The Walk-A-Thon was organized by the Bangalore Physiotherapy Network (BPN). This was an event to bring physiotherapists and their beneficiaries together, creating an awareness about health. Physiotherapy as a whole is a vast subject and caters to different fields such as Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Neurology, Geriatrics and Disability. Therefore we at proVISION ASIA, who empower the ...
Meet Ramu aged 23 from a small village in Karnataka. He was affected with Polio at the age of 3. He works at a restaurant called ‘Kitchen Bells’ at Bangalore. A few months ago, Ramu crawled into our office to ask for assistance. proVISION ASIA donated a wheelchair which has helped him move around his ...
Meet Alphia a 14-year-old girl, one of five siblings. She has cerebral palsy and affected on her right side. She is able to walk and talk. She cannot eat with her right hand, she has to use her left hand. She is extremely shy. I noticed that whenever I asked her questions her mother would ...
Over the last 10 weeks, our physiotherapy unit has been a bustle of activity. Between weekly visits to the local government home for mentally challenged boys, frequent trips to assist with group and individual therapy at a school for special needs children, multiple house visits, and daily physio therapy patients our interns have been a ...
Normal’ is such a nonsense word, Yet, so often is our aim. An abstract concept so absurd Our efforts but in vain. Today, to teach children the importance, Each created person claims, We creatively took a glance How all are different yet the same. Lessons were taught through many means Through story, sport, and songs ...
Primo Levy was an Italian Jew who was sent to Auschwitz in the final year of World War II. While there, he risked his life to keep a diary. If the Nazis had caught him recording his experiences and thoughts, they would have killed him, but he was willing to take the risk because he ...
On Tuesday the 12th of July, most of the office staff went to two separate schools in nearby villages to screen the students for wheelchairs, walkers, or crutches. At the first school the staff and fellow interns were busy helping Esther, the physiotherapist, screen the new clients. Obviously, because of physical limitations, I couldn’t hop in this ...
