Education of poor disabled Children in Peru

Gustavo is a 07 year old boy with cerebral palsy. He has attended the center since he was 01 years old and since last year he has entered the education project.

He does not have enough strength to walk and this is aggravated by the overweight he has, his mother controls his food, but not being able to go out to come to therapy or go to his classes has made him sad and he wants to eat.

Since April Gustavo received attention through video calls and with the help of his mother does the exercises that the therapists indicate, but the family only has the cell phone of the older brother so that Gustavo and his brothers receive virtual classes and Many times the schedules intersect so the parents have to decide which of their children will use the cell phone. Since this month the older brother got a job and has to go out every day, for this reason Gustavo and his brothers can no longer enter virtual classes.

We managed to get him a cell phone with internet connection so that the family can use it for therapy and virtual classes for Gustavo and his brothers. The classes for Gustavo are difficult since he was just learning to read and write. The person in charge of the project is preparing a workbook to be able to continue with the objective of reading and writing, in addition to advising the mother on how to adapt the tasks they assigned in classes according to Gustavo's abilities.

Like Gustavo, 40% of our patients have difficulties accessing virtual classes because they do not have internet connection and the vast majority who have a cell connected to Internet have to buy internet packages every week in order to enter virtual classes.

It is a complicated situation, but we continue working so that our children continue to receive care and we try to adapt as best as possible to the current context.

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