CBR STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (COMBRESA)-Kyambogo Univeristy Executive Handover ceremony

Out going president: Adrian Dudu 2010

In coming President : Owa Kenneth 2011

OBJECTIVES OF COMBRESA ASSOCIATION

• Create a body of CBR members.
• Increase knowledge on CBR and disability
• Increase knowledge base in disability and CBR
• Increase knowledge on CBR and disability
• Increase knowledge base in disability and CBR

ACTIVITIES OF COMBRESA

• Mobilise all members pursing courses in CBR and those who have completed
• Raising awareness on disability causes, management, and prevention and how CBR can be integrated into development thorough the media, radio, TV, newspapers, brochures. Leaflets, workshops, Seminars and exhibition.
• Carrying out research on the number of Persons With Disabilities rehabilited, educated, extent of awareness on disability and CBR.
• Identify existing disability
• Lobbying and advocacy through identification of natural and international policies on disability and rehabilitations

VISION OF COMBRESA

Promote sustainable development

GOAL

Promote CBR as strategy to improve lives of Persons with disabilities

ACHIEVEMENTS OF COMBRESA

• Welcoming note at the faculty
• Associations T shirts
• Visited The Rehabilitation Centre in Kireka, Kampala

CHALLENGES FACED BY COMBRESA ASSOCIATION

• Failed to make a website for the Association

Your CBR Experiences

The aim of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) is to help people with disabilities, by establishing community-based programs for social integration, equalization of opportunities, and rehabilitation programs. The strength of CBR programs is that they can be made available in rural areas with limited infrastructure and are not restricted to professionals in healthcare, education, vocational or social services. Rather, CBR programs involve the people with disabilities themselves, their families and communities, as well as appropriate professionals.

Do you implement community based rehabilitation? If so, tell us about your work.