100 Wheelchairs to the Disabled People at Pengpu Community, Shanghai

October 19th 2011 – With the funding raised by Brits Abroad Shanghai, the Wheelchair Foundation announced the donation of 100 wheelchairs to Shanghai Pengpu Community. Those chairs will be given to 100 disabled people living in poverty, to bring them mobility, freedom, and dignity.

Mr. Colin Behring, Senior Assistant to the Chairman of Wheelchair Foundation, Kenneth E. Behring, Ms. Katy Gow, President of Brits Abroad Shanghai, and Mr. Ru Yaxin, Director of Pengpu Sub-district Office, and representatives from Pengpu Community disabled people, guests from Brits Abroad Shanghai, and Wheelchair Foundation China Office participated in the donation ceremony. After the ceremony, guests visited the Pengpu Community Sunshine Home and Sunshine factory.

This April, Brits Abroad Shanghai held their biggest party to raise funding for the Wheelchair Foundation, totaling 169 wheelchairs! Besides the 100 wheelchairs to Pengpu disabled people, there were 3 wheelchairs given to a town hospital in Hebei province and 66 wheelchairs to Hebei Liming Children’s welfare center.