From right to left: Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator; Poppy, Valerie’s adopted daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy; a helper. ..Valerie Taylor, a physiotherapist by training, first came to Bangladesh or East Pakistan as it was known 32 years ago on a VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) placement. She helped at a mission hospital in the Hill tracts region. After returning to England for two years she came back to Bangladesh in 1975 to work at a government hospital. With the help of...
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From right to left: Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator; Poppy, Valerie’s adopted daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy; a helper. ..Valerie Taylor, a physiotherapist by training, first came to Bangladesh or East Pakistan as it was known 32 years ago on a VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) placement. She helped at a mission hospital in the Hill tracts region. After returning to England for two years she came back to Bangladesh in 1975 to work at a government hospital. With the help of associates she opened a specialized centre in 1979 in government concrete sheds to help paraplegics, the group she wanted to work with. Indeed 10 percent of Bangladesh’s population of 130 million are thought to suffer from some form of disability...Poppy’s story is one of success. After being rejected from the local secondary school because of her disability she was readmitted by the headmaster after having spent two years at CRP’s special needs school. He was impressed with the progress the children were making there. Poppy enjoys the support of her classmates and staff, she is following her studies at the “normal” school successfully...Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler
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