Name: Purchase of therapy material
Donors / Partners: Bread for the World (BfdW); in cooperation with EDEC’s social service spin-off Habitat for Equality, Achievements and Development (HEAD)
Implementation area: Kutaisi, Samtredia, Terjola (all Imereti), Saguramo (Mtskheta-Mtianeti), Zugdidi (Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti)
Implementation period: 01.05.2022 – 31.12.2022
Project budget: € 7.500
Part of the budget assigned to EDEC: € 7.500
Objective: Equipment of EDEC’s four day care centres (DCCs) and three speech therapy units with new toys and material for the better development of beneficiaries’ cognitive, emotional, social, and physical skills.
Target groups: children and adults with disabilities and impediments in Georgia, HEAD’s therapy staff members
Achieved results:
- Development of an encompassing list of toys, books, sport and art equipment based on consultation with external experts in the field and EDEC’s DCC and therapy staff
- Purchase of sports equipment and furniture such as a Swedish wall and parallel bars
- Purchase of therapy equipment such as a ball pool and a tatami
- Purchase of sewing machines and material for art therapy and the production of own toys
- Purchase of speech therapy equipment such as books, memory games and similar
- Encompassing instructions of the DCC and therapy staff in the new toys, tools and equipment to ensure the best possible usage for the beneficiaries’ development