The Motivation Australia team is thrilled to launch our It’s My Right series of short films that were created with our Papua New Guinean partners the National Orthotics and Prosthetics Service (NOPS) and PNG Assembly for Disabled Persons (ADP). These…
Motivation Australia recently completed filming for an It’s My Right video resource in PNG. As part of this resource, a series of eight posters have been developed: Four posters featuring Papua New Guineans and their families – focused on the importance…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Solomon Islands are situated North East of Australia and made up of nearly 1,000 islands spread across thousands of kilometres of Ocean. The UN ranks the Solomon Islands on its list of Least Developed Nations. There are approximately 5,000 people who need a wheelchair in the Solomon Islands, most living in rural areas with limited access to roads. The remoteness and isolation of each island community makes the establishment of rehabilitation services for people with a disability very challenging.
In 2009 Motivation Australia established a pilot wheelchair service in the capital Honiara. In 2010 Motivation Australia launched the Access to Mobility programme, building on our successful partnership with the Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Unit of the National Rehabilitation Hospital to extend wheelchair services to five provinces. Our partners would also like to increase the focus on gender equity and explore the reasons why more men have been able to access the pilot service than women.
The PNG Access to Mobility programme is a partnership between Motivation Australia, PNG Assembly of Disabled Persons (ADP) and the National Orthotics Prosthetics Service (NOPS). The programme is focused on creating equitable and sustainable access to appropriate mobility device services…