrs. Subashini

Many people visit the Centre to make very welcome donations and we thank them most warmly for their kind donations. Their generosity makes an immense difference in the lives of needy recipients.

Ms. Methsani Ellauda

Mr. A. Abeywickrama & Family

Mrs. M. Devika

Unichela Pvt Ltd.

Mr. Chandana Ekanayaka

WIDER HORIZONS

Scholarship Programme

The scholarship programme carried out with the Zonta Club of Kandy has supported 27 poor school children in a local school over the past three years. This was possible because ofthe generosity of our donors: Zontians Jeeva Rajan, Deanne Dallas, RoseMarie Greve, and Alison Gray, as well as Mr. Gehan Bandaranayake. We are very grateful to them for agreeing to fund and support the children for another year

PARTNERS IN ACTION Staff training program on the rights of persons with disabilities. As part of a Rotary-funded project on the rights of disabled people, a two day awareness programme was held on the 17th & 18th of June 2022 for CFH Staff. The programme covered the topics - Disability Models, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons of Disabilities & National Policy on Disability, and Business Facilitation. The workshop was intended to enhance the awareness of the rights of disabled people,

OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICE

Prosthetics The Centre initially fabricated aluminum limbs that subsequently switched into HDPE (High Density Poly Ethylene) mobile limbs by using a more modern technology. This apart, the Centre has now introduced ICRC Polypropylene technology, which is a modular endoskeleton design and more comfortable for the limb users.

Orthotics Since January 2006, the CFH has been fabricating lightweight custom-made polypropylene orthoses for people with physical disabilities brought on by Polio, Muscle Paralysis and Arthritis.

Physiotherapy Services The Centre for Handicapped offers physiotherapy services before and after the fitting of prostheses. It employs trained Rehabilitation Therapy assistants working under the guidance of a qualified physiotherapist. The department is well equipped with manual exercise facilities. It is now also open to a wider clientele.

Audiometry Screening Unit Audiometry Screening Unit provides free complete screening and testing of ears for identification of possible condition and requirement for the use of hearing aids and our beneficiaries are provided with free hearing aids.

Ophthalmology The newly equipped ophthalmology unit provided complete screening and eye tests with a view to checking for cataracts and other eye diseases and providing spectacles.

ANALYSIS OF RECIPIENTS DURING THE QUARTER GENDER

DEVICE

Female 27% Orothosis 60%

Male 73%

Prosthesis 40%

Cause of Disability Vascular 3% Accident 21%

Sheel Attack 20%

Cancer 2% Tumer 2%

Diabetic 13%

Landmine 10%

Congenital Deformity 29%

Our Vision Our Mission

Help Them Walk Again

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CENTRE FOR HANDICAPPED Location 228, Digana Road, Kundasale. Phone +94 812420721 Fax +94 812421930 WhatsApp +94 740627888 E-mail [email protected] Website

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• To be a Centre of excellence in the provision of artificial limbs and rehabilitation services to persons who need them.

• To enable persons who are physically handicapped, irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity, caste or status to lead near normal lives. • We need your help to provide mobility devices to fellow human beings. Please join us and share in this beautiful experience of giving a new lease of life to those who despair.

BANK DETAILS Centre for Handicapped 018010514484 Hatton National Bank PLC 7083018 HBLILKLX No. 01, Dalada Veediya, Kandy

About Us The Centre for Handicapped is a nonprofit, charitable organization registeredand approved by the Government of Sri Lanka under Registration No. MSS/7/8/NSPD/R/123 – Section 20 – of the “Protection of the Rights of Personswith Disabilities” – Act No. 28 of 1996. Centre for Handicapped is an approved charity by Gazette Notification No. 2144/23 of 09.10.2019.

The Centre has been working towards the rehabilitation of people with disabilities since 1971, under different names such as the Kandy Orthopedic Centre and the “Colombo Friend In Need Society, Kandy Branch.” It acquired its present identity as the “Centre for Handicapped” in 2001. The centre receives technical and financial support from national and international governmental and non-governmental bodies. It also receives funds through corporate and individualdonations.