What We Care For
Physiotherapy
Children presented with an opportunity to experience how to play on the jumping castle while their parents holding them. The children being exposed a different form of play with new friends.
Home Based Education Programme (HBEP)
The child with athetoid (involuntary movement) was counting using stones, showing the monitoring team what she had learned.
Capacity Building
Parents during the child protection workshop. Here the community mapping and networking exercise was being demonstrated to them by the facilitator.
How it all started
The Community Based Intervention (CBI) programme started in 1993 as a philanthropic project of the then British High Commissioner’s wife, Mrs. Archie Hinchcliffe who was working at UTH as a Physiotherapist volunteer. Upon her departure, Action on Disability (ADD), a UK based NGO which had an office in Zambia, took over the running of the programme until 2006, which after a lot of consultations from various stakeholders, was separated to operate autonomously under a new board and its name changed to Community Based Intervention Association (CBIA – 2007). In 2013, the organization was re-registered with Patent and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) as Archie Hinchcliffe Disability Intervention (AHDI) to further enhance its visibility as an independent, efficient and progressive organization that is growing in its capacity to serve and deliver for its clients. Further, it was registered with PACRA as not for profit organization in order to gain greater advantage including higher recognition levels during fundraising and advocacy.
Success Stories
A case of Peter Ng’andu
A child from chilambila zone one of the zone on the Eastern part of Lusaka
Child could not sit independently, was put on the HBEP and the parents (mother) were empowered with knowledge of how to work with the child. Local materials were used as seen above. Slowly the child began walking using the walking bars until he began pushing an empty 20 litre cooking oil container eventually he started learning to walk independently. Read More
Ian Banda
Meet Ian Banda, a 25 year old youth with a physical disability
He was born with muscular dystrophy and spent most of his childhood attending physiotherapy at Archie Hinchcliffe Disability Intervention and later went to school. Ian has not let the disability define or limit him from realizing his full potential. He completed his schooling in 2015. Read More
Beatrice Basune
Beatrice, a 10 year old girl has with intellectual disability
She is the first born and has one sibling. When she was born, she weighed 2kg. She couldn’t breast feed as she couldn’t suck until 5 months old hence also became sickly. She was delayed in development and everything had to be taught to her. Speech developed normally. Read More
Donors and Partners
