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Distribution of Mobility Devices
The Majority of persons with disabilities are born from poor families with challenges of meeting their own basic needs, it is difficult for them to take care of their disabled child or relative given their economic challenges. By providing the disabled persons with the assistive devices like elbow crutches, wheelchairs, canes, walkers, braces etc would make it easier for them to move around on their own and lead a normal life and contribute to the development of the country because disability is not inability.
In order to reduce the mobility challenges faced by persons with disability our organization working in partnership with crutches 4 Africa has distributed over 5000 mobility devices in all the nine (9) Districts of North western province from 2015 to 2016. We have distributed to both individuals and public Hospitals (Solwezi General Hospital, Lumwana District Hospital, Mukinge Mission Hospital, Mwinilunga District Hospital etc). However, the organization provided persons with disabilities from underprivileged families with mobility aids and assistive devices such as wheelchairs, crutches, elbow crutches, canes, walkers and braces. The mobility devices have facilitated self-independence that comes with the possibility of living independently in the community irrespective of disability. The distribution of the various mobility aids and assistive devices and identifying persons with disabilities who cannot afford these support equipment, train them on their usage before donating the devices to them. This has facilitated their movement, interaction with others and go about their daily lives without any challenges resulting from their nature of disability.
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