Story - Cerebral Palsy Centre Opens

During 2007, our new children's Cerebral Palsy Centre held its official opening ceremony. Attended by local officials and families whose children are treated at the centre, more than 100 guests joined the celebrations and were fed in traditional Central Asian style! The centre can treat up to 30 children with cerebral palsy, and is the first in the whole region.

Contact us if you'd like to work at the Cerebral Palsy Centre in your professional capacity of occupational therapist, physiotherapist, special needs children's teacher, pediatric doctor or nurse. Download an Enquiry Form, and return it to us at uk@peopleintl.org, to make further enquiries about this special project.

Some sobering information about this country -

• Life expectancy at birth - 46 years
• Average income is $300 per person, and this includes income from poppy production.
• 71% of entire population over 15 cannot read or write (91% of all rural women are illiterate).
• Three out of five girls do not go to school.
• Life expectancy is 45 years.
• Highest maternal mortality rate in the world (1 death per 1700 babies born)
• 25% of babies do not live until their 5th birthday.
• 19 physicians per 100,000 people.
• Click here for a BBC photojournal on maternal mortality in South Asia

For more Opportunities to work in Central Asia, click here, we'd love to hear from you.