New Potential for disabled people with low-cost assitive technology devices

New Potential for all people in creative craft courses and production

New Potential for recycling materials productively

People Potential Activities  

      • Training in designing and manufacture of low-cost assistive disability devices (aids and equipment) and on practical facilitation of child development, particularly designing and making games and toys - Responding to requests for courses, workshops or in-service training support, worldwide.
      • Running short training courses in the UK
      • Encouraging creative crafts; expertise in working with people who have learning difficulties, challenging behaviour or an illness needing a little opportunity for 'hands on' creative work.
      • Local Enterprise Workshops on income generation where applicable to People Potential skill areas e.g. starting a small business in toy making or Appropriate Paper-based Technology.
      • Preparing teaching and seminar  materials and publications. 

Doing related research is an important participatory activity 

 Field testing can take some time - this APT sofa is 20 years old!

News 

Thanks to Vodafone Foundation World of Difference programme, Jean is working full time for Cerebral Palsy Africa(CPA) until December 2009. In February this year she ran a workshop on Making Assistive Cardboard Equipment in Ghana and in June she and Peter Fitzmaurice plus 2 other valiant volunteers are going to help in Zambia

More on Vodafone Foundation page in this website