Aims, Objectives and Target-groups for the Sheltered Workshop (update aug 2007 )

 

 

Aims and Objectives:

·      To provide occupational therapy to the growing children and young adults who are resident at the PCC Community. This will give them a sense of belonging, purpose and job-fulfillment as well as a wholesome daily routine.

·      To provide vocational training to the more gifted persons from within the residential community but also from without. We think of young adults with a mental handicap in the towns and villages of Nkoranza district and nearby. 

 

Targetgroups:

1.        Persons who permanently live at the PCC Hand in Hand Community.

2.         Persons with a mild to moderate mental handicap who apply from one of our towns and villages in the neighborhood, often these may be children who graduated from our special school in Nkoranza..

 

P.S.: group 2 concerns persons with a family, as opposed to the PCC residential children who are all homeless. We want to let the family continue to play an important role and continue to accept full responsibility for the child, e.g. in taking them for weekends and holidays, in contributing to their sick-fund, in providing foodstuffs and personal items for their child, and so on.

 

 

Criteria for acceptance Target group 1:

·          Able to gain from group-work and occupational therapy

·           No further selection on ability to learn (not in vocational training)

·           Unlimited number of persons and unlimited time-span. Might be a life long experience of occupational therapy if it is rewarding to the person involved..

 

 

Criteria for acceptance Target group 2

·          Over age of 16

·         Residents in Nkoranza town: only day-activities. Family has to escort person to and from the workplace to their home.

·         Persons from outside Nkoranza town reside in the dormitory and vacate during school holidays and selected weekends.

·         There are stricter selection criteria to persons of group 2 as they are entering a vocational training program and will be interviewed and put on probation by the coordinator of the program who eventually decides on their yes/no acceptance in the program.

 

 

 

Vocational Training program: Contents:

·          Basic household skills such a cleaning, laundry, bed-making, sweeping etc

·          Basic child care

·          Basic cooking and baking

·          Setting a table and serving food

·          Farming

·          Life-stock farming and donkey chart riding (selected few)

·          Making of bead-strings such as necklaces and hip-beads

·          Making of beads out of clay and other materials

·          Sewing

·          Tie-dye

·          Weaving