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2.67. Spinal Cord Injury Resources in MEXICO

 
 
KUXTAL is a DME company located in Mexico City and serves all of Mexico. Contact Page: Contact - Kuxtal (kuxtaldme.com)
 
Garcia Ramos has been using a wheelchair since she was 14 due to a neurological disorder that damaged her spine. The founder of a nonprofit called Mexican Women With Disabilities, she advocates for policy and legislation that advance rights for women with disabilities. In 2017, she represented Mexico at the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
 
 
PROJIMO (Coyotitan) is a community based rehabilitation and education project run by and for disabled people. Its main objective is work with disabled persons and their families to increase their abilities and opportunities as well as help raise the consciousness of non-disabled persons and school children to include disabled person in the life of the community, and to "look at their strengths, not their weaknesses." 

World Access Project
World Access Project donates used wheelchairs from the United States to the indigenous disabled of Mexico, one person at a time.

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