programs
Cheshire Services Ethiopia has three main facets of services
1. Short Term Institutional Care-Menagesha Rehabilitation Centre

The centre is located 20 km west of Addis Ababa the capital city. It provides medical rehabilitation. Surgery, plaster casting and physiotherapy treatment are required to rehabilitate polio victims. At the centre, pre and post operative care is provided. The annual capacity of the center is 150 and can accommodate 70 children at a time. The average length of stay at the center is 6 months.

 

 Cheshire Services Ethiopia has prosthetic and orthotic Center at Menagesha and Orthopedic workshops at Dire Dawa and Awassa towns. The Centers at Dire Dawa and Awassa were established to strategically serve the eastern and southern parts of the country respectively.

 
2. Mobile Outreach Program
The mobile Outreach program is aimed to follow rehabilitated children who returned home so that they will not regress to their former status of immobility. Disabled children and youths mainly victims of polio, are visited in their own localities to regularly assess and upgrade their appliances (crutches, braces, shoes and walking frames) every six months. New cases are also assessed and provided with rehabilitation aids on the spot in many instances, or in the more acute cases scheduled for admission to the Rehabilitation Center for corrective surgery. The Mobile Outreach team visits over 20 sites benefiting over 4000 children and you with disabilities.
3. Community Based Rehabilitation Program (CBR)

Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) program is a community development strategy in which Persons With Disabilities, parents and rehabilitation workers are involved in the rehabilitation process to improve the life of children with cross disabilities such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, developmental delay and multiple disabilities. The rehabilitation workers transfer Activity of Daily Living for the parents of children under the program. Skills such as proper positioning, simple exercise therapy, feeding, bathing, dressing and mobility orientation for visually impaired children and sign language for hearing impaired children are provided.

 
 

Cheshire CBR mainly focuses on rehabilitation of children with developmental disorder, physical and sensor of problems. It also provides socio-economic empowerment and livelihood support. CBR program is being implemented in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, Harar and Awassa.