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Media Release

For Immediate Release

Date 3 December 2024

Motivation launches ‘Made AT Kenya’ project to build sustainable wheelchair manufacturing in Kenya

Motivation is an international rights-based disability inclusion charity and a social enterprise with 30 years of experience providing services, support, and high-quality/low-cost assistive technology (AT) to disabled people worldwide.

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities Day (IDPWD), we are proud to announce the launch of our innovative, world-leading project, Made AT Kenya. This project will establish the supply of wheelchairs in Kenya, addressing the country’s chronic shortage of wheelchairs and reducing dependency on philanthropy and imported poor-quality products.

In building the infrastructure to enable the first-ever scaled manufacture of high-quality wheelchair products by and for Kenyans, we are creating a model of provision that aims to break the cycle of donated and imported AT, move manufacturing closer to demand, and increase supply.

Wheelchairs in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Kenya are predominantly funded through philanthropy. This …