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Grarbet Project
Tel. 251-11-662 2538 (A.A)
251-46-115 0183 (Butajira)
251-46-441 3730 (Zeway)
Fax. 251-11-661 3633 (A.A)
P. O. Box 15824
Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
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Objectives of Grarbet Rehab |
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Grarbet
is a project dedicated to the rehabilitation of persons with
epilepsy, post polio paralysis, hard of hearing and the visually
impaired in rural sub-districts (Woredas) of the Eastern Gurage
and Silti Zones of the Southern Nations Nationalities Peoples
Region. The project has recently expanded to the Woredas of East
Shoa of the Oromia Region.One of the centers is located 135 kilometers
and the other is 160 Kilometers away from Addis in Zeway. |
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Objectives
- To establish a community-based rehabilitation service for
the disabled,
- To rehabilitate the physically disabled with physiotherapy,
the provision of aids and appliances as well as corrective
surgery,
- To provide ophthalmologic services to patients with eye diseases
and visual impairment,
- To prevent trachoma through effective use of the SAFE strategy
(Surgery, Antibiotics, Face Washing, Environmental Sanitation).
- To provide optometry services through the production and
provision of low cost spectacles,
- To provide medical treatment and counseling to persons affected
by epilepsy,
- To provide skill training the physically handicapped,
- To participate in the national polio eradication program
in collaboration with local health centers, and to conduct
relevant research in collaboration with local and international
institutions engaged in health related research
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