If quality of life for healthy Malawian children is low, quality of life for children with severe mobility issues can be dire.
They are largely ‘abandoned’ to the floor or the ground unless a guardian can carry them on their backs, which in turn creates health problems for mums and other guardians, particularly as their children grow.
These children have limited, if any, social lives, unable to meet or play with friends, and few will be able go to school because of the dependency on others for mobility. The generosity of KTCT supporters in funding bespoke wheelchairs, robust enough to cope with conditions in rural Malawi andl made locally, gives some of the children in these circumstances, and their families, a better quality of life, may even allow a child to go to school, and provides much needed and greatly valued employment at the hospital workshop in one of the poorest nations of the World.
On behalf of the children and their families who benefit in this way, and also those in the workshop, a very big zikomo kwambiri (thank you very much) to all KTCT supporters for your generosity!
Gordon Cowie M.B.E.
Founder and Chair of Trustees
Friends of Sick Children in Malawi