22/09/2026
Two weeks today will be cerebral palsy day and I am here with Ikem thinking about how we will just come out that day to shout that we celebrate persons with cerebral palsy, stand with them, respect them, and love them.
And after that, to your tent O Israel.
I was at Cerebral Palsy Center (CpCenter) two weeks ago and I saw adults with cerebral palsy and many thoughts were running through my mind.
Mrs Nonye Nwosuh Nweke is a great job and we need more places like CP center for our children.
In the one week that I spent there you don't want to know the number of calls she got by parents of children with cerebral plasy looking for where to take their children.
I ran away from my inbox because of the number messages that are there. All the messages were from parents of children with cerebral palsy who want to bring their children to CP center.
It's high time that patents of children with CP in every location come together to look for a way to set up something for their children.
These children are growing daily and taking care of them is becoming more challenging.
CP center is existing because of Mrs Nonye and her daughter who has CP and she is 20 years today.
We need to do something and very fast.
If you go to the hospital, you will see that more children are being diagnose with cp and more will still happen in the future.
It's not a case of saying God forbid but the truth considering some of the causes of CP in Nigeria.
As one wearing the shoes, one of the greatest challenges in Life with Ikem: A Cerebral Palsy Warrior is finding who will take care of him very well in my absence and I will be very sure that he is well taken care of.
I believe this is one of the greatest challenges of other parents of children with cerebral palsy.
Since government is not doing anything to help us, we have to help ourselves by taking a step forward.
Through a center like CP center, many special needs parents will get employment, more people will help, Government will see us and parents will have time to live and be sure that their children are well taken care of.
I don't even know whether it's the Cerebral Palsy Day that is coming up on 2nd October or the shege that I am seeing with Ikem that inspired this post.
With the above few points of mine, I hope that I have been able to convince special needs parents and not confuse you that we need more of places like CP center for children.