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<p><!--StartFragment--><strong>Disabled Venturer to Drive the Length of Africa to Raise the Profile of People with Mobility Disabilities - <a href="http://www.motivation.org.uk">Supporting www.motivation.org.uk</a> 'Wheels Out Of Poverty' 20th Anniversary Campaign</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #006400;">Disabled venturer Richard Harris, together with his wife Rachel, is currently fulfilling a lifetime ambition – to drive the length of Africa all the way back to the UK. By anyone’s standards this is an ambitious project, but the single detail that makes this adventure all the more remarkable is that Richard uses a wheelchair and elbow crutches since breaking his neck playing rugby in 1986. It's fitting therefore that Richard & Rachel will be supporting </span><span style="color: #006400;"><a href="http://www.motivation.co.uk">www.motivation.co.uk</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Motivation wheelchairs can save and change people’s lives. The wheelchairs are fitted to each individual’s needs – with an appropriate wheelchair and pressure relief cushion as well as health and mobility peer training, a disabled person is much less likely to die from secondary complications. Motivation has designed over 50 different designs of wheelchairs over the last 20 years. This means the wheelchair user can get around seeing friends, going to school, growing up in the community and going to work, allowing them the freedom of inclusion which can turn their life around financially and socially.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Motivation helps disabled people in low income countries by focusing on improving their survival, mobility, empowerment and inclusion and they do this by:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">* Helping people stay alive by training nurses to care for people with spinal cord injuries;<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />* Designing and distributing affordable wheelchairs;<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />* Teaching mobility and life skills through other wheelchair users;<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />* Helping disabled people to go to school and work and to be part of their communities.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Richard and Rachel are posting regular updates at </span><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.harris.gb.net">www.harris.gb.net</a></span></span></p>
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<p>For more information</p>
<p>Call +44 7924 824714 </p>
<p>Email: <a href="mailto:rich@harris.gb.net">rich@harris.gb.net</a></p>
<p>Website and blog: <a href="http://www.harris.gb.net">http://www.harris.gb.net</a> </p>