 Introduction
Eden Centre for Disabled Children (ECDC) {formerly
‘Eden Handicap Service Centre (EHSC)’, Yangon} is the first
non-government, non-profit charity organization for physically and
intellectually disabled children irrespective of race, religion and
nationality. It was established by dedicated people in April 2000 at
Yangon, Myanmar to meet the urgent and great needs in this specific
field.
Background
Although there are still no authentic statistics on
the extent of the disabled population in Myanmar it is generally
conceded that about 10% of the population is affected in one way or the
other. Among many types of disability physically disabled people
constitute about 2% of the population in Myanmar. According to this
bench figure it is estimated that there are more than one million
physically disabled people in Myanmar today.
Many of these people do not received proper service
provisions in every sphere of their life. There is only one special
school for physically and mentally disabled children, ‘School for
Disabled Children (SDC)’, under Department of Social Welfare until today
and our ‘Eden Centre’ is the first private centre in this specific field
in the country.
As a pioneer centre it is always trying to provide
not only service but also disseminating disabled related knowledge and
other essentials skills according to ‘Social Model of Disability’. We
hope that In future the centre will be the main resource centre for
disabled people in the country. |
