FlowTube NewsGraham Watts will share skills in Africa with Wheels for the WorldA sales engineer is set to swap his high-tech manufacturing systems job for 10 days’ customising refurbished wheelchairs in Africa. Graham Watts, who works for the Flowtube division of Flowstore Systems, will be a support technician in Uganda for Wheels for the World, an initiative which helps disabled people in countries where suitable wheelchairs are scarce. He leaves for Africa on April 10. Graham is being supported by Flowstore’s Corporate Sponsorship programme which backs the scheme’s umbrella organisation, the international charity Through the Roof. He will be based in Kampala and the surrounding area where he will be part of a team of six who hope to furnish more than160 people with wheelc airs – for some of the recipients it will be the first time in their lives that they have been mobile. |
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