Wheelchair Training

This week, August 18-21, we have had our wheelchair specialists here in Mongolia to provide a training for those who are to give out the wheelchairs that Deseret International Chairites is providing.  Kim Brown, Gaye Brown and Misha Bradford are great!.  They train the people to fit the recipients properly, and how to train the recipients to safely maneuver, sit and get around in a wheelchair.  The days are past where DIC just gives out wheelchairs to whoever wants one.  We do not want to cause any harm to a recipient and if a wheelchair is not properly fitted, real harm can be done, such as pressure sores, etc. Also some people just can not use our wheelchairs, especially if they have to be tied in.  That is not good.

 Tsetsetgee and Batsetseg helped us with translations at this training.

 Our regular translator  Muugii, is helping Elder Brown and Misha

show how to move a wheelchair patient from a wheelchair.

 Measuring for a proper fit.

 Participants practicing their new skills

 The participants also discovered how hard it is to get around in a wheelchair.

Especially in Mongolia.

 Practicing ramps

 Going through doors

Stairs

 Parts of the Wheelchair being thought by Sister Brown

 Putting together a RoughRider Wheelchair

 The training had four groups, each with a trainer and a translator

This is Muugii with her husband Munkhbaatar.  

He also helped us with translation.

On the last day of training, August 22, 2014 was when the participents
were able to fit wheelchair recipents and give them a chair.
It was a good experience for all involved.

 This is a 94 year old woman that was so happy to receive a wheelchair.

Isaiah 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea