Tuesdays and CBR 2

I have already mentioned that I spend each Tuesday at one of the community based rehabilitation centres. CCD has three different community based centres that are located in a few of the different provinces. The staff work together with the families to provide support and care to children with a range of different disabilities. This is a way in which the families are still able

Each Tuesday I make my way down to Major (the shopping centre down the road) at 7.50 am  and wait for the staff that go to CBR2 to come and pick me up. It's about a 1/2 hour drive to get to the day care centre that we

In the mornings we stay at the day care centre while one of the staff members goes around to pick up all the children. Some of them get dropped off in the morning so usually we take out some toys to keep them occupied until everyone comes. 

Once everyone is there there is usually an activity that the staff have planned for us to do and I help out with that. Sometimes we do some painting or drawing and I help out as much as I can. It different here in that the staff organise a lot more of the activities and as a volunteer I help out rather than organise things. 

What I can do as a speechie here is a bit limited, there are no feeding problems and what I can do with communication and language is limited because of the differences in the language. Still I do what I can and when playing with the kids I try to get them all involved and model how to play with them... 

When the lego blocks come out we always seem to end up building a really big tall tower...
it always falls down and breaks a lot, but...

we get there in the end...
there might be some engineering blood in me after all

The staff at CBR2 are really lovely. Almost every week they buy me a drink (one week it was this delicious green fanta drink that was lovely and sweet), and they love to have fun, I have had my face painted, sticky things stuck to my back and arms, and sprayed all over in water. I really do enjoy it there.

xxx