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Delivery To Brazil Features Queen of Spain
Queen Sofia of Spain joined Brazilian First Lady Ruth Correa Leite and Wheelchair Foundation’s founder and primary benefactor Kenneth E. Behring this week in a ceremony presenting new wheelchairs to 40 of Brazil’s neediest citizens. This was the first in a series of future wheelchair deliveries to the people of Brazil by the Wheelchair Foundation, a new U.S.-based nonprofit organization that provides new wheelchairs to people around the world who cannot afford them. The Spanish Embassy in [...]
Wheelchair Foundation
Philanthropist Kenneth E. Behring announced today that he has committed to contribute $15 million toward a new international effort of purchasing and delivering one million wheelchairs in the next five years. Behring said the effort would be organized under the auspices of Wheelchair Foundation, a new nonprofit organization dedicated to providing wheelchairs to men, women and children around the world who cannot afford one. He said that an estimated 20 million people who need wheelchairs [...]