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Description
The Sustainable Mobility project of the Collaboratory empowers people living with a disability in rural West Africa to pursue educational and work opportunities and more fully participate in family and community life. Our electric, 3-wheeled, off-road wheelchair has transformed the lives of clients through partnerships with the Center for the Advancement of the Handicapped in Mahadaga, Burkina Faso, and the Center of Hope in Fada, Burkina Faso. Now, to reach more people in new locations and with more partners, Sustainable Mobility is working to reduce manufacturing time and cost by authoring image-driven fabrication guides to enable local fabricators to build trikes. We seek to put local fabricators to work building tricycles wherever they are needed.
Funding for this work provided by The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research.
Publication Date
Spring 2022
Keywords
Messiah University, Messiah College, Engineer, community, service
Disciplines
Engineering
Recommended Citation
Sinsel, Joey; Glavin, Timothy M. Mr.; Bunch, Katie; Delate, Rachel; Rashford, Rachel; Meyer, John; and Vader, David T., "A Sustainable Mobility Solution for Persons Living with Disability in Burkina Faso" (2022). 2022 Collaboratory/Engineering Symposium. 3.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2022/3
Comments
The work presented in this document has been provided solely for educational and edification purposes. All materials are composed by students of Messiah University and are not certified by any means. They do not constitute professional consultation and require the examination and evaluation by a certified engineer through any product development process. The contents documented are the produced work by the student design team but do not necessarily represent the as-built or as-assembled state of a complete and tested design; faculty, staff, and other professionals involved in our program may have augmented the student engineering work during implementation, which may not be recorded within this document.
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