Standing in a wheelchair?!

Sitting in a wheelchair means: reaching things is certanly hard, talking with others is slightly awkward and last but not least that their users are always in a sitting position.  Which is – to tell the truth – not very comfortable!

But how about standing in the wheelchair?

A team at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan developed a battery-powered, joystick-controlled wheelchair that transitions from a sitting to a standing position with a push of a button.

Check it out here!

 

Angels of Amal Ghad, Damascus

I’ve been on a professional mission in Damascus delegated by my employer, the Peto Institute, for the past 3 weeks. I’m working in a Conductive Education school for children with disabilities called Amal Ghad.
They prepared a short slideshow of photos taken in the school during the children’s work.

Take a look at it!

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