What we do

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.

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.  We give them hope.

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.  

Partner Organisations 2023/24

  • 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.  
  • Just Wheels Tanzania – set up in 2021 and currently building its governance and operations
  • Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) – set up over 30 years ago to support health programmes including wheelchair provision and rehabilitation.  

Current Programme 2024/25

Supporting individuals

Just wheels is currently sponsoring 20 young, mobility-impaired people to

  • receive a high quality wheelchair along with advice and support on this.
  • attend vocational training college to learn vocational skills such as tailoring, brick laying, computer studies or carpentry.
  • learn numeracy and literacy

Supporting the disabled community

Just Wheels is also supporting partnership and capacity building in our partner organisations while building knowledge and expertise in staff and volunteers.  We are working towards a bold, exciting plan for the future.  This will include:

  • Building a Mobility Centre with wheelchair workshop, physiotherapy clinic and training workshops
  • Setting up a sports club for people with disabilities
  • Providing training to staff, teachers and other professionals on working with people with mobility impairments
  • Supporting the local disabled persons organisation