{"id":158,"date":"2019-03-29T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T13:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:38:18","slug":"tricycle-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/tricycle-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"IDRC Design Innovation in Kasese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        IDRC Design Innovation in Kasese\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The focus of this project was to design products for people with disabilities with the intent of assisting them combat extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is an overwhelming challenge for those living with disabilities in the Kasese District of Western Uganda, which is the region where this project&#8217;s efforts were focused. Crucially, this project focused on designing tools, mobility aids, etc.&nbsp;<em>with&nbsp;<\/em>the people who would be using them, not&nbsp;<em>for&nbsp;<\/em>them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project&#8217;s immediate focus helped the researchers involved examine the larger question of how innovation can be an effective tool in terms of attaining direct outputs and outcomes for a specific goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project, which features the work of nine undergraduate students and one master student, is the result of a two-year collaborative partnership funded by the IDRC through the Canadian Small Partnerships Grant. Multiple stakeholders were involved in this project, including CanUgan, a Canadian-Ugandan not-for-profit focused on assisting people with disabilities in Kasese, and Carleton&#8217;s READ Institute, which promotes accessibility both on campus and around the world. Read more about our partners <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/partners\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The focus of this project was to design products for people with disabilities with the intent of assisting them combat extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is an overwhelming challenge for those living with disabilities in the Kasese District of Western Uganda, which is the region where this project&#8217;s efforts were focused. Crucially, this project focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/wheelchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}