Name: Dela
Born (approximately): 1965
Transferred to Hand in Hand: 2003
From: Psychiatric Hospital Accra
Further information:
-Parents unknown, unknown where he was found.
-Intellectual handicap. Mannerisms from living lifelong among psychotic men.
-Caregiver: James
-Financial adoption: Lucie Slangen Bosman, Holland. Christine, Fam. Muhl and Daniel from Germany.
Dela
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‘Wash the Car’. When you hear these words the chance is great that Dela will be around. Dela is crazy about washing cars and not only washing them, he is in love with cars. That’s the reason that he likes stay near the gates and open them for cars to drive inside our project-land. He likes papers and books and seems to study them for hours till cars or other events divert his attention. Dela is the oldest inhabitant of the Hand in Hand Community. His age is unknown, but most likely he has been born somewhere between 1960 and 1965. When he joined the Hand in hand community in 2003, he did little more than walking circles around our territory and run away to town. Nowadays Dela works at the sheltered workshop where he is a somewhat distracted worker. He is less productive than the others as he may be wrapped up in inner fantasies (cars?). Most of the staff at hand in Hand calls him: ‘Professor Dela’. He started that nickname himself…when Bob goes to school for his classes Dela likes to join, takes papa’s schoolbag and tells everybody: “I am Professor Dela”. |