Home visiting with Mama Kitenge, community based rehabilitation fieldworker, Tanzania : families with disabled children at Dar es Salaam, December 97

MILES, M

Publication Date 

1997
8 p

A morning in the poorer parts of Dar es Salaam is described, during which Mama Kitenge visits families with children having mental and other disabilities and works with these children and their caregivers

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Keywords 

Disability and community; community; family & caregivers; Disability and social diversity; functional limitation: cognitive/ intellectual; functional limitation: mobility; Research; data collection; Education; inclusive teaching & learning materials; Health; diseases: non-communicable diseases (NCD); epilepsy; systems: health workforce; Rehabilitation; community-based rehabilitation; therapeutic (treatment)

Regional Focus 

Africa (AFRO)

Country focus 

Tanzania

Language 

English

Type of material 

text

Content type 

case studies