About
​Just Wheels aims to reduce poverty and inequality for people with mobility impairments in the Tabora Region of Tanzania. We achieve this by supporting individuals who are mobility impaired to get mobile and to get educated – to give them the ability to live, work and thrive.
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Being disabled is hard wherever you live in the world but disabled people in Tanzania have it very hard, facing discrimination, poverty, health issues and often not getting the chance to be educated. Just Wheels want to change this – to give people the chance to live a good life and to meet their potential.
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We also support the mobility impaired community in Tanzania, by empowering people to recognise their rights and opportunities and to improve infrastructure to support the needs of mobility impaired people.
Just Wheels works with partner organisations who deliver this work on the ground in Tabora region, Tanzania.
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Just Wheels works to help people with physical disabilities in Tanzania in East Africa.
Being disabled anywhere in the world is hard, but being disabled in Tanzania, which has limited resources and poor infrastructure with many people living in poverty, is really hard.
Just Wheels gives people hope, opportunity and a future.
Partner Organisations
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Deaf Mute Institute of Tanzania – set up over 30 years ago to support deaf children in Tanzania but now working with people with a range of disabilities. The DMI houses our workshop, office and service provision.
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Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) – set up over 30 years ago to support health programmes including wheelchair provision and rehabilitation. CCBRT have supported us with supply of appropriate wheelchairs, assessment, fitting and follow up in line with WHO Standards
Programme 2025
Currently Just Wheels UK provides funds for around 40 wheelchairs per year along with support for all present and
past wheelchair recipients.
We want to support more people. It costs around £250 to assess, make, supply and fit a wheelchair and around £100 per year to provide the package of support around this.
Just Wheels priorities for 2025 and beyond are to:
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Fit, supply and maintain another 40 wheelchairs
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Support the beneficiaries as necessary to access education, healthcare, supplies or emergency funds
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Continue training for the team to WHO Wheelchair Service standards
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Build an accessible toilet block at Mwenge Primary School
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Begin training and preparations for a Parent Care Training programme
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Identify and fundraise for other capital school projects
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Develop sport and wellbeing clubs
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Work with schools to improve infrastructure for disabled children and young adults in Tabora