Most patients require wheel chairs, elbow crutches, walkers, special mattresses and beds. They also require assistance to purchase basic drugs which they require in their day to day lives. Most of the people with MS require physiotherapy treatment, which is inaccessible to them due to financial constraints and difficulty to reach hospitals as they live in remote villages. Most often they do not have anyone to assist them for such visits. They also require counseling to come to terms with their symptoms and disabilities.
At the Multiple Sclerosis Association of Lanka we try to link donors to the needs of specific patients for a pre-determined time period. Alternative, donations could be made to the common pool where the funds are collected and then distributed to people with MS according to their needs. MSAL monitors all such funds paid to these MS Patients.
No matter how much or how little you may give, it is a great help to our patients.
How you can help
- Make a monthly donation of a specific sum of money for a time period specified by you.
- Fund the purchase of specific equipment required by patients such as wheelchairs, elbow crutches etc.
- Assistance towards modifying the homes of people with MS Patients to make it differently-abled friendly (such as installing handrails, ramps, modification of toilets to enable wheelchair access etc.)
- Assistance to build houses for the MS Patients where the breadwinner is an MS Patient.
- Assistance towards the education of the children of MS Patients, particularly where the breadwinner is an MS Patient.
- Assistance towards the living expenses of low-income MS Patients either monthly or as a one-off payment.
- General one-off donations to be disbursed to patients identified by us for specific needs.
- Donations to the general fund, which is used throughout the year to assist patients to purchase medicines, vitamins and various other items.
- Assistance by finding employment for MS Patients particularly the young patients.
