Week Six

Monday the 10th of September we worked at the IcFEM head quarters on our documentation for the wheelchair project. We did some analyse and drew three drafts with our initial ideas. It’s very important to have more ideas for the wheelchair, you can choose the best parts of each of the designs and think of different solutions.

Tuesday morning we and Leonard Wanjala did some field research of the disabled who have a wheelchair. We did some interviews and took some pictures of there wheelchair and completed a moving analyseThe first person we visit was a woman who got a wheelchair from IcFEM five years ago. She was really dependant of here wheelchair. It was nice to talk with her about here application of a wheelchair.

The second person we met was a guy who had a wheelchair, a tricycle and an adaptable car who he could use with his hands. He had a serebral pausy.

It was very useful to talk with him because he knew a lot about wheelchairs and he had also had good ideas for us. In the afternoon we visit Christine, she is spasmatic and has really heavy spasm and she only can lay an is incontinent. We visited her because two years ago two guys from our course did a project for her. They realised a horizontal lay wheelchair for her would give her the opportunity to move. It was good to see that the wheelchair was in a good condition after two years. We also visited some children from the field research of the two guys.

Wednesday we were invited to join the IcFEM staff for the celebration of the launching of the fellowship unit. There were a lot of people. We listened to some speeches and did a lot of praying. It was nice to see some things that IcFEM does in the districts. And we hope the new fellowship unit will be a success like the other fellowship unit the Mission has set up.

Thursday we went with Leonard Wanjala to Bumgoma to visit the Ministry of Health.
We visited their orthopedic workplace and talked about working together with IcFEM because they have a lot in common with IcFEM. In the afternoon we visited the District Hospital of Kimilili. We spoke with the director and the fysiotherapist and saw the workplace and some other departments. We also visited the Rotery Doctors from the Netherland who were based in the Hospital.

Friday we started with building our trycecle and helped Alex with making plaster works.