Africa
Four-wheel chairs
Three-wheel chairs
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Wheelchair Technologist Training Course -
June 1999 to March 2002
Motivation's work in Africa is focused on training Wheelchair Technologists to enable them to develop comprehensive wheelchair services. Motivation has been working with the Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technology Technologists (TATCOT) to set up the world's first Wheelchair Technologists Training Course (WTTC). We developed the programme in response to over 70 requests for help with wheelchair provision from 25 different countries in Africa
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| Wheelchair technology training | Brake theory | Student practice excrcises in the training workshop |
We began working with TATCOT in 1999 and the first intake of the WTTC was in October 2000 with five students from Uganda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. They have now returned to their home countries to develop their own wheelchair services. To date sixteen wheelchair technologists have graduated from five different countries, most of them disabled people themselves who are now addressing the wheelchair needs of their local communities.
The course is one academic year, covering all aspects needed for a comprehensive wheelchair service including wheelchair design and production, workshop management and wheelchair related issues such as assessment, prescription and fitting. It is our experience that many wheelchair users purchase wheelchairs directly from wheelchair workshops, so it is essential that the wheelchair workshop is able to prescribe and fit an appropriate wheelchair. The students are taught designs which are suitable for small scale local production and also for local conditions.
Contact
Mr Mtalo
Vice Principal Academics
TATCOT (Tanzanian
Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists)
PO Box 8690
Moshi
Tanzania
Telephone: + 255 (0) 27 275 3986/7
Fax: + 255 (0) 27 275 2038
Email: mtalo@kilinet.co.tz
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Download WTTC Information flyer (95 KB) |
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Download Course Criteria (39 KB) |
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Download WTTC Application form (24 KB) |