\u201cNo man is an island,\u201d lui die bekende Engelse gesegde. <\/p>\n
Ons sal nooit die een sonder die ander kan klaarkom nie, en di\u00e9 besef bring my weer eens tot stilstand n\u00e1 \u2019n benoude oproep: \u201cMy man het sy been verloor en hy is baie depressief. Kan julle nie met hom kom praat nie, asseblief? Ek weet nie meer hoe om hom te ondersteun nie.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ek het onmiddellik die waarde van ondersteuning tussen mense met gestremdhede vanuit soortge\u00adlyke omstandighede besef.<\/p>\n
Eveline Booysen is 53 jaar oud en woon saam met haar jongste dogter in die woonbuurt OVD.<\/p>\n
Hoewel sy voorheen by Breedevallei APD weens trauma aan haar nek ingeskakel het, het sy ses jaar gelede haar linkerbeen weens diabetes verloor.<\/p>\n
Verlede jaar het sy haar ander been weens brandskade met \u2019n warm-watersak verloor. Ten spyte van hierdie uitdagings is Eveline een van Breedevallei APD se aktiewe vrywilligers wat ondersteuning bied aan ander in die gemeenskap wat gestremdhede het. Natuurlik vra jy jouself af hoe jy dan nog \u2019n verskil in iemand anders se lewe kan maak as jy soveel uitdagings het wat jy self ervaar? Maar Evie, soos ons haar ken, se antwoord op die vraag was as dit nie vir die hulp en ondersteuning was wat sy van Breedevallei APD ontvang het nie, sou sy dit nooit oorleef het nie. Sy was bang en skaam om weer by die gemeenskap in te skakel omdat sy bekommerd was oor wat mense van haar sou dink \u2013 \u2019n enkelmoeder sonder bene in swak maatskaplik-ekono\u00admiese omstandighede. <\/p>\n
Met die hulp en ondersteu\u00adning van Breedevallei APD en ander mense met gestremdhe\u00adde was sy in staat om haar kop met trots te lig en haar maatskaplike verantwoorde\u00adlikheid in die plaaslike samelewing na te kom. <\/p>\n
Die ondersteuning wat sy by Breedevallei APD ontvang het, was die oorwinning wat haar in staat gestel het om \u2019n normale, ge\u00efntegreerde, onafhanklike lewe te lei \u2013 en ook hulp en ondersteuning aan ander mense met gestremdhede te bied.<\/p>\n
Vandag is Evie die ideale mens om hulp en ondersteuning aan die slagoffer aan die ander kant van die telefoon te bied. <\/p>\n
N\u00e1 slegs een ontmoeting het die man aan die ander kant van die telefoon ten spyte van sy swaar gemoed tot die volgende insig gekom: \u201cEk het my bene verloor, maar toe ek sien wat jy vermag het, het dit my weer moed gegee om elke dag op te staan.\u201d <\/p>\n
Deur middel van wat ons noem \u201cpeer support<\/span>\u201d kon Evie haar kennis, emosionele, sosiale en praktiese ervarings as iemand met \u2019n gestremdheid wat \u2019n rolstoel gebruik, deel en iemand help wat soortgelyke ervarings as sy deurgemaak het. <\/p>\n Terselfdertyd laat dit Evie van waarde en van nut in haar gemeenskap voel \u2013 ten spyte van haar eie uitdagings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cNo man is an island,\u201d lui die bekende Engelse 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