The Samoa Integrated Mobility Device Services (SIMDES) project has reached the first six month milestone! The four year project (2014 – 2018) is a collaboration between the Samoa National Health Service (NHS), NOLA (Nuanua O Le Alofa) and Motivation Australia,…
Motivation Australia’s Senior Clinical Coordinator recently attended the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) World Congress in Yokohama, Japan. Lauren was attending at the request of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to present on two key initiatives; the GATE project…
Lauren and Ray just completed a week of filming and recording wheelchair users’ stories around Port Moresby, PNG. The women and men involved shared their experiences of being wheelchair users in Australia’s nearest neighbour. The footage will be edited into a series…
On 14th May, on the way to PNG to film the “It’s My Right” films, Ray Mines presented at the ATSA Daily Living Expo in Melbourne. Engineers Australia and the National Committee on Rehabilitation Engineering (NCRE) organised a one day seminar on…
Motivation Australia is pleased to publish the PNG Equitable Access Research (EAR) report. The EAR project was one of the activities that has been completed though the Access to Mobility programme, with partners PNG Assembly for Disabled Persons (ADP) and…
In early March 2014, Motivation Australia personnel Ray Mines and Lee Brentnall visited Samoa to continue working towards the establishment of the Mobility Device Services (MDS). You can download the project summary from the Recent Publications section of the Resources…
We are pleased to announce the beginning of the Samoa Integrated Mobility Device Services (SIMDES) project. This new project will be a four year (2014 – 2018) collaboration between the Samoa National Health Service (NHS), NOLA (Nuanua O Le Alofa)…
Papua New Guinea now has its first national wheelchair service training team! Nine personnel from the National Orthotics and Prosthetics Service (NOPS) and Cheshire Disability Services have completed a Training of Trainers (TOT) course in Lae, PNG. This training was…
Motivation Australia would like to congratulate eight staff from the PNG National Orthotics and Prosthetics Service (NOPS) and one physiotherapist from Cheshire Disability Services who have just completed the second stage of their intermediate level wheelchair service training. Intermediate level…
Motivation Australia was delighted to participate in the first Melanesia Sub-regional Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Forum, hosted by Persons with Disability Solomon Islands in Honiara last week and coordinated by the World Health Organisation, Pacific Island Forum Secretariat and Pacific…
Motivation Australia’s spent a week with Timor-Leste’s CNR wheelchair service provision team facilitating a children’s wheelchair clinic. These clinics are an opportunity to further develop the specific skills and knowledge required to provide an appropriate wheelchair for children who need…
The National Health Service of Samoa are trying to address the lack of mobility device services for children and adults with a permanent mobility disability. A brand new facility has been designed and construction is scheduled to commence in the…
Motivation Australia has begun an exciting new project, commissioned by the World Health Organisation Western Pacific Regional Office, to develop training resources to help prevent lower limb amputation as a result of diabetes; and to support the return to mobility…
Intermediate level wheelchair training was recently held in Lae, Papua New Guinea. Ten staff from the National Orthotics and Prosthetics Service (NOPS) the Department of Health and Cheshire Homes Services were joined by two staff from Kiribati’s Tungaru Rehabilitation Service…
Motivation Australia in collaboration with the Aboriginal Resource Development Service Inc. (ARDS) have recently completed a project as part of the Australian Government Practical Design Fund programme. This FaHCSIA programme is in preparation for the national disability insurance scheme, DisabilityCare Australia, which commences in July 2013.
A wheelchair basketball coaching and athletes clinic was recently held in Dili, Timor-Leste by Motivation Australia volunteer coaches Alison Mosely and Lisa Chaffey and local partners ASSERT. Fourteen participants participated in the five day clinic, including four women new to…
At the end of 2012, Motivation Australia received a grant from FaHCSIA’s Practical Design Fund to work with Yolngu communities in East Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia.
The focus of this work was on developing a shared understanding of Yolngu language and worldview concepts of disability. This is one of the crucial first steps to support clear communication between future government departments, service providers and community members in light of the upcoming National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Motivation Australia in cooperation with the First People’s Disability Network (FPDN, formerly the Aboriginal Disability Network) carried out consultations in ten communities in East Arnhem Land, Central Desert, Northern Cape York and the Torres Strait Islands. Twenty-six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with mobility disabilities participated and related their stories and experiences of being service users.
Motivation Australia was delighted to participate in the recent National Leadership Workshop for Aboriginal People with a Disability, hosted by the Aboriginal Disability Network in Sydney. The Workshop provided an opportunity to hear first hand some of the challenges Aboriginal…
Motivation Australia recently completed a training and support visit to our partners in Papua New Guinea. One of the key activities of the visit was training; 19 local staff members successfully completed Basic Wheelchair Service Training. Trainees learned how to…