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A Campaign that provides dignity and inclusion for Children with Disabilities by NCPD
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Edenvale
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| Monday | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 - 16:00 |
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What Nappy Run is All About
South Africans are all too familiar with the concept of fundraising drives for many worthy causes. However a national campaign to receive donations of nappies or money to buy nappies, is a first for the country Nappy Run is an annual national campaign of the National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD). The idea was born from the heartfelt recognition of the dire and widespread need for nappies for children with disabilities. Bowel and urinary incontinence is inherent to many types of disabilities while the general public is ill-informed on this subject. Society's response to the circumstances and needs of children with disabilities, in poor communities especially, is vastly inadequate. People can't care and they can't get involved if they don't know and don't understand. We want to change this lack of public awareness with Nappy Run as much as we want to provide nappies to these children. Nappy Run takes place annually over October and November with the highlight of the campaign being Nappy Run Fun Run Events. A Nappy Run Fun Run is a family fun run/walk/wheel/stroll in support of the cause of children with disabilities and an opportunity for the public to make a stand against the widespread denial of the rights of these children, society’s most exposed and vulnerable group. The main Nappy Run Fun Run takes place every year on the first Saturday of November at the Johannesburg Zoo at 08h30. (Registration starts at 07h00).
The nappy is a simple but dire and essential need of children with disabilities. Without nappies, children’s dignity, comfort, health, mobility and freedom of movement are compromised. Yet, many children have to go without nappies because they are expensive and not affordable for most families of children with disabilities, These severely marginalised children have a disproportionately high need for nappies and require them for longer periods than non-disabled children. They often need nappies into their teen and even adult years.
The nappy is a symbol of the most basic needs of children with disabilities that are unmet, and also a symbol of the denial of even their most fundamental rights. The governments is under constitutional obligation to provide nappies and assistive devices to children with disabilities as part of basic health care but it is failing dismally in providing in these basic needs and rights. While the NCPD is advocating for children to access these fundamental rights through government provisioning, we cannot sit idly and watch the children being “wet” going without nappies.
Donations for nappies can be made online from the Nappy Run website throughout the year.
