by Main User | Dec 10, 2019 | Helen Hyams Project
We went to Tamale and then up to Wa again, this time to teach the group how to make standing frames. The hospital at Wa paid for our tickets on the new air service from Tamale to Wa, which whisked us there in just under an hour. Sadly our suitcases had to travel six...
by Main User | Oct 1, 2019 | Helen Hyams Project
We’re off to Wa again to teach the group how to make standing frames. Then I and Diane Lyle (no relation to Liz) will meet in Tamale to run a revision course and train some more people to make chairs and frames. Liz will stay on in Wa helping in the hospital and...
by Main User | Sep 1, 2018 | Helen Hyams Project
Liz and I are visiting Tamale Teaching Hospital again, to offer support with treating cerebral palsy to the Physiotherapist who has replaced Esther, catch up with the APT group and then travel up to the Regional Hospital at Wa in the Upper West Region. The plan is to...
by Main User | Oct 1, 2017 | Helen Hyams Project
In October Liz and I went to Tamale again to run the second part of the course with the group learning how to make standing frames for the children. This time CPA are sent two Physios, Diane Lyle (not related to Liz) and Diana Jackson. Diane and I reviewed six...
by Main User | Feb 1, 2017 | Helen Hyams Project
Despite an extra day at Manchester Airport due to Storm Doris we made it to Tamale just 24 hours late. Marian had been on the last plane leaving Amsterdam so had stayed in Accra, thanks to Mandy Budge of Multikids School who also re-arranged our internal flights. The...
by admin | Sep 7, 2016 | Helen Hyams Project
Back in 2015 with retirement looming I approached the Beverley based charity Jacob’s Well Appeal (JWA) about the possibility of using my skills as a Paediatric Physiotherapist on one of their projects abroad. A few months passed and then I heard from JWA that they had...
