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Tetra Society of North America is a not-for-profit organization that provides volunteer engineers across Canada and the US to design and construct custom assistive devices for people with disabilities. ==History== The Tetra Society was founded in 1987 in Vancouver, British Columbia, by quadriplegic Sam Sullivan. He recounts feeling trapped – not by his disability but by his inaccessible surroundings: “I couldn't use the washroom, shower, cook on my own. I couldn't even turn the doorknob to get out of my own apartment! It wasn’t long before I found that I was not alone; there were many frustrated people struggling with things so basic that most people would never think twice about them.〔(Sam’s story ) retrieved February 9, 2010.〕” A letter to the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, explaining his situation, resulted in engineer Paul Cermak offering to help. Simple, low-tech fixes to Sullivan’s apartment made a vast difference.〔(Sam Sullivan: Still Reaching ) ''New Mobility,'' August 2006.〕 Word got around, and the demand for similar gizmos led Sullivan to form the Tetra Society. Building on this model, the non-profit now lists more than 300 volunteers in 45 chapters across North America. It states that, over the years, its volunteers have completed 5,000 projects for people with disabilities. Tetra keeps to the formula of sending a volunteer engineer or technician to investigate low-tech but ingenious solutions to an individual’s day-to-day access problems. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tetra Society of North America」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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