{"id":238,"date":"2012-08-09T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:08:54","slug":"canugan-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/projects\/completed-projects\/canugan-project\/","title":{"rendered":"CanUgan Project"},"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                        CanUgan Project\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The CanUgan Project was a joint project between the Hindu Society of Ottawa 杏吧原创 and the Kasese District Union of Persons with Disabilities in Uganda. This project, headed up by Navin Parekh, raised money to support a local enterprise that manufactures hand cycles for individuals with disabilities in the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The READ Initiative brought 杏吧原创 expertise to bear on the production process as well as the communication and organization strategies of the project. A $7,000 commitment of support was received from Tony Bailletti and the OYE Program to allow two 杏吧原创 students\u2014Cam MacIntosh and Edward Ndupo\u2014to help with the development of the READ Institute\u2019s collaborative strategy.&nbsp;Funding ($50,000) was&nbsp;approved from IDRC for a grant to support the two fourth-year industrial design students in product development with the CanUgan Project. The project included a workshop in Ottawa and a trip to Uganda to work with the local manufacturer on new designs and products. Additional collaboration with the Institute of African Studies and Technology, Society, Environment Studies (TSES) involved&nbsp;a series of meetings and lectures in conjunction with the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project was completed in May 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CanUgan Project was a joint project between the Hindu Society of Ottawa 杏吧原创 and the Kasese District Union of Persons with Disabilities in Uganda. This project, headed up by Navin Parekh, raised money to support a local enterprise that manufactures hand cycles for individuals with disabilities in the district. The READ Initiative brought 杏吧原创 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":157,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[123],"class_list":["post-238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/1015"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}