The Terence Mills Trust was set up by Adrian D. Mills in memory of his father. He lives in West Sussex where he runs the Trust, alongside four Trustees.
Due to a extreme sports accident in 1989, Adrian is now a T7 Paraplegic and is confined to a wheelchair. Through his efforts in Wheelchair sports and education, Adrian is now bringing mobility to hundreds of disabled people in Africa by recycling unwanted wheelchairs from Britain.
The Trust is part of a project to establish Rehabilitation and Regeneration in The Gambia, with ideas to expand to other areas in Africa.
The Trust helps to provide Community based Rehabilitaion and hopes to develop links with the UK based charity Motivation - to help people build wheelchairs on the West Coast of Africa.
The Trust is also working to support a para-lympic team for the 2012 Olympics and promoting initiatives to build a National Rehabilitation Centre in The Gambia
Wheels for Africa was started to help the disabled in Africa. It was evident that the disabled people in Africa were not only seen as a minority group but through superstition and stigma, some were being totally ignored. The benefit of making someone mobile improves their chance of survival and provides the opportunity of a healthy life and possible job prospects.
This is seen not just as a health benefit but also as a social benefit, allowing that person to no longer be outcast or excluded from their community.
They can play an active role in their society and hopefully have a voice that will allow other disabled people to have equal opportunities and equal rights to an able bodied person.
Facilities for Disabled persons groups are often the hardest hit when it comes to cut-backs and withdrawal of Government Money they suffer doubley.
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