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Voorburg, April 2007

Dear sponsors and interested parties,

The project ‘Ghana Hand in Hand’ has been successfully completed! You can read more about this in this mail. Also, you can find information about the continuation of the GhanaMoves project. In addition, we would like to invite you to participate in a golf tournament. All the proceeds go to Movendi. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that the GhanaMoves project is on exhibition in the Techniek Museum Delft.

‘Ghana Hand in Hand’ project completed

The ‘Ghana Hand in Hand’ project has recently been completed. Together with the Hand in Hand community, a home for disabled children in Nkoranza, a team of six qualified volunteers has laboured here for 10 months.

cursisten foto The multidisciplinary team took care of a pair of courses: one course focusing on product development for handicapped people and a course on the field of physiotherapy. The courses have been given to employees of the home and a few other interested persons. Both courses have been succesfully completed by the participants!

At the end of the course, all participants received a Movendi certificate.

The knowledge has also been left behind in concrete terms, namely documentation for students of physical therapy and a project manual for students of product development. In addition to the two courses, the project team has been busy designing and constructing tools for the disabled inhabitants of the Hand in Hand Community. A lot of progress has been made by frequent training of specific therapeutic exercises with the children from the home. Also, a classroom has been built for physiotherapy, where the tools and documentation for physiotherapy will be kept and the attendants can practice therapeutic exercises with the children. You can find an extensive evaluation of this project on this website soon.

GhanaMoves2007!

The project GhanaMoves has been recently set up by 4 students of Design Engineering (Technical University of Delft). Together with Mak-D, a local enterprise, this group has designed a hand-driven tricyle which makes street trading possible for physically disabled people. Agreements have been made with FanMilk as the industrial party. FanMilk is the manufacturer of ice cream and yoghurt in West Afrika. This company buys the tricycles and a rehabilitation centre acquaints FanMilk with disabled people to help them ride the bicycle and sell ice cream. In a nutshell: provision of jobs and mobility for the disabled people, socially acceptable business for FanMilk and complete financial independence of the government or NGO.

Six months after the return of the students to the Netherlands, it appears to be very difficult to bring the tricycles together with Mak-D and young Ghanaian handicapped people. Unfortunately this has resulted in the fact that a few of the tricycles have not yet been used.

In June 2007, Frank van Delft and Tim van Dooren, two students of the master Entrepreneurship (Erasmus University) went to Ghana to form this project organizationally. You can find the project plan of GhanaMoves 2007 on this website.

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The tricycle designed by the project team Ghana Moves.

Golf Tournament

On June 15, the Jacobswoude Open Golf Tournament will take place at the golf course Zeegersloot in Alphen aan de Rijn. This golf event, which also offers golf clinics, is organised by Rotaryclub Jacobswoude. All the proceeds go GhanaMoves 2007. If you are interested in participating, please check out the Movendi website for the official announcement and the subscription form.

Techniekmuseum Delft

Would you like to see what a GhanaMoves tricycle looks like with your own eyes? In reaction to the 165th anniversary of the TU Delft, with the theme of Sustainability & Africa, an exhibition will be organized in the technical museum. The GhanaMoves project will be a part of this exhibition. A photo-reportage, film presentation and a true tricycle will be on view. More information about this exhibition can be found on this website soon.

We will keep you informed.

Kind regards,

Movendifoundation;

Esther Blom, Girolanda Costa Ramos, Jan Willen de Joode, Tom Kalkman and Annelies Verheij.

Voorburg, September 2006

Dear sponsors and interested parties,

It’s time for an overview of the latest progress of the Movendi projects. This newsletter informs you about the completed physiotherapy project in India and two new projects in Ghana. For more information about the projects described and beautiful film images, please see the relevant projects on this website.

Physiotherapy project Kakinada (India) completed

The project by Saskia Knol and Geeke de Boer in Kakinada was succesfully completed. During a 4 month period, these two physiotherapists have dedicated themselves for 100% to improve the physiotherapeutic climate in the MSI (home for girls with a physical handicap). Next to the improvement of the practice rooms and the development of a Patient Chart, knowledge has been transferred to the physiotherapists that were present. The final evaluation of this project can be found on our website.

GhanaMoves!

