P3C Aceh P3C Aceh

Non government charity organisation helping amputees in Aceh after the tsunami

Our Plans

The Aceh Disabled Rehabilitation Centre (P3C-Aceh) has been set up to provide:

  • follow up care for tsunami amputees (and others)
  • accessibility to appropriate health services
  • options for new livelihood by training and financial support
  • formation of an association which will enable their voice to be heard in the larger community
  • equality for male and female amputees
  • support with costs of education for amputee children or children of amputees where appropriate
  • links with organisations working with disabled in other areas.

Since January 2005 extensive efforts have been made by this team of Acehnese healthcare professionals and volunteers to ensure that the amputees will be self sufficient and able to work again.
 


Prior to the East Asian tsunami, the facilities to support disabled were very limited in Aceh.

In the capital, Banda Aceh, there was only one prosthetic workshop, at the Zainoel Abidin Hospital, which was destroyed by the tsunami.

Facilities available in Medan, in the next province, are not easily accessible for the disabled from Aceh, most being too poor to pay the cost of travel.

Even so the facilities there, for prosthetics, are not of international standard.