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"We believe our global buying skills can help our trading partner countries with more than just increased trade and improved working conditions. There must be ways we can use our skills and contacts in our global trade network to improve the overall quality of life of people in the developing countries where we trade."
Ray Baker, Director of Social Responsibility, B&Q/Kingfisher
Since 2000, Motivation has benefited significantly from working in partnership with B&Q/Kingfisher.
As well as providing Motivation with crucial funds to develop our Worldmade products and to deliver the programme's adjoined training packages, B&Q/Kingfisher have also lent us their invaluable expertise in sourcing and shipping wheelchairs from China to countries around the world.
To
publicise the achievements of their partnership with Motivation, B&Q/Kingfisher
organised the launch of Motivation's Worldmade programme at the House of Commons.
They also funded a Times journalist to travel to Sri Lanka to report on our
work and they have made a film about Worldmade. The interest that both Motivation
and B&Q/Kingfisher have gained as result of this publicity has positively
impacted both organisations.
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| The factories that produce Motivation's Worldmade wheelchairs are also used by B&Q/Kingfisher. They have been selected as suppiers because of their excellent working conditions and standard of production. | Piecing it together: the parts of the Worldmade wheelchair are produced in China. Here they are put together to show the final product. |