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Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP; bn, পক্ষাঘাতগ্রস্থদের পুনর্বাসন কেন্দ্র) is a Bangladesh non government organisation that works for the rehabilitation of the paralysed in Bangladesh and is located in
Savar Savar ( bn, সাভার) is a city in central Bangladesh, located in Dhaka District in the Dhaka Division, division of Dhaka. It is the closest city from Dhaka. It is also a part of Greater Dhaka conurbation which forms the Greater Dhaka, D ...
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Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
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History

The Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed was established on 11 December 1979 by Valerie Ann Taylor. Taylor was a British national who had come to Bangladesh on an aid mission. It was originally located in disused warehouses of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College & Hospital but was moved to Savar in 1990. The centre has a hundred-bed hospital.


References

Disability organisations based in Bangladesh 1979 establishments in Bangladesh Organisations based in Savar Savar Upazila Volunteer organisations in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-org-stub