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Articles from the Wheelchair Foundation headquarters in Danville, CA and major news source outlets.

The Wheelchair Foundation has sent a team to distribute wheelchairs in Lagos, Nigeria with the Healthcare Organization for Africa.

The 240 wheelchairs distributed will mean a new life for people that live in a country plagued by disability. For too many years the relief organizations around the world have tried to get long lasting relief to the poor of Nigeria, only to have the relief supplies not reach those most in need.

The Wheelchair Foundation is working with the First Lady of Nigeria to deliver hope, mobility and freedom to children, teens and adults that could go to school, work or worship, if only for the means to get there.

It is our hope that we can make a difference in the lives of people that can now help others as well as themselves to become productive for their families. Very often the only thing standing between a person that is willing to work and a good job, is a wheelchair.

In a joint effort between the Association of Mobility Providers and the Wheelchair Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities has financed the delivery of 206 specialized wheelchairs to children in Nepal. The majority of the children are victims of Cerebral Palsy, and require specialized wheelchairs.  Daily photographic updates of the delivery mission to Nepal will be posted on the Association of Mobility Providers website.

The Association of Mobility Providers sent an assesment team to Nepal last year to identify the children in need. The Wheelchair Foundation was then approcached for financing of the mission. Ronald McDonald House Charities supplied the funding to the Wheelchair Foundation.

This is a fine example of 3 international organizations working together to save the children of the world.

The Wheelchair Foundation today delivered a planeload of hope, help and independence in Sarajevo, bringing 270 wheelchairs to this rebuilding city. The wheelchairs were primarily given to victims of the mid 1990s civil war at Sarajevo’s Zetra Sports Complex, with the help of General Joseph Ralston, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander in Chief-European Command.

The Wheelchair Foundation, Scott’s Seafood Restaurant, Mayor Jerry Brown, and the Port of Oakland will host a delivery of wheelchairs to needy people at Jack London Square, April 10, 2001 at 1:00 pm.

Scott’s Seafood Restaurant has donated 240 wheelchairs for the needy people of Oakland, which will be delivered by The Salvation Army.

Scott’s has been established at Jack London Square in Oakland since 1976. Owner Ray Gallagher has always given back to the community, and this is just the latest chapter in the story of a commitment to the people of Oakland.

“Through compassionate and humanitarian efforts, Ken Behring is performing an extraordinary service to the people and the government of Nicaragua,” said Eduardo J. Sevilla Somoza, Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United Nations. “By helping people who struggle daily with immobility, he is setting an example for us all.”

Behring received the medal, officially known as the Orden de Jose de Marcoleta, during a reception at the Hall of the Americas at the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. This cocktail fundraiser, which was attended by leaders in the Washington diplomatic, medical and business communities, was organized by Dr. and Mrs. Steven B. Hopping and their daughter, Julia Sacasa-Sevilla. Sevilla Somoza bestowed the award on behalf of the President of Nicaragua.

Recipients of the medal, which is named after a Spaniard who defended Nicaragua’s sovereignty in the 19th century, are honored for excellence in diplomacy and service to Nicaragua’s people and government. The Wheelchair Foundation has already provided 175 wheelchairs to the Central American nation of Nicaragua and plans for more chairs are already underway.