“I believe Joanne’s condition could be because of the medical service, the health services, at the hospital where I was giving birth to Joanne. It was not quite good. I was in labour pains for about two days, and they continued to insist that I give birth through normal delivery. I’m thinking if I had got a caesarean, I would have given birth to a baby who was healthy.”

“I brought Joanne to House of Hope when she was 2 years old. At that time, she was still not able to control her head, was not able to control the pelvic, was not able to crawl. She was doing nothing; she would just lay all day.”

“When I first came to House of Hope, I was real happy and appreciating with the service they were providing there. At the time when we first came, I did not even think my child could do anything or could improve anything. But we were attending the rehabilitation service there and I have seen a progress in Joanne. On top of that, I was getting a lot of encouraging from the staff, and I was being advised to do many things, even letting Joanne to mingle with other children and to enroll her to school. It was good advice.” – Upendo