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“Wheelchair production”
- Initial assessment and planning including the mapping of local resources,
ensuring local anchoring, assessment of local needs and local adaption
of the wheelchair production concept.
- Establishing a local rehabilitation
workshop infra structure
- Capacity building and training of local personal
on wheelchair production
- Ensuring
availability of assistive devices (wheel chairs, walking aids, hearing
aids etc.)Suited to local technologies and economic condition.
- Establishing
organizational infrastructure for a services delivery system providing
assistive devices, rehabilitation services and counseling services,
The FHODA concept of providing assistive device and rehabilitation process
and needs to be an integrated part of the rehabilitation policy. The
introduction of the wheelchair production workshop concept is an important
contribution to the continuous activity of increasing the level of independent
for people with disability and to ensure their activity participating
in the society, the activity will be carried out
Wheelchair production
workshop infrastructure
The rehabilitation workshop can be established in either an existing
or a newly constructed building on a decentralized system favoring supply
and maintaining of mobility devices as near the consumer as practical
possible. The workshop will be the base for the provision of assistive
devices and associated services, the training of local personal and the
launching of local awareness.
The workshop will be equipped with the appropriate tools, machines and
devices
in order to perform services according to the local needs,
The main services provided
are:
- The provision of assistive devices
- The repair and maintenance, adjustment and adaption of assistive devices
- Local manufacturing and assembly of selected assistive devices (wheelchairs,
tricycles etc)
“The aim of the wheelchair production workshop is to produce
wheelchairs, tricycles
which are durable and user friendly under the following headings
- Fitting (taking proper measurement of the user )
- Environmental & adaptations
- Continuous maintenance ”
Capacity building
It is centered on encouraging people with disability to participate in
the society. The main targets are organization of disabled people,
professionals in the field of rehabilitation and disabled peoples in
general.
Capacity building activities concentrated on:
Raising of awareness on disability issues
Providing knowledge about assistive devices and rehabilitation services
Training and developing human resources
Employment and training
Creating jobs and independent living for people with disabilities are
among the main activities. Local personal are training according
to the principle of adapting assistive devices to the person with
a disability,
not adopting the person with a disability to the assistive device.
The
basic training activities consists of
- Technical know-how and skills
- Adaptation and practical use
- The principle of service delivery
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