New programmes or services
World Vision commits to promoting the World Health Organization Guidelines on the Provision of Manual Wheelchairs in Less Resourced Settingsthrough partnering with trained wheelchair service providers who seek to adhere to the Guidelinesandtraining staff and community volunteers on wheelchair referral and follow up.
Timeframe and/or implementation plan
Through a grant from the US Agency for International Development, in the next fiscal year, current wheelchair program staff and volunteers’ capacity will be built to conduct wheelchair referral and follow up. Partnership will be developed with trained service providers and wheelchair technical organizations such as Motivation (motivation.org.uk) in Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi to ensure adherence to the WHO Guidelines.