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  • Rejaul Karim, 40 fractured his neck after slipping while carrying a heavy load on his head. He is a day labourer and will not be able to return to his occupation. He should be able to walk with a cane and will receive vocational training to run a small shop in front of his house. His wife Nasma Begum is by his side. ..This photograph won first prize in a photo competition organized by the World Health Organization on the themes of Health and Disability in 2002.....Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Paralysed man in wheelchair and wife..Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Young boy paralysed from the legs down on a long trolley...Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • A young British volunteer assists paralysed patients in long trolleys with an improvised bowling game. This practice will improve their coordination and helps their recovery. Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • A woman at the Gonakbari women’s centre plays catch to improve her coordination with volunteers from a local theatre group...Location: Gonakbari women’s centre, Savar, Dhaka....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • A boy suffering from cerebral palsy enjoys a pony ride at CRP’s Special Needs school. It is proven that positive contact with animals is beneficial to the sick, disabled and injured...Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Children suffering from cerebral palsy at Savar’s Special Needs school. These children are often prevented from attending normal schools where their affliction is seen as disruptive. The teachers at the Special Needs school have all received special training and provide learning methods and exercises suitable to the childrens’ needs...Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • A teacher helps a boy suffering from cerebral palsy to play with a toy at Savar’s Special Needs school. These children are often prevented from attending normal schools where their affliction is seen as disruptive. The teachers at the Special Needs school have all received special training and provide learning methods and exercises suitable to the childrens’ needs...Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • A teacher helps a boy suffering from cerebral palsy to draw at Savar’s Special Needs school. These children are often prevented from attending normal schools where their affliction is seen as disruptive. The teachers at the Special Needs school have all received special training and provide learning methods and exercises suitable to the childrens’ needs...Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • The women at the Gonakbari Women’s centre have become paralysed in several ways: whether from illness, accidents, or violence they are often seen as a burden by their families and can be rejected. At the centre they receive vocational training in an activity that is suitable to their abilities and condition, this helps them to reintegrate their families and be perceived as worthy members...Location: Gonakbari women’s centre, Savar, Dhaka....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • A woman at the Gonakbari women’s centre serves a customer at the centre’s tea shop. This provides the centre with an income and gives the women training...Location: Gonakbari women’s centre, Savar, Dhaka....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Women at the Gonakbari women’s centre enjoying a photo album..Location: Gonakbari women’s centre, Savar, Dhaka....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Sophie Bishop is a British voluntary physiotherapy teacher. She is briefing her final year students who are studying for a degree in physiotherapy at CRP about what they are going to look at and what they had covered previously during their practical placement at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. ....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Sophie Bishop, on the right, a British voluntary physiotherapy teacher is helping a patient with the assistance of a first year student..Location: Dhaka Medical College Hospital....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Maren Sandmann a German volunteer physiotherapist is giving advice to a paraplegic rickshaw driver who fractured his spine in an accident, and to his wife...Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.......In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Maren Sandmann a German volunteer physiotherapist is massaging a paraplegic rickshaw driver who fractured his spine in an accident. The driver's wife is helping her...Location: CRP’s main site in Savar, Dhaka.....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Mohua, in a wheelchair on the right is CRP's assistant director....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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  • Poppy, Valerie’s adopted daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy surrounded by classmates....In the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh there is an organisation called CRP (Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed) that is giving new hope to the country’s disabled. Founded more than twenty years ago by Valerie Taylor, CRP’s coordinator, the centre looks after people from all walks of life. Rich and poor alike are brought in to receive treatment after an accident or an injury that would normally spell permanent disability. Thanks to the help and treatment they receive many of the patients are able to pursue their lives almost normally. By learning new skills during their stay at the centre they are able to support themselves and are no longer seen as a burden by their families. ..In addition the centre has a section for children with special needs, a women’s section and a university for training future physiotherapists and occupational therapists to degree standard...My overall impression of this organisation was a very positive one. The environment was pleasant and uplifting despite some of the patients’ suffering. The volunteers worked harmoniously with the local staff, sharing their expertise and developing useful projects...Photographer: Andrew Wheeler By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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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 By photographer Andrew Wheeler
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