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Mothers of children with cerebral palsy trained to make APT Chairs

7th September 2017 by Shaun Grech

Some mothers of children with cerebral palsy at the With God Cerebral Palsy centre have undergone training in how to make Appropriate Paper Technology (APT) chairs. Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APbT or APT) is a cost-effective way to produce personally designed furniture or other objects for use and creativity. Materials are recycled: waste paper, thin card […]

Filed Under: Africa, Field Pulse Tagged With: Appropriate Paper-based Technology, Cerebral Pasy, Ghana

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