LOREWO

Local Rehabilitation Workshop

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LOREWO Local Rehabilitation Workshops

Empowerment, participation, and rehabilitation for people with disabilities in low income countries

LOREWO team members Ndjambula Silvanus (standing) and Joel Nghole are repairing a heavy used wheelchair in the workshop in Oshakati in northern Namibia.

Funding
The LOREWO project is funded by NORAD/Atlas Alliance (from 2001).
The initiation project was funded by UNDP/UNOPS (1999-2000).

LOREWO - in Zimbabwe and Namibia since 1999
In 1999 the two first LOREWOs were established in the city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe and in the rural area of Oshakati in northern Namibia.

Zimbabwe
Bulawayo LOREWO in Zimbabwe was founded in 1999 on the premises of the National Council of Disabled People in Zimbabwe - NCDPZ.
Address: 1952, Old Victoria Falls Road, Bulawayo
Phone: + 263 9 20 23 08
Fax: + 263 9 20 23 08
E-mail: lorewo@mweb.co.zw

Namibia
Oshakati LOREWO in Namibia was founded in 1999 on the premises of Oshakati State Hospital.
Address: PO Box 2164, Oshakati
Phone: +265 65 221195
Fax: +265 65 330293
E-mail: lorewo@iway.na

Project manager
SINTEF Health Research, Norway
Contact: Tone Øderud
Phone: +47 95154120
Fax: +47 22067909
E-mail: tone.oderud@sintef.no