Assembling Wheelchairs

Posted on | September 20, 2009

KODO Handicapped
Assemble Wheelchairs

Salima, Malawi… Just east of the central portion of the Salima Trading Center in Malawi, Africa stands Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach, or KODO. It is a humanitarian organization that has been formed with the purpose and focus of helping those with physical disabilities. George Banda, a victim of a physical handicap that has plagued him since birth, operates the facility. Instead of succumbing to his problems George has worked to overcome them. He has not only provided for himself and his family, but has worked diligently to assist others with physical disabilities through the organization he founded for this purpose, KODO.

Today KODO is training a number of Malawians with physical disabilities in various ways they can become self sufficient and self-supporting through the learning of trades that will provide them with an income.

In a recent shipment of 550 wheelchairs, that included a number designated for distribution through KODO, the assembly of the chairs were carried out by those with physical handicaps themselves, again reflecting a pattern of Malawians doing what they can do for themselves and the Malawi Project assisting in areas they cannot achieve without outside assistance.

Pictured are George Banda, President of KODO, some of the workers working inside the facility near Salima, and workers with disabilities, putting together new wheelchairs for others with disabilities.