The aim is to help improve the social participation of people with disabilities by promoting mobility. Both are important factors in the fight against the vicious circle of disability and poverty and contribute to greater independence. Since 2013, HHF has been collecting around 100 used wheelchairs and other walking aids every year and refurbishing them at its site in Lüdenscheid. The target groups are people with walking disabilities in Germany and abroad, with a focus on Germany and Kenya in particular, most recently as part of aid deliveries in Ukraine. This enables us to provide for up to 250 people a year.

In Kenya, our local partner organization Nathan Hall Williams Centre (NHWC) runs a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities in Nakuru. NHWC takes a holistic approach and offers daily physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and trauma therapy for people who are unable to receive medical care for economic and social reasons. The center also has a community outreach program where the therapists visit people who live further away or cannot afford to visit the center. The delivery of mobility aids is one component of the collaboration between NHWC and HHF. There is also a workshop on site where wheelchairs, walking aids and crutches can be measured and then adapted to the respective needs. This ensures the sustainable use of the mobility aids.

In Germany, we support facilities that help the homeless, particularly in the Rhineland and Ruhr regions, by providing hygiene and health products, including mobility aids. We work with facilities that offer various forms of support and assistance to several thousand homeless people every year.

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We are committed to providing support to homeless people and families in need.

Since our foundation, we have been working with our donors to provide homeless people, refugees and families in need with a basic supply of clothing, hygiene products and urgently needed items. Over the years, we have had the opportunity to make a significant number of deliveries to homeless shelters and refugee camps in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and France.
Every donation helps to maintain our infrastructure and enables us to guarantee and expand our deliveries.

In Germany, we focus on supporting facilities that help the homeless, particularly in the Rhineland and Ruhr regions. This includes the provision of personal hygiene and health items as well as mobility aids. We would like to point out that we continue to work with facilities and initiatives abroad that offer various forms of support and assistance to several thousand homeless people every year. We always strive to provide support where the need is most urgent.

In April 2016 we build a rehabilitation center out of the container we shipped in 2015 together with an architect Till Gröner.  We distributed the hundreds of wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, and medical supplies that you donated to us over the past two years. Mobility was given to many and we’re seeing the impact our projects have on people with disabilities every day.
We believe that every individual has potential to do great things and we’ve made it our mission to support projects that believe in the same.
This center is special and our partners at NHWC provides Physio, occupational, speech, and trauma therapy every day to people who would otherwise go without. There’s also be a mobility device workshop, where people can be measured for wheelchairs, walkers, and crutches that will then be customized to fit their specific needs.  The center also has a community outreach program where our therapists will go into the homes of people who stay further away or who can’t afford to make it the center.
We can transform the lives of people with disabilities with your help!