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On January 26, 2023, our Program Manager Alessandra Aries<\/strong><\/a> had the opportunity to visit the workshop of one of our partners on the field – The Accessibility Institute TAI<\/a><\/strong> – in Kenya.<\/p>\n TAI manufactures and distributes Safari Seat<\/strong>, affordable, all-terrain wheelchairs that enable people with disabilities in Africa to regain their mobility and live independent lives.<\/p>\n The workshop produces about 15 wheelchairs per month<\/strong>, which can be adjusted according to patient needs, and employs four local employees<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A great success story!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visit to a workshop for the production of Safari Seat, wheelchairs designed for mobility in Africa and manufactured locally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[77,102],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-2023-en","tag-kenya-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-ability.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}