Only a wheelchair can restore Matshepo’s mobility and confidence
By Thomo Nkgadima (and the picture)
news@alexreporter.co.za
This poor family immediately asks for help in obtaining the wheelchair her daughter needs.
A woman from Limpopo asks for a wheelchair donation to re-establish the mobility of her daughter born with a disability.
Matshepo Mabelane, 21, was born with a rare illness known as cerebral palsy, and her life has never been easier since she was born.
Now, Lesia Mabelane (46) wishes and hopes that a Good Samaritan would come to the rescue of her daughter, Matshepo.
The destitute family in the rural village of Ga-Moloi Riverside, near the small town of Jane Furse, calls upon a wheelchair donation from anyone who wants to help their child.
Matshepo was born handicapped with epilepsy. This condition prevents her from talking, walking and playing with other children.
On top of that, she is deaf and uses napies to relive herself. And whenever her mother takes her to the hospital for necessary, proper health care treatment, the burden increases.
Lesia uses her child’s disability welfare grant to buy food, clothes and diapers.
And the only help she uses is an old broken wheelchair to move her outside the house and to shopping malls. The wheelchair causes discomfort and injuries in Matshepo.
The social grant money is not enough for them. The family consists of five people, two girls and two boys (Matshepo, Kgothatso, Surprise, Kgotso and Tumisho). Their father, with matric certificate and a drivers license, is unemployed.
“I want my child to get a school for children living with a disability so that I can also have time to look for a job.”
The 47-year-old father of the disabled child, John Mabelane, told Alex Reporter that his family has been waiting for proper wheelchair since they applied it at Glen Cowie Hospital before Covid-19.
Please contact the following number if you would like to help: 0728296913.
