Supporting the motor independence of students using wheelchairs by providing more than 130 customised chairs for students in all Egyptian universities (manual or electric) according to the student’s need to enable them move without the need of help from others, integrate them into education, and enable them to attend their lectures regularly by providing a chair that facilitates their movement.

Characteristics / Features of Chairs:

• The chairs are tailored to each student’s size (length, width, injury, needs) as an extension of their body to compensate for their inability to walk, and are imported from Germany from a company with a distinguished reputation in the wheelchair industry.
• They are made of processed aluminium, which makes it light, easy to move and conforming to international specifications.
• They are easy to disassemble and install, supporting the transportation of the chair by various means of transportation.
• The chair works by size to avoid the side effects caused by local chairs and affect the health of students and replace them with healthy chairs that protect them from bed ulcers, curvature of the spine, and stiff joints; and also maintain the safety of students by providing chairs that conform to international specifications and are used safely in streets and unpaved roads, and urge students to practice sports or arts by providing light and easy to move chairs. In addition to enhancing the confidence of the wheelchair user and changing the society’s perception thereof.

Many other features are also offered in addition to the provision of a wheelchair, such as:

• Training students on the optimal use of wheelchairs, which facilitates their movements to/from the university, within the campus and the stands, leading to their motor independence.
• Training beneficiary students to make initial maintenance of chairs to maintain them.
• Providing an educational CD for everyday living skills.
• Providing psychological rehabilitation sessions that take place in conjunction with raising sizes or in sessions dedicated to needs.
• Maintenance and provision of spare parts – when needed – which achieves the continued benefit of the chair through the maintenance center of the contracting institution with the tender fund in the project.
• More than 75% of the students benefiting from the project increased their rate of going to university and also the need for facilities.
• 95% of students praised that there is availability within Ain Shams University by paving the university’s internal roads, providing ramps, improving entrances, and activating the use of elevators.

According to surveys conducted with students

 “The chair helped mending a big part of my life after I thought it lost its sense. I kept visiting places I love, living my life closer to normal, and ignoring frustrations that people used to project unto me”

Ali Saeed – Student at Ain Shams University