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Beyond Disability targets long-term, sustainable solutions to help create healthy communities, increase household income and work towards empowering people with disabilities.

Healthy Communities
In Cambodia, there is little awareness of the treatment available for disabilities and conditions such as club foot, mental illnesses and cleft palates frequently go untreated.

Beyond Disability raises awareness within the whole community about disability and provides counselling for families to help them cope with disability. Through home visits, children are taught essential life skills to help create independence and reduce the workload on the family.

For example, puzzles and games are used to help children develop both their fine and gross motor skills; physiotherapy and other exercises improve mobility; wheelchairs and walking frames are given to help increase independence; and referrals to health services ensure medical attention is received when needed.

Household Income
People living with a disability are able to access programs that develop livelihoods, provide vocational training and increase awareness of different ways people can provide for themselves and their families.

Beyond Disability has a small grants program to help people with disabilities access the funds needed to start a small business. Some participants have learned to make hammocks, repair motorbikes or electronics, or run a tailoring business to provide a steady income.This helps develop self-esteem and self-worth as they learn new skills to earn an income and contribute to their family and the wider community.

Education Support
Beyond Disability provides literacy and numeracy skills at home to help children with disabilities to prepare for attending mainstream school. Families are linked with school teachers and assisted with transport arrangements and the cost of school fees and supplies.

Once they begin school, children participate in a balance of home lessons, special classes at school and mainstream classes. Similarly, teachers of mainstream schools have regular training sessions to learn how to teach children with disabilities.

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