Our Projects

We are now working on two key projects that significantly improve the lives of individuals with disabilities and support local medical professionals.

Our focus is on delivering high-quality therapeutic interventions, social support, and capacity-building training while ensuring long-term access to occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and rehabilitation for vulnerable populations in Tanzania.

MOTO also places a strong emphasis on empowering health professionals and assisting youngsters through focused professional development pathways.

Moving Forwards Project

Moving Forward is an essential part of our Community Rehabilitation Programme with a very specific focus: assistive devices. The project specifically focuses on providing custom-made assistive equipment (such as wheelchairs) to promote the safety, comfort, and independence of service users.

The equipment is provided following assessment by qualified therapists, and created by specially trained wheelchair technicians who use local materials to ensure the equipment is durable and repairable locally. This equipment often results in people with disabilities being able to access the outside of their home for the first time in years. It is the difference between being alive and living.

Skill Share Project

Skill Share is the first project that contributes to our Skills and Knowledge Programme. Following our field study in 2021, it was identified that local therapists wished that they had more access to continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities. Not only is this a requisite of being a registered therapist, but it is vital to the confidence and competency of the therapists.

Our Skill Share project aims to provide accessible CPD opportunities for therapists, giving access to learning sessions run by therapists both locally and internationally. We run these CPD sessions in-person, and remotely. We always ensure that any therapist delivering a CPD session is aware of the clinical context of Tanzania, so the information given is relevant and practical.