This project is being implemented by the Callan Vanimo Inclusive Education Resource Centre (IERC) with the support of Callan Services for Persons with Disabilities National Unit (CSNU) and Mary MacKillop Today. Together, project partners aim to raise awareness of the…
Charlie is a musician from Ngalitatai in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Motivation Australia was really pleased to visit him at home, at the end of 2018. As a teenager, Charlie had an accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury and…
Name: Anasavaia Liku Age: 30 Current role: Community Rehabilitation Assistant and Mobility Device Service Clinician Anasavaia (Ana) is a mother of three young children (aged 3, 4 and 6) and has received training through MA’s programmes in Fiji. Ana shared…
Katrina from Motivation Australia (MA) visited Vanuatu in January to provide mentoring and support in the provision of wheelchair services to service partners at Vanuatu Society of Persons with Disabilities (VSPD), Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Justice and Community…
Motivation Australia is currently working in partnership with the Rehabilitation Division of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services in the Solomon Islands to provide technical support in strengthening their mobility device services. The Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Unit has…
The Motivation Australia team has been working on a Walking Aid Training Package, aiming to increase safe and effective provision of walking aids by hospital and community based health and rehabilitation workers. The package has been developed as part of a broader program…
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 was pleased to work with the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education (SICHE) on their first WHO Wheelchair Service Provision (basic) training course.
17 students on the Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) diploma course successfully completed the training.