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Shona's Hat-trick
Shona walked away with two big awards this month when she won both the Western Cape Regional Productivity Award, as well as the Social Entrepeneur Regional Business Achiever's award. She has also been accepted into the final round of the Endeavor International Programme.
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Useful Links
Links to policy and guidelines concerning persons with disabilies:
- United Nations joint position paper. CBR: A strategy for rehabilitation, equilization of opportunities, poverty reduction and social inclusion of people with disabilities.
- World Health Organisation on CBR
-South African policy on the provision of assistive devices by the Department of Health
Links to South African organisations concerned with seating and wheelchairs
-The Western Cape Rehabilitation Centre (WCRC) specialises in providing appropriate mobility devices, functional aids and rehabilitation to persons with disabilities in the Western Cape. South Africa.
Links to international organisations concerned with seating and wheelchairs
-World Health Organisation links to provision of wheelchairs in less resourced settings
Links to South African organisations working for people with disabilities
-The Association for the Physically Disabled in Northern Gauteng (APD)
-The Association for the Physically Disabled in the Greater Johannesburg area (APD)
-The Association for the Physically Disabled in the Western Cape (APD)
-The Chaeli Campaign works with children with disabilities, providing therapy and assistive devices to children in need
-The National Council for People with Physical Disabilities in the Western Cape (NCPPDSA)
-The Rachel Swart Fund helps fund wheelchairs for persons with disabilities
-Remspeced is a webpage with information on remedial and special education
-Sandta is the South African Neurodevelopmental Therapy Association
Links to international organisation working for people with disabilities
-Canchild is a centre for childhood disability research