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Georgian Wheelchair Production Network
A group of wheelchair users in Georgia. Photo: World Institute on Disability
Implementing Partner: World
Institute on Disability (WID) with Coalition for Independent Living; Whirlwind Wheelchair International; Georgian Foundation for Prosthetic Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Funding Period: April 2009 - March 2012
Amount: $1,400,000
Purpose: Establish a wheelchair production
center in Tiblisi and provide training to users
Project Components
- Establish a mid-size wheelchair production and
repair facility in Tbilisi, and small, networked
wheelchair sales, distribution, and repair shops
in Gori and Zugdidi
- Train Georgian Foundation for Prosthetic Orthopaedic
Rehabilitation (GEFPOR) specialists in
adaptive seating
- Translate into Georgian and disseminate wheelchair
mobility, maintenance, self-care, and barrier free
access materials
- Enable wheelchair users and persons with mobility
impairments (at least 50 percent women and youth)
to participate in roundtable peer support groups,
disability awareness, and community access/barrier-removal
trainings
- Hold regional mobility and self-help skills
camps
- Identify and remove barriers that prevent people with disabilities
from entering key public buildings
- Educate on
community access and barrier-removal issues
- Use a broad range of communciations materials to
inform different audiences—NGO staff,
media professionals, teachers, government officials,
lawyers, and architects—about the need for barrier-free
accessibility
- Hold national forums on community accessibility
for government officials and lawmakers,
professionals, media, persons with mobility impairments
and their families to discuss issues related to
accessibility, lessons learned in Georgia, and strategies
for implementing legislation promoting community
accessibility for wheelchair users
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