Transcript SHONAQUIP CC

Shonaquip cc
Wheelchair seating
services, training and
outreach clinics –
linking medical rehab
services to quality
community based living
solutions
CBR African Conferencen2007
Shona McDonald
Recognising the value of
appropriate mobility and seating
support equipment
Implications for wheelchair
distribution
Wrong device or
no device ?
What happens if we
make the wrong
decisions?
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solution :
Strong, versatile and
easily adapted and
appropriate products
 TOGETHER
 Training, services
and capacity building
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The purpose
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Impact on individual quality of life
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Change attitudes towards disability
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Develop skills and create employment
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Build local capacity and sustainable services
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Influence government policy development
and spending
How ?
■ Identify local
disability initiatives
■ Identify government
services and
supporting policy
■Identify strong
motivated individuals
■ create guidelines and standards
that support a long term vision
 Build mutually beneficial partnerships
with
government and local groups and individuals
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Coordinate sustainable training and support
services with a mutual understanding of
priorities and expected outcomes
Shonaquip a socially responsible
company establised a ppp with DOH
to provide professional training and
outreach clinic services for high risk
patients in the urban, peri urban and
rural areas of the province.
This service includes:
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Seating assessment, management
and screening, assistive devices
check, maintenance and repairs.
Training of care attendants, staff and
parents.
Support and capacity building of
professional staff.
Wheelchair service delivery, needs
analysis and problem solving.
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Shonaquip employs people
with disabilities as
technicians and peer group
trainers and life facilitators
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These technicians train new
wheelchair users in skills of
maintenance and repair of
their own wheelchairs.
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this sharing of skills
reduces the number of
repairs and replacement
parts as problems get
identified early and fixed
before they become a costly
problem
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These services extend to the
sharing personal
information, links to
appropriate NGO/NPO
service affiliated
organisations, social
services, rights based
organisations or just linking
users with similar hopes,
dreams and physical needs
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Establishing international
links with like minded
and associated groups –
Assisting the Pan African
Wheelchair Association in
its vision to provide
appropriate wheelchairs in
Africa, by sharing
information on cost
effective production and ,
professional assessment,
fitting and clinic support
services
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Establish wheelchair
learnerships and
apprenticeships for
technicians and
therapists wanting to
build sustainable
wheelchair services in
there own settings
If we work together we can
achieve our aims and prevent
suffering and wasted life
And positively affect peoples perceptions
of disability