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Motivation's vision is of a world that promotes everyone's right to mobility and inclusion.
Motivation's mission is to enhance the quality of life of people with mobility disabilities.
Conservative estimates put the number of people with disabilities in low-income countries at close to half a billion, and an estimated twenty million require wheelchairs to be mobile.
The people we work with often find themselves caught in a vicious cycle of poverty and disability. The majority of disabled people live in isolated rural areas by subsistence, so access to medical and rehabilitation services is virtually nonexistent and money to pay even scarcer. The situation is so grave that most people who sustain a spinal cord injury in the low-income countries die within two years, compared to normal life expectancy in industrialised countries.
