Here are a couple of pictures from my first evaluation. This young lady is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of a bullet wound. She lives in a nice part of town, in a large house up on a hill. Unfortunately, the once desirable hillside, is now the cause of many of her problems. Right now she needs to be carried in and out of the house and down the hill to the car if she wants to go out into the community. She can wheel around her house but it's a tight squeeze to fit through the door frames, and because she can't get into the bathroom, she has to take a shower in the backyard.
The bathroom is a hopeless situation, but we will build her a shower in the backyard, complete with a curtain to give her more privacy. We will also widen the door frames so that she can move around the house more easily and build her a ramp so that she can get off the front balcony independently. Getting to the car is more of a challenge as it's a long way down, but we're looking at the possibility of either building her a long winding ramp, or making a driveway so that the car can come to her. Right now we're negotiating with contractors and her uncle who owns the house, but hopefully the work will start soon and I will still be in Haiti to see the end result!
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