During this dazzling project, four students of Design Engineering (TU Delft) dedicated themselves to handicapped young adults in Ghana. This is a group of people that is often treated unfairly because no arrangements are made for them in the business world. Together with a local enterprise (Mak-D), Rutger, Sietse, Stephanie and Imke have designed the “High Spot”, a tricycle that enables people to perform street trading. Afterwards, this project acquired a long-lasting character because the West African manufacturer of ice cream, FanMilk, could be involved in the project. Fanmilk is the direct buyer of the tricycles. A Ghanaian rehabilitation centre has selected handicapped people who can use the tricycle to sell “High Spot” ice cream. The provisioning takes place via the existing distribution channels of Fanmilk. Currently, the entire concept is applied on a small scale, as a test. The first results are positive! The sales figures are so high that the person who sells them is left with a full salary. If the test continues to work well, Fanmilk has stated that they will use the tricycles on a larger scale. All in all, this is a beautiful project. Movendi is investigating whether it could also be applied elsewhere.

Ghana Hand in Hand

Ghana Hand in Hand is the latest project of Movendi in cooperation with the well-organised Hand in Hand Community, a home for handicapped children in Nkoranza, Ghana. A team of six qualified volunteers dedicates itself to people with a handicap in the Hand in Hand Community and the neighbourhood of Nkoranza. The project is aimed at the transfer of knowledge on the field of physiotherapy and the development of aids for people with a handicap. Both courses are given to people from the home and a few other persons. Two physiotherapists, Annemieke and Merellijn, and two kinetics technologists, have been on the spot since June. For a short time now, they are supported by Piet, mechanical engineer, and Annemiek, physiotherapist.

As you can see, Movendi keeps on moving! We will keep you informed.

Kind regards,

Movendifoundation;

Esther Blom, Girolanda Costa Ramos, Jan Willen de Joode, Tom Kalkman and Annelies Verheij.

januari 2006

In the past few months a lot of good things have happened and progress is made rapidly. Underneath you can read about the most important events.

We are now Movendi Foundation!

A year after finishing our project in Kakinada, we have decided to make our organization an official foundation. The official documents are now in possession of a notary who will make our foundation a fact. Movendi comes from Latin and means "of moving". We are moved by what we saw and, therefore, we want to devote ourselves even more to improving the living conditions of handicapped people in developing countries all over the world. By means of exchanging knowledge and supporting and coaching projects as Indiaproject2003 we will try to improve the quality of life of handicapped people in developing countries.

Tricycles for graduated girls

Recently another school year at the MSI in Kakinada has come to an end. This means that e new group of girls have graduated. Movendi Foundation has decided to donate a Tiger Trike to all the graduating girls in need of a tricycle. Tiger Trikes are now being manufactured by our former student Mr. P. Prasadarao.

Trainee on Ambon

Jenneke Verhoef from the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, has done a trainee-ship in Ambon, Indonesia. Jenneke was inspired by the Indiaproject2003 and has designed a tricycle similar to the Tiger Trike. Movendi Foundation has coached her from the Netherlands during the period of her stay. Jenneke has also trained a local technician to manufacture the tricycle. Therefore, this project has a long term effect.

Trainees in Kakinada

In cooperation with the Technical University of Delft as well as the University of The Hague it is now possible to organize traineeships. Ivo Schoemaker (Mechnical Engeneering) and Puck Anouk van de Bovenkamp (Medical instrumentation and Industrial Design) have left for Kakinda on June 28th. The first news from these two students is very positive! The two of them will evaluate and redesign the SarDyna (the little car for the crawling girls). The goal is to make a more complete design which can be used for manufacturing on a larger scale.

At the end of August four students of Human Kinetic Technology will head for Kakinada as well. Later on you can read more about this project. The trainees will be coached by Movendi through email contact and all expenses made on material will be sponsored.

Ghana

A few weeks ago we came into contact with the Orion Foundation (orthopedics and rehabilitation in developing countries) - A foundation with activities similar to ours. Orion together with the Delft Rotary Club has invited Movendi Foundation to accompany them to the Orthopedic Training Centre in Nsawam, Ghana. Movendi Foundation will investigate whether there are possibilities for projects like the IndiaProject2003.

New website and email address

To conclude we would like inform you about our new website an email address. Due to problems with our previous website we have decided to transfer our website to a more reliable server. Dwarz B.V. has offered to host our new website. Our new address is now: www.movendifoundation.org

At the moment the website carries the same information as our previous one. We are now busy designing and updating the new website. From now on you will receive our email from the following address:

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