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Nokia Developer Champion helps South African quadriplegics with phones, training
pkrass | 23 May, 2012 16:17
Nokia Developer Champions are rightly celebrated for their developer skills. But they are also extraordinary people.
Take Simon Botes, a Nokia Developer Champion based in South Africa. Simon recently undertook an epic road trip of more than 5,000 km. He travelled to a farm outside Lyndenburg, in the South African province of Mpumalanga. There, Simon provided seven days of training on mobile phones to nearly a dozen quadriplegics living in a home run by Ama Wheelies, a non-profit organisation that helps people with spinal-cord injuries. The 32 Nokia C5-03 devices he trained them on were donated by Nokia Connects. ‘Helping these disabled people really is a life-changing feeling’, Simon says. ‘I’m glad to be able to help.’
Such was Simon’s commitment and pride at being a Nokia Developer Champion that he had his Nokia Developer Champion t-shirt couriered to the next stop on his driving route when he realised he hadn’t packed it. The next day, T-shirt in hand, Simon set off for the Ama Wheelies farm. When he finally arrived in Lyndenburg, he trained several of the residents and their caretakers to use their new Nokia C5-03 device.
Moses Mlombo is one of the Ama Wheelies residents now using a Nokia phone. Paralyzed from the neck down after being shot in the chest six years ago, Moses uses a specially adapted Nokia C5-03 phone, both to communicate with others and run a small business that recycles printer cartridges. He uses a prosthetic on his wrist to hold the phone and taps on the phone’s keys with a mouthstick. In this way, Moses says, ‘I can still have a meaningful life.’
As for Simon, after his seven-day training session at Ama Wheelies, he visited nearby Kruger National Park to document wildlife species for a new mobile app he’s working on – and to take some vacation time. ‘This was one of the most awesome outreach programs I have helped on’, Simon says. ‘A HUGE thank-you to Nokia Connects...you guys rock!’ We think Simon rocks, too.
Simon Botes, standing in black t-shirt, training Ama Wheelies residents Amos Nkosi (on left) and Bethuel Manyika.
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BlackMwana | 26/05/2012, 03:24
wow nice, good job
well done
dadiaus | 30/05/2012, 21:30
Symo well done, you are making us proud. Hope we will meet once again this year.
nice.............
ziauddinrumi | 02/06/2012, 06:50
that is a nice
Kruger National Park
Infms | 02/06/2012, 16:04
Amazing work Simon! I hope you manage to spot some rhino in the Kruger National Park before they're all gone...
13 rhino were poached in South Africa during 2007
This year the number is predicted to reach 600+
An extremely grim situation indeed.
Thank you for the coverage
simonB | 09/06/2012, 11:49
Just back from an epic roadtrip. 9260.8km traveled by road in tota (including the 4000+ km covered while in the in Kruger Park). Thank you for the awesome blog coverage, much appreciated. The real hero's here are the boys and girls of Ama Wheelies. These severely disabled people prove that in life nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it. I hope that in future we can do more to help these guys to reach new levels.
@dadiaus - Yes I hope to see you later this year aswel. Although Nokia World seems to have died for devs :(
@Infms - Yes we saw plenty of rhino (in excess of 40+ during our time in the park) It was awesome, took lots of pics so that in future people can use my apps to show their kids what rhino's used to look like, before they were poached to extinction. So sad whats happening.
Wonderful site
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chintandave_er | 23/05/2012, 23:42
Nice Work Simon.
Thanks for that.