Aryon can finally do his homework at home

Mališevo/Malisheve, Kosovo – It was no longer an unusual request for assistance at the competent CIMIC Center Mališevo. The first instance was in 2006, when the Facility Engineering Service (FES) of the German Defense Administration Field Office KFOR in Prizren built a handicapped-suitable chair for a physically disabled pupil of the school "Bela Crkva", which enabled a 9-year-old boy to participate in classroom instruction without a wheelchair.

In the present case, the challenge for the craftsmen was incomparably bigger for 7-year-old Aryon Krasniqi is forced to master all activities of daily life with his feet because he was born without arms.

Already a year ago, the CIMIC Center Mališevo had handed over a handicapped-suitable workplace for Aryon to the school.
In order to provide the boy with a better possibility to fulfill his educational needs also at home despite his disability, Captain Manfred O. and his team at the CIMIC Center Mališevo obtained the necessary means from the German soldiers' association "Lachen Helfen". The FES craftsmen designed and built a desk tailored to the boy's special needs.

The incorporated low and oblique part of the desktop and the desk chair mounted in front of it now permit Aryon to do his homework at home, at his personal workplace. A large abacus completes the workplace and has been fitted such that it can be operated by foot from the chair.

During the hand-over to the Krasniqis, the most precious sign of gratitude for the team from the CIMIC Center and the two craftsmen was seeing Aryon, his brother and one of his sisters curiously eyeing and taking possession of the desk, chair and abacus. They tested especially the possibilities of adjusting the chair. Then, in order to show how well he managed using the new equipment, he immediately took a seat on the chair and skillfully wrote a few words into his exercise book.

(Story by Captain Gerhard Fahn, German Army)