Speak in One Voice For Inclusion LSMHP Part 1 – Part 1 of a short Documentary on the Lesotho Society of Mentally Handicapped Persons. LSMHP is an organisation that was created by parents of people with an Intellectual Disability established since 1992. It focuses on advocacy in the area of legislation and policies to be inclusive of the needs of the person with an intellectual disability.It networks with government ministries and departments, Non-profit Organisations and institutions as a change agent for children with a disability. It educates the communities on different forms of abuse through its strong networking relations with the Child and Gender Protection Unit. It runs a Children Programme, Parents Programme, Youth Programme, and trains siblings. In the future the organisation wants to establish a Multipurpose Centre which will be used for training children with a severe disability, along with their parents on individualised stimulation programmes and Activities of daily living, along with parent to parent counselling. The LSMPH hopes to be able to outsource some multi-disciplinary staff to work hand in hand with parents. The centre will accomodate orphaned children and youths with an intellectual disability who are destitute and neglected by their families. All rights reserved – April 2009

 

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