An Update from; Friends of Sick Children, Malawi

July 19, 2023Tags: , ,
For children in Malawi with severe mobility and posture problems and who are still too small for a wheelchair, home chairs for tots mean that they are not condemned to life lying on the ground or the floor. With a home chair for tots they can now watch the world from an upright position like everyone else and be fed more safely. The chairs are made locally and to orthopedic specification, with adjustable strapping through the chair back to allow for each child’s particular posture needs. The chairs come with a detachable lap tray that serves many useful purposes. Please…

An Update from; Friends of Sick Children, Malawi

April 11, 2023Tags: , ,
For children in Malawi with severe mobility and posture problems and who are still too small for a wheelchair, home chairs for tots mean that they are not condemned to life lying on the ground or the floor. With a home chair for tots they can now watch the world from an upright position like everyone else and be fed more safely. The chairs are made locally and to orthopedic specification, with adjustable strapping through the chair back to allow for each child’s particular posture needs. The chairs come with a detachable lap tray that serves many useful purposes. Please…

An Update from; Friends of Sick Children, Malawi

February 12, 2023Tags: , ,
For children in Malawi with severe mobility and posture problems and who are still too small for a wheelchair, home chairs for tots mean that they are not condemned to life lying on the ground or the floor. With a home chair for tots they can now watch the world from an upright position like everyone else and be fed more safely. The chairs are made locally and to orthopedic specification, with adjustable strapping through the chair back to allow for each child’s particular posture needs. The chairs come with a detachable lap tray that serves many useful purposes. Please…

Latest Update from “Friends of Sick Children” in Malawi

May 16, 2022Tags: , ,
Thanks to the generosity of The Kitchen Table CharitiesTrust Young children in Malawi, born with severe mobility issues, are now able to be assessed and receive home chairs for tots, allowing them to spend their early days not prone on the ground and to be fed more safely. Please read our latest report of children helped by this programme: KTCTHomeChairsforTotsMay2022pdfDownload

Thanks from Just Wheels(Tanzania)

November 16, 2020Tags: , , ,
Just Wheels provides help and support to some of the most impoverished people in the world - disabled people in Tanzania. This group often faces poverty, poor health, a lack of education, and sadly, discrimination. We help mobility-impaired people to a brighter future by providing a wheelchair, support, and access to education. We are delighted to have been awarded a £4000 grant from the Kitchen Table Charities Trust to enable us to commission and supply 16 good quality, well-fitted, locally-made wheelchairs to children and adults in Tabora Region in Tanzania. A wheelchair will enable them to access education, employment, and…

Child Mobility FOSCIM (Malawi) – Update

June 7, 2020Tags: , , , ,
Attached are the details of 24 more children now mobile in Malawi thanks to KTCT. By the end of the year FOSCIM will have put together around 1,000 of these wheelchair case stories and the exercise never ceases to have an impact and only serves to remind us that whatever our gripes they pale into insignificance compared to the hand of cards dealt some folk in various other parts of the world. For the latest details on children helped, please read the following report: KTCT2020July7Download