QuadPara Association Gauteng North

In the QAGN Consitution a Self-Help Centre is defined as the following:

A place where a minimum of five (5) quadriplegics and paraplegics are accommodated on a permanent basis.

The philosophy behind a self-help centre is that the residents are entirely responsible for funding and managing the self help centre and make all decisions in respect of hiring staff and providing for the needs of the residents. The focus is not on providing a “care home” environment, but on giving wheelchair users a place to lead independent lives, hopefully as a stepping stone to people being able to buy their own homes and live entirely independently.

There are fifteen self help centre’s in South Africa to date, each managed by its residents under the auspices of the regional QuadPara Association.

In the Gauteng North Region we have two self-help centres namely:

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