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REHABILITATION CENTRE - Community-based Approaches
What is rehabilitation?
“Build back Better”
Rehabilitation is the procedure of assisting a person in achieving the maximum potential degree of function, individuality, and quality of life. It neither repairs nor removes the damage coming from sickness or distress; rather, it aids in the restoration of an individual’s health, wellbeing, and functioning. (Spectrum Health Lakeland 2021)
Weeks and months following a tragedy, recovery and rehabilitation begin. This phase’s objective is to restore what was previously there, put communities on a better and safer development route, and help them recover more quickly. It entails the restoration of essential services (e.g., communications, commuter transportation, and residential power), infrastructure (e.g., roads and bridges), and livelihood (e.g., schools).
Community-based Needs Immediate - Saving influenced victims - Fundamental necessities: clothes, medical treatment, shelter, food, water, and essential household items - Roads, power, and communication networks repair and restoration - Recovering agricultural damage, seed and fertiliser distribution
Short-term - Rebuilding infrastructure and re-initiating services - Re-organising community life - Following habitat restoration priorities
Long-term - Extreme weather resistant livelihoods - Extreme weather resistant infrastructure - Environmental re-establishment - Indigenous and traditional practices incorporation
Figure 5. Community-based needs category. From Thao Nguyen Le, by Thao Nguyen Le, 2021. Copyright 2021 by Thao Nguyen Le.
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