The Benefits

Aims

•Promoting the development of opportunities for disabled people in travel.
•Expanding new horizons for people with high level spinal cord injury by challenging perceptions of disability.
•To document and record wheelchair travel through Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.
•To highlight the barriers and boundaries facing not only the team, but also other wheelchair travellers during the project and within East Africa.
•To explore in-depth East Africa, its peoples and traditions and to break away from the tourist route, visiting projects offering facilities and resources for the disabled.
•Filming the expedition to bring the experiences back to the United Kingdom.
•To learn more about the work of the IMPACT Foundation and their supported projects in Kenya and Tanzania.
•To develop, test and produce an information/assessment criteria for companies offering accommodation and facilities for the disabled travellers.
•Developing new opportunities through the creation of new equipment for disabled adventurers, with the Adventure Designs Project at Brunel's Design for Life Centre and Equal Adventure in the UK.

Objectives

•Via the website to share knowledge of Africa, wheelchair travel and contacts for future travellers and researchers to experience Africa.
•To enable the expedition team to edit and collate the video footage, stills photos and journal to prepare a presentation for those wishing to travel to Africa, or those with an interest in the African continent/conservation and disability awareness.
•To promote inclusive expeditions and highlight the opportunities and the potential for shared learning and exchanging skills.
•To record and document the encounters and experiences of this inclusive expedition edited into a multi media presentation.
•To showcase the triumphs and successes of disabled individuals, projects and groups including links via the website.
•To gather information and visit organisations offering accommodation and facilities for the disabled traveller including links and details online.
•To formalise an assessment criteria for disabled accommodation/facilities for travellers and submit criteria to travel guide publishers and web resources.
•to raise awareness and support for IMPACT Foundation in the UK and IMPACT East Africa.