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Get ready for a global wave of good: @GivingTuesday is TOMORROW! 🌍💙
With bonus funds available from @GlobalGiving, there’s never been a better time to support ISWP’s mission and vision.
Let’s create change together! globalgiving.org/projects/im…
A reminder to join us tomorrow for our Membership Webinar & Website Demonstration!
📅 Date: November 20, 2024
🕒 Time: 12:00 pm CET / 11:00 am GMT
🔗 To Register: Members should have received an email with the link or contact [email protected]
Wheelchair Alliance K has released their latest report entitled 'Wheelchair Provision: How to Drive Effective Change'.
Read it here
wheelchair-alliance.co.uk/bl…
Are you a member of ISWP? Join us for an ISWP Membership Webinar & Website Demonstration!
📅 Date: November 20, 2024
🕒 Time: 12:00 pm CET / 11:00 am GMT
🔗 To Register: You should have received an email with the link or contact [email protected]
The @WheelchairAllianceUK is conducting a survey. The responses will add evidence to discussions with the Department for Transport regarding the alteration to the classification of #wheelchairs and its impact on #WheelchairUsers. eu.surveymonkey.com/r/DP5NGK…
22 days until #GivingTuesday! 🎉
With bonus funding available from @GlobalGiving, GivingTuesday is the perfect day to give. The more you give, the closer we get to reaching our fundraising goal of $US600,000. Let’s make a big impact together!
#MoveAMillion
ALT Man in a purple business shirt is pushing a man in wheelchair up a dirt path in a garden setting.
On Friday our Programme Manager @BethSheehan attended #AATC2024 on the Gold Coast. A great opportunity to listen to the 5Ps in the context of Australia, the challenges and uplifting moments of tourism and accessible travel and the international sector of #AssistiveTechnology.
ALT Sign of the Australia Assistive Technology Conference 2024 also depicting a person in a wheelchair on the beach.
ALT Image of Beth Sheehan standing next to the ISWP poster presentation of 'Wheelchair Provision Education in Ukraine, a Country at War'.
ISWP Board Member Marie Abou Saab presented at the 1st ISPO Arabic Regional Congress for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Jordan. Marie presented on #WheelchairProvision in Lebanon. It was a great opportunity to be involved at their first congress in the region.
#ISPOCongressJordan
ALT Marie is kneeling next to David Constantine, ISPO President who is seated in a wheelchair next to Claude Tardif, ISPO's Past President. They are sitting in a hotel lobby.
ALT Marie is standing next to Mr Raed Al Khattab, President of the ISPO Arabic Regional Congress for Prosthetics and Orthotics. They are standing in front of 3 Congress signs.
ALT Marie is standing next to Mr Omar Al Jamal who is Organizing Committee Chair for the ISPO Arabic Regional Congress for P&O.
Wishing our colleagues in the #Prosthetic and #Orthotic sector a wonderful International Day.
We appreciate the collaborative efforts with @ispo and the wider rehabilitation field
#Wheelchairs #AssistiveTechnology #DisabilityAdvocacy
This GivingTuesday, ISWP is asking for support to conduct needs assessments to understand local contexts, needs and barriers for wheelchair provision.
With @GlobalGiving’s matching funds on Dec 3rd, your donation will make more impact!
globalgiving.org/projects/im…
#MoveAMillion
🌏 80 million people are potentially in need of a wheelchair
🏡65 million who need a wheelchair live in LIC-LMIC countries
👨🏾🦼➡️65-95% of people who need a wheelchair don’t have access to one
👳🏼♀️ By 2050, the world’s population of people aged 60 years and older will double
🎬New Film! #UnlockTheEveryday Times Square Takeover 🎉
🎞️Watch the short recap video
📚 Find out more here: lnkd.in/dW3pVRwr
🎥 Watch accessible versions of the short recap Youtube: ow.ly/jYON50TT7ai
#UnlockTheEveryday #SummitOfTheFuture #UNGA79
🚨New Research Alert!
Explore the publication "Utilization of Assistive Technology in Clinical Settings" and how AT is transforming healthcare and boosting patient outcomes! 🌟 Read more: mdpi.com/2227-9032/12/17/174…
#AssistiveTechnology #HealthcareInnovation #PatientCare #Research
🚨 Exciting News! 🚨
Justin Jesudas, ISWP board member, will be presenting on "Access to Empowerment: Workforce Development in Global Wheelchair Service Provisioning" at the #CreaTeConference2024, happening October 18-19 in Bengaluru, India.🌍♿️
#CreaTE2024 @MobilityIN
A big thanks to International Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition (H.C.R), Japan organisers as well as to everyone we had the pleasure of meeting. 🙏
ISWP presented on the topic, "Wheelchair Seating for Enhancing Elderly Care"
#WheelchairProvisionGuidelines #AssistiveTech
🌍 Join us at the International Home Care & Rehabilitation Exhibition (HCR) 2024 in Tokyo from Oct 23! 🇯🇵
Don’t miss our presentation on “Wheelchair Seating for Enhancing Elderly Care” with @AlexKamadu and Krithika Kandavel on Oct 4 at 1:00 PM JST.
🔗 hcr.or.jp/en/seminar/34
ISWP is proud to announce that we are now full members of @GAATO!
Another great opportunity to strengthen our partnerships globally.
#AssistiveTechnology #DisabilityInclusion #SDGs #Wheelchairs
Congratulations to @ATscale and their #UnlockTheEveryday campaign in Times Square this week. Fantastic to see #AssistiveTechnoloy on the big screen and the momentum globally.
#UnlockTheEveryday #UNGA79 #UNSustainableDevelopmentPlatform
