Mobility for 100 Disabled People in Tanzania

Summary

This project provides 100 people with appropriate, fitted, high quality wheelchairs in Tanzania.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

By traveling through Africa, our team has observed the poor quality of most donated wheelchairs. By addressing the root of the problem: the lack of funding, Worldwide Mobility provides a solution. In Tanzania, several wheelchair workshops produce quality wheelchairs and with funding from Worldwide Mobility, will be able to tackle their list of people who need wheelchairs but cannot pay.

Activities

If we provide quality mobility aids to disabled people, the risk of the development of potentially fatal secondary conditions descreses, and they are able to rejoin society.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $0

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $0 .  The original project funding goal was $30,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will enable 100 people to have appropriate, high quality wheelchairs that can withstand the African terrian.

Project Message

Worldwide Mobility provides the support necessary to empower the local workshops that produce high quality chairs but lack funding.
- Danielle DeLatte, MIT student

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Danielle Delatte
Webmaster, communications
Building NW14 - Mobility Lab
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
4435239847
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

Worldwide Mobility
Building NW14 - Mobility Lab 77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 2139
United States
443-523-9847
http://worldwidemobility.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Tanzania, United Republic of and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Tanzania, United Republic of, read the Human Development Report on Tanzania, United Republic of or the Wikipedia entry for Tanzania, United Republic of.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 16, 2009