Raising and living with a disability is hard for anyone. It is however harder in Swaziland. Disability is seen as a curse, a bad omen, and a punishment by the ancestors. The future of such kids is bleak in a society that discriminates them and make them face harsh stigmatization. The increase in the number of children born with disability or living with a disability has remained high. Regardless of this increase, which has also been aggravated by the high numbers of births by people living with HIV/AIDS, there is no professional facility that will provide the best care for children living with a disability. Parents are left with such a burden on their shoulders, with very little knowledge of how to take care of their children Swaziland has adopted policies and rights for people living with disability with the aim to integrate them into economic and social activities and to ensure the integration of programmes for persons with disabilities into mainstream education and provided infra-structure for rehabilitation for those who cannot be integrated. However, these rights and policies have remained on paper with no implementation. This has left children with disability secluded in the society, worn out each day and waited for the day to die. Lilita Care Centre is a facility that provides professional care for children living with disability. It is a facility that will provide physiotherapists and well trained care takers who understand such children and their needs and who will make the appropriate accommodations to support their learning and developments. The central mission will promote the advancement of people with disabilities so as to enable them to attain their maximum level of independence and integration in the community and to prevent the occurrence of physical disablement. This will be achieved by providing daily physical and mental stimulation programmes for the children and moreover teach and support their parents by providing disability sensitisation training programmes.

University of Macau / Faculty of Education