Learning Therapy Skills Online
How do you keep children with disabilities, who need constant therapy, continue accessing it when the centers of access are closed? How do you make sure that the small gains you have made are not lost? How do you keep adding on to the small blocks that you have painstakingly built with children over time? Those and more were the questions that SMU staff and volunteers were faced with when gathering places including the Stars Day Care Center were closed. In June 2021, Uganda recorded a surge in the cases of COVID-19 which was code-named the second wave. Results of COVID-19 tests done on June 8th, 2021 confirmed 1,438 new cases, the highest number of cases recorded on a single day since the first case was reported back in March of 2020. This second wave of COVID-19 prompted the government of Uganda to institute a second 42 days’ lockdown that ran from June 18th, 2021 up to the end of July 2021. As a result, many institutions, including the Stars Day Care and Learning Center closed