Motivation has 15 regional teams. We donate annually over 1,000 appropriate wheelchairs, respecting the WHO recommendations, with support from donors and sponsors who give to the Wheelchair Fund. We organize mobility and independent living sessions and camps for at least 35 children and adults using wheelchairs, country wide.

Motivation remains a family for 25 youth with medium and severe disabilities taken from Placement Centers. They live in 5 family-like homes. Some can work, with support, in the carpentry or at the occupational workshops, at a car wash for Motivation`s vehicles, in the greenhouses or even at the wheelchair warehouse.

Motivation introduces 3 BodiTrak computerized pressure mapping systems into our support services for wheelchair users. These are used to prevent pressure sores and to correct wheelchair posture.

The #EnAble Parking Campaign to free up parking places for persons with disabilities is present in shopping centers throughout the country.

We organize experience exchanges with foreign partners, to learn about best practices in disability services. The first visits take us to AGAPE Foundation, Sweden, our partner in the donation of quality wheelchairs.

We test a new approach on the provision of socio-professional inclusion guidance for persons with spinal cord injuries. Our approach proposes a complex intervention for reintegration after an accident that results in spinal cord injury. Motivation`s multidisciplinary team (independent living trainer, wheelchair technician, socio-professional orientation specialist) assesses the situation of each person with disabilities, creates an inclusion plan and provides support for achieving the objectives identified together with each client.

Motivation consolidates the internal training program for wheelchair provision and independent living training staff. New team members attend courses on working with people with disabilities and providing appropriate mobility services that meet the WHO standards. More experienced team members attend intermediary and high-level courses that help consolidate knowledge, improve services, and develop mentorship and teamwork practices.

We initiate #EnAble Parking campaign to free up parking places dedicated to persons with disabilities that are illegally occupied by persons without disabilities. Motivation and partner shops make available special parking signs, information leaflets and car stickers for drivers with disabilities and for those without disabilities supporting the campaign.

We create #TeamMotivation, which includes fundraiser-athletes with and without disabilities. We participate annually in at least 3 mainstream sports events, where we raise funds for Motivation`s programs.

Motivation creates regional teams in Cluj, Satu Mare, Constanța and Buzău. We support the creation of 8 social economy entities by some of our regional teams. These provide models of inclusive employment for persons with disabilities, accessible transport services and income generation for social services dedicated to persons with disabilities.

We create and register the Accessibility Map and Mark, as instruments whereby we assess buildings in Romania from the viewpoint of accessibility for persons with reduced mobility. We introduce Gentle Teaching – a new working method for children and youth with medium and severe disabilities – and we train disability specialists on its use.

First edition of the Romanian Disability Gala, organized in partnership with ActiveWatch – Media Monitoring Agency and broadcast by TVR1 on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

The number of Motivation regional wheelchair provision and training teams grows to 12 by adding teams in Prahova, Sibiu, Mehedinți, Galați, Iași, Brașov, Timișoara, Argeș and Mureș counties. Motivation LLC starts provision of urinary management products for persons with disabilities.

We meet Shaw Trust, UK, and start consolidating our long-term strategic partnership to initiate employment services for people with disabilities in Romania.
Motivation initiates the employment program, whereby we aim to facilitate mainstream work inclusion of persons with disabilities.

Motivation becomes part of the World Health Organization working group that develops the Guidelines on the provision of manual wheelchairs in less resourced settings. Two new Motivation regional wheelchair provision and training teams created in Neamț and Bihor counties.
The teams promote appropriate wheelchair provision following the 8 steps recommended by the World Health Organization.

First camps in Văratec organized for children from the IMPACT program and for wheelchair users.

We start building the Motivation camp in Văratec, Neamț county, a wheelchair accessible place we created to give future Motivation beneficiaries opportunities to go out in nature as an alternative way of developing independent living skills, of sharing experiences, building friendships and creating local support groups.

Our first meeting with members of the IMPACT International Alliance, in 2001, leads to initiation in 2003 of the IMPACT Romania Program for 33 children with severe disabilities from Tâncăbești Placement Center, and 4 children with disabilities from the organization SOS Children`s Villages, transferred to the Foundation`s group homes.

We consolidate wheelchair sports by launching the first wheelchair tennis program in Romania, after affiliation to the International Tennis Federation.
We inaugurate the Independent Living Model in Bragadiru – a completely wheelchair accessible house where wheelchair users learned to adapt their homes, to participate in household activities, learned personal care and wheelchair skills.

We create Motivation LLC, a company working in assembly, adaptation and distribution of wheelchairs and other types of mobility equipment.
The profit generated by the company funds social services provided by Motivation Romania Foundation, its sole owner.

Motivation Romania takes custody and renovates the Bragadiru Culture Home, to create the Bragadiru Community Center for Youth with Special Needs. The building included wheelchair accessible accommodation, training rooms, conference hall, physiotherapy and medical assessment rooms, kitchen and dining hall, as well as offices of Motivation staff during 2000 and 2009.

Motivation renovates and uses spaces at the `Horia Hulubei` High School in Măgurele to organize wheelchair skills and independent living trainings there. The active rehab program grows to include camps, seminars and training sessions throughout the country. Motivation Romania`s team members work with more and more wheelchair users.

15/02/1995 is when Motivation Romania Foundation is legally registered. The same year, Motivation Romania team launches the first active rehabilitation program in Romania, after attending a training of active rehab trainers organized by the Association START Poznan, Poland.

During May – September 1993, a team of specialists from Motivation Charitable Trust, UK, creates the first wheelchair workshop in Romania. The local team produced, over the next two years, 300 wheelchairs that were donated to patients at the neurosurgery section of `Bagdasar – Arseni` Emergency Hospital in Bucharest. Between 1994 and 1995 the team created a new workshop, where they produced and donated 100 wheelchairs to children with disabilities at ASCHF-R organization.

The project of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation that set up the first medical and rehab services for persons with spinal cord injuries in Romania, at the `Bagdasar – Arseni` Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, also planted the seeds for the creation of Motivation Romania.