Posts Tagged ‘rotary club’
Rotarian Friendship A Lasting Legacy
The Gift of Mobility By: Allison Meagher Paoli We all have a story. Actually, we all have many stories; some are happy and some are not, some are of struggle and hardship, and some are inspirational stories of triumph. This narrative is a combination of each of these elements. It is my [...]
Our Continuing Efforts to Help Haiti
A young girl recovers in a wheelchair from the Wheelchair Foundation. January 20th of 2011 marked the one year anniversary of Wheelchair Foundation’s Plane to Haiti relief flight. The opportunity to join among the world’s first responders to the catastrophic Haitian Earthquake, and to be [...]
Chilean Rotarians Find Road to Purpose
When Chilean Rotarians Brigitte Kusch and her husband, Luciano, had the chance to meet Wheelchair Foundation founder, Kenneth E. Behring, at the Rotary International convention in Los Angles in June of 2008, they were thrilled to have the opportunity to purchase copies of his book Road to [...]
Rotarians deliver wheelchairs to Bolivia
Members of Madera Sunrise Rotary and Madera Rotary clubs were joined by Rotarians from Patterson and Sonora to deliver wheelchairs to the physically disabled in Bolivia who need but cannot afford them. Working with the Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Rotary Club, a total of 280 wheelchairs were delivered [...]
Coastside teens glimpse another world
El Granada resident Evelyn Moseley, 16, knew only a little Spanish, but had no problem connecting to the young woman in Mazatlan, Mexico, whom she had just lifted into a wheelchair. In halting Spanish, Moseley asked the Mexican girl about herself — and learned they shared much in common. [...]