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This book describes the development of a differentiated network of disability care in a developing rural area consisting of a number of townships in South Africa. The network includes residential care for abandoned, neglected and orphaned children with physical and/or intellectual disabilities; semi-residential care in group homes for young adults with a disability and daily care in day care centres for families with a disabled child in the surrounding townships; and home-based care for families with a disabled child at their homes. Then an analysis is provided about how home-based care is carried out in two other African countries, Uganda and Zimbabwe, by a non-governmental organisation in The Netherlands, aiming at direct child assistance and capacity development in developing countries. Finally, in-service training activities are described that are necessary for the transition from a residential nursing-oriented facility to a community-based care organisation.

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Adri Vermeer, PhD, emeritus Professor in Special Education, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, advisor board of trustees, Sizanani Chrildress Home, Bronkhorstspruit, South-Africa; research advisor Liliane Foundation, s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Zsoka Magyarszeky, Conductor, MBA, general manager Sizanani Childrens Home, Bronkhorstspruit, South-Africa (till 2012), recently senior conductor Stick n Step, a community service centre for children with cerebral palsy in Wirral (Liverpool), UK.

